I want one, and the T-shirt too.
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Not that sort of beer, surely?
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All I want for xmas is a Farage Guillotining T-Shirt 
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ftfy 
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The people responsible for it have this to say (statement at the bottom of their web page).
By way of consolation RedMolotov will sell you this one
Be careful there though. They have hundreds of funny tees and before you know where you are that’s your whole morning gone, not to mention tens of pounds.
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Has always looked…
Haha there’s no situation she can’t make infinitely worse
Who do I want to advise me on culture? An Actual Fucking Nazi ldo
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To suffer such a lack of conscience is a mental health issue.
I really like having Kemi as Tory leader, because the cunts are entirely unelectable while she’s in charge
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Wow, it was already quite a wild ride, and that’s one of the more insane updates it could have taken.
I kind of agree with this. There should be exclusions for those working in the health and social care sector or asylum seekers.
I’ve worked and lived in a few other countries and would never have even thought of trying to get social housing or benefits.
It does seem strange to me that you would go to work in a foreign country knowing that you can’t afford to pay for accommodation.
If we exclude key workers and asylum seekers I wonder how many foreign nationals that leaves in social housing ?
I assume that people in social housing have only managed to get it by convincing their local authority that they really need it. If they need it (they’re unwell, or just old, or have kids to care for, or are domestic abuse victims, or whatever) but are excluded from it because they’re foreign nationals then what are they supposed to do ? Sleep rough ? (If they could afford private rental then they wouldn’t need social.)
I suspect that this isn’t really a housing policy. I suspect it’s a “force the buggers to go ‘home’” policy. Maybe there’s a case for that. The world has lots of poor people. The UK can’t provide for all of them so why should some ‘unfairly’ get our help ? It’s a complicated argument and I don’t know where I stand on it. But we should at least be honest about what we’re proposing to do. Simply suggesting that turfing foreigners who are genuinely needy out onto our streets won’t cause problems of its own is too naive to be credible.
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It’s one of those policies that you can immediately see serious issues with. Shall we evict the Windrush immigrants? Your call on NHS is dead right. What about kids, we evicting them now?
Obviously we should be building more houses, and more social housing, but planning and NIMBYism stops a lot of this. In the absence of good policy, this kind of sticking plaster quickly becomes, well, septic.
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Correction: The BBC post above says asylum seekers are already ineligible for social housing (with a few exceptions e.g. if they’re also domestic abuse victims). Refugees are eligible though. Apparently most of those who are in social housing now are Afghan or Ukrainian.