GoldstoneVintage
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Either is correct. The Labour Party is a singular entity so 'is' is fine. However, we can also take it to mean all the people within the party so 'are' would also make grammatical sense.
[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
- Aug 8, 2005
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Absolutely no chance. It needs a radical re-think on so many issues. All we are getting is the same old tired stuff but done to the extreme. Taxing people more money has never been proven to be the way to grow an economy. Throwing more money at the NHS has never worked either. It all needs a big change. Labour doesn't have the ability to do that sadly and I doubt the Tories ever will either.
- Aug 8, 2005
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And as a % of land space?
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
- 21,810
This country wont be turned around until we rejoin the single market so no.
Rdodge30
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- Dec 30, 2022
- 648
Totally agree
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Just 5% of this country is built up and urban.
- Jul 10, 2003
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- Aug 8, 2005
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According to GOV.UK, 10.5% of England is built-up, and 8.7% is developed
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
Labour 
- Aug 8, 2005
- 27,244
I genuinely don't think there is a political party in current existence that can turn around the world problems that are impacting all Western society.But Nige will ?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Research by Sheffield University disagrees.
Has 92% of the country not been built on? - Full Fact
Estimates range between 88% and 99.9%. It also depends on if we include gardens and “green urban” areas.
fullfact.org
nicko31
Well-known member
The UK was persuaded to commit an act of self harm in 2016, it then doubled down on it in 2019.
The problem Labour have boxed themselves into a corner. If they're not bolder to face down the fashy right, it could well play into their hands
- Aug 8, 2005
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Your growth is also nearly 3 years out of date (Graph showing the percentage of refugees received in each EU/EEA country between 2013 and 2022, excluding countries with a population under five million), and of course doesn't take into account those not known about.
- Oct 17, 2008
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That graph is as a percentage of population, with only France and Germany having comparable numbers or higher in Germany’s case. Added to the fact that by virtue of being an island, the vast, vast majority of those we take in have travelled through several other countries in order to reach the UK.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Which they are allowed to do, according to the United Nations convention 1951, as signed by Sir Winston Churchill.
But it’s ok, the majority of these small boat folk won’t work for cash in hand jobs, down at the carwash, work the gig economy delivering food barely earning a minimum wage, no they will get work in supermarkets, working for organisations that will slice off a little bit of their salary to pay into UKPLC thus giving back a contribution to the thousands of £’s that the UK will gave and will give over the coming years, please tell me they will get proper jobs paying tax, please
Yes i know a small percentage will
- Oct 17, 2008
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I wasn’t questioning their legal right or their intentions, just pointing out that a smaller population country with less burden on their stretched public services such as our NHS and housing shortages like we have, can afford to take a lot more people as a percentage of population than we can.Which they are allowed to do, according to the United Nations convention 1951, as signed by Sir Winston Churchill.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Over 200 different nationalities work in the NHS including asylum seekers who have been cleared to work.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,878
No, that's completely wrong.