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Jonathan Portes

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Professor of Economics, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. @jdportes.bsky.social

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It is unfortunate for Centre for Migration Control that Rob Bates did not bother to actually read, let alone, understand, the data on which he/the Telegraph based their fake news. As DWP says, *You cannot use these figures for the current nationality of Non-UK benefit claimants." So he did.

It is unfortunate for <a href="/migrationCtrl/">Centre for Migration Control</a> that Rob Bates did not bother to actually read, let alone, understand, the data on which he/the Telegraph based their fake news. 

As DWP says, *You cannot use these figures for the current nationality of Non-UK benefit claimants."

So he did.
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The LIBERAL ELITE don't want you to see THIS VIDEO!! Correction: Matt Goodwin doesn't want you to see this, which is why he's *not* sharing it. Doesn't want to publicise his humiliation 😉

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If Matt Goodwin really thought I'd "lost the argument" he'd be frantically posting the video of our debate 2 weeks ago. Instead, he's pretending it didn't happen and that he wasn't publicly humiliated, and had no comeback at all against the evidence that he'd deliberately lied.

If <a href="/GoodwinMJ/">Matt Goodwin</a> really thought I'd "lost the argument" he'd be frantically posting the video of our debate 2 weeks ago.

Instead, he's pretending it didn't happen and that he wasn't publicly humiliated, and had no comeback at all against the evidence that he'd deliberately lied.
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Bizarre false equivalence from Matthew Syed In my opening I explained, with direct quotations, that Matt Goodwin simply lied, repeatedly, about his false claim about social housing. He could have rebutted this. He chose not to. We know why.