Rudd attacks Corbyn for planning migration fund – then launches migration fund
![Amber Rudd made the attack in her speech to the Tory party conference [Image: Carl Court/Getty Images].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/161006-Amber-Rudd-speech.jpg)
Amber Rudd made the attack in her speech to the Tory party conference [Image: Carl Court/Getty Images (slightly modified)].
Having attacked Jeremy Corbyn for promising the return of a fund aimed at reducing the impact of immigration on local services, she waited a matter of seconds before stealing that very policy.
It can’t be such a bad policy if she’s nicking it!
A top Tory has attacked Jeremy Corbyn for wanting a migration impact fund – seconds before launching a migration impact fund.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd laid into the Labour leader for vowing the return of a cash pot axed by the Tories in 2010.
Labour’s £35m Migration Impacts Fund was opened by Gordon Brown in 2009 and handed money to councils whose services were under strain.
Ms Rudd told the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham: “Jeremy Corbyn wants the Government to bring back a migration fund Gordon Brown introduced after Labour let immigration spiral out of control.”
However, she then instantly said she will push through the Tory manifesto’s £140m Controlling Migration Fund.
Like Labour’s fund, it will be paid to local councils which can then spend it themselves.
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What a Ruddy brainless plonker….
And yet another lying tory
As I understand it, the difference between the Labour policy and the Tory copycat is that under Labour, the funding would be sent to areas where it’s needed whereas under the Tories, councils would have to apply for the funding. What’s the betting that there are criteria involved in the application process that mean that only Tory areas receive funding under the Tories scheme.
The devil is always in the detail.Not comparing apples with apples here are we.
Metaphorically, that’s exactly what we’re doing.
Typical of the last Tory-led government; clueless!