The pointless, performative cruelty of Jack Straw replacing cash for asylum seekers with Sodexo vouchers was so bad even Blunkett felt he had to scrap it - but there was a campaign against it too - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1916...

If Shaheen is an activist, then Goodwin, whose whole twitter feed is extreme and inaccurate far right nonsense, is definitely an activist. If Goodwin is an academic, then Shaheen, who has done more recent and more credible academic work, is an academic.

Amongst pro-migration voters - i.e. Labour's base last year and the easiest votes to recover in future - support for this policy is...0%. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero.

Goals don't come more open than this. Labour should be attacking this proposal at every opportunity.

Just to ring the changes from having Farage top of the list?