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Is this Movie tariff malarkey just another attack on Canada?

Aren't a lot of US productions actually shot north of the border?

Over here, we can refer to it as a tax on James Bond.

Vancouver used to be very popular, but I think it is being use less and less these days as it is very expensive in Canada to do anything. Mexico city I believe is now an epicenter for US tv shows. Basically they go where ever the incentives are best. There are some random small cities in Mid West of US that get loads of usage because those states provided big tax breaks and they cheap to operate in.

Interesting. I shot in both Mexico City and Vancover in the same year and they couldn't have been more different. They were both for US products-Pontiac in Mexico City and Maguires in Vancover. I never thought to ask why we were shooting in such odd locations as they were both basically studio shoots.

The difference though was huge. In Mexico I had a crew of over 60 who were all hard workers if a little crude and half of whom were unnecessary and just there to assist the other 30.

And Vancover which was the opposite. Everything was perfect. It could have been Germany. Smallish crew and nearly new equiptment but with a crew who were positively dangerous some of who would have been sacked on the spot if the shoot had been in England.

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Trump officially entered the psychotic emperor phase. He’s not coming back. The Pope image was it. That was the line. He crossed it and kept walking.

This isn’t trolling anymore. This is clinical delusion. The tariffs on movies. Reopening Alcatraz. These aren’t policies. This is a man deep in a psychotic loop thinking revenge is leadership and trolling is governance.

He’s in a feedback loop with his cult. Every time he does something more insane, MAGA cheers louder. And every cheer convinces him he’s still the chosen one. So he takes it further. And further.

He’s not trying to win. He’s trying to feel worship. He’s not making decisions. He’s playing dress-up in his own hallucination.

And the worst part? His cult loves it. Because they’re broken like him. Because in their minds, every delusion he has is another way to “own the libs.”

This is the loop now. The psychotic, delusional, final act. And MAGA is clapping along like it’s a church revival. No one’s driving the bus anymore. They’re just throwing gasoline and screaming kumbaya and Hallelujah.

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Is this Movie tariff malarkey just another attack on Canada?

Aren't a lot of US productions actually shot north of the border?

Over here, we can refer to it as a tax on James Bond.

They shot X-Files in Vancover in what is a pretty good studio complex though not as big as Shepperton or Pinewood and with crews which don't match the English ones (in my opinion). They also use Toronto to double up as Chicago which probably saves them some money. But there again liverpool has also been used as a substitute for Chicago for similar reasons

Glasgow also. One of the biggest was World War Z where Glasgow stood in for Philadelpha, kept the 'extras' community going for weeks.
No cracks about not much zombie make up needed please.

The timeline goes something like this

2004 Blair allows A8 Accession, saying there will only be about 12-13,000 immigrants coming from Eastern Europe

Hundreds of thousands arrive

2010 Cameron says he will get immigration down below 100,000 a year

It goes up to 300,000

2016 Cameron allows a referendum, saying if Leave wins, "No ifs, no buts", we will leave. In parliament he says he will stay and oversee the departure

Leave wins a referendum which will allow us to be fully in control of immigration policy.

Cameron resigns

Politicians start to say that the result was only "advisory"

2017 GE Both major parties pledge to respect the result of the referendum

2017-2019 Labour's Brexit Secretary Starmer does all he can to block the result of the referendum, calling for a second vote. MP's vote down every deal put to them

2019 Boris wins a landslide on a pledge to "Get Brexit Done". Aha! At last, we are in charge of our own destiny, immigration can be reduced to zero if we so desire

Net migration rises to three quarters of a million and we have the crack cocaine of immigration - the small boats

If any of these politicians, none of whom are far right, had kept the promises they made, Farage would have been long retired. Instead he is about a 25% chance to be the next PM, and people who just wanted immigration capped at a level promised by centrists are branded Nazis and fascists.

If someone in real life broke this many promises to someone, then started blaming them and using their platform to belittle and insult them, surely we would think they were the bad guy. So why is it different here?

Yes, the idea that the nation hasn't continually voted to lower immigration is for the birds. Brexit was a warning shot, I think a Reform majority will be the arrow between the eyes. Labour need to act now or they are staring oblivion in the face as their voters decamp to Reform. I could easily see Reform win a big majority on 35% with Labour down in the mid teens if they don't do anything substantially lower legal immigration and halt illegal immigration and asylum seekers not from Ukraine or Hong Kong, who I think most people agree are welcome.

In future, we will still admit asylum seekers but we will decide how many, when and from where rather than as now a universal right.

I'd rather restrict the right than cap. If we have to cap, so be it, but it doesn't feel good. In the event of a genuine humanitarian catastrophe the cap would end up being lifted anyway.