The political hero of the Home Secretary is Margaret Thatcher. That's a Labour Home Secretary.

We're hearing about plans to dub the boats crossing with migrants, Farage boats, because they have

increased in number since Brexit stopped some of the other routes for people to come legally

to the UK. We have ID cards that are

going to be brought in. Let's not charitably uncharitably call them Brit cards, but there they are,

which are only being brought in, it would seem, to define who is eligible for work and try to weed out

migrants. Is this the country you thought you lived in? It's certainly a

stunning shock to the senses with every single passing day, particularly with the Labour Conference.

So we dissect that and look at the migration proposals from labour and reform and ponder some interesting history that saw the archives of Scotland sink in a boat in the 17th century off the Northumbrian coast with no report available really for the Scottish public.

So that's the headlines.

Here's the podcast.

Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's slightly delayed so that we could listen to Kier Star Wars speech, Leslie Riddick podcast.

Leslie, do you have your phone there with you?

I do because.

Oh, I was just wondering if you could show me the QR code for your brick card so that I can verify your identity before we

begin here.

You wag.

I know.

It's just, I mean, I actually, I just don't know what's going on anymore, really.

And I see people expressing this in all sorts of different ways.

Just, you know, just general shock at the kind of endless string of right-wing kind of authoritarian moves being put up by labour.

I mean, I was half listening and half watching to Sturmer's speech yesterday.

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