This is an interesting paragraph with which to begin an essay.
"I was illiterate until my mid-thirties. I’m 57 now and my first book has just been published. It’s tradition for your publisher to deliver the first few copies from the printer’s press to the author. A local courier, James, delivered a box of 10 last week. It was a joyous moment, to see something stared at on a screen for over four years turned into an object that could be held, flicked through, something I could smell. However, that joy was short lived as James, the 54-year-old courier, was killed for the contents of his van one mile or so down the road two days later. His violent end didn’t even make the local news. Durham police posted on Facebook that two men had been charged with manslaughter and theft. Murders and all forms of crime have become common around here now. It’s the norm."
I am picking up some absolute fury of Brexiteer Tory MPs who went to see chief whip Simon Hart at 5pm tonight about the watering down of the REUL Bill.
Twenty Tory MPs were there to protest. The Chief just listened. He left after 45 mins to go to see Sir Graham Brady, as normal.
Brexiteer Tory MPs cannot understand why the Government has done this.
They point out that not a single Tory MP voted against the REUL ill at the Second or Third Reading.
Two Tories tell me they think the U-turn is part of a deal with the EU for agreeing the Windsor Framework.
The tin-foil wearing MPs might be right but surely the more logical assumption is the REUL Bill would need huge amounts of effort to make it workable rather than a series of banal truisms. We can applaud getting rid of unnecessary regulations but unless these can easily be identified, the bill is mere claptrap.
If it's claptrap, why have the EU made dropping parts of it a condition of their 'concessions' toward the Windsor Framework? The framework agreement is turning into a thoroughgoing disaster. It has already destroyed the NI protocol bill, by which the UK Government would have exercised its legal right to disallow parts of the protocol. Now it's also destroying the ability of the UK Government to overturn EU laws that shouldn't apply to the UK anyway.
That's the conspiracy theory that might or might not be true. Putting that to one side, removing unnecessary regulations is something we can all applaud but someone needs first to identify them, and it is ridiculous to proceed on the basis of an arbitrary number in an arbitrary time with no resources. Likewise replacing those deemed necessary or desirable.
There is a serious "looking down" on apprenticeships, even now.
Somehow that people that do them are less intelligent than people that go to uni, or less qualified. I work with people that have done both, I can categorically say that in almost every way the apprentices are better prepared and do better in the day job than the grads.
EXC: TEN midlands Tory MPs go public with call for Sunak to do more on Levelling Up by the summer - or see them lose their seats with nothing to sell on the doorstep.
So civil servants are now being blamed for the governments inability to scrap all EU law by the end of the year . The Remainer blob has apparently thwarted them.
Or was it the case that scrapping all these laws would have left a legal vacuum which was ignored by Sunak in his desperate attempt to chase good headlines in the right wing press .
We get the picture though , each time this rancid government fails is always the fault of others !
EXC: TEN midlands Tory MPs go public with call for Sunak to do more on Levelling Up by the summer - or see them lose their seats with nothing to sell on the doorstep.
I suspect it will come as unwelcome news to the the largely Labour-voting denizens of the fine city of Nottingham than Ben Bradley is their council leader…
There is a serious "looking down" on apprenticeships, even now.
Somehow that people that do them are less intelligent than people that go to uni, or less qualified. I work with people that have done both, I can categorically say that in almost every way the apprentices are better prepared and do better in the day job than the grads.
Well said. 100% agree. We've got ourselves into an odd situation where people doing skilled jobs and manual labor are somehow looked down upon compared to those that go to Uni.
It's a situation that started under Blair and hasn't much improved since.
So civil servants are now being blamed for the governments inability to scrap all EU law by the end of the year . The Remainer blob has apparently thwarted them.
Or was it the case that scrapping all these laws would have left a legal vacuum which was ignored by Sunak in his desperate attempt to chase good headlines in the right wing press .
We get the picture though , each time this rancid government fails is always the fault of others !
EXC: TEN midlands Tory MPs go public with call for Sunak to do more on Levelling Up by the summer - or see them lose their seats with nothing to sell on the doorstep.
Sounds right. Surely levelling up played a bigger part in Boris and Brexit than dog-whistled racism.
This is an interesting paragraph with which to begin an essay.
"I was illiterate until my mid-thirties. I’m 57 now and my first book has just been published. It’s tradition for your publisher to deliver the first few copies from the printer’s press to the author. A local courier, James, delivered a box of 10 last week. It was a joyous moment, to see something stared at on a screen for over four years turned into an object that could be held, flicked through, something I could smell. However, that joy was short lived as James, the 54-year-old courier, was killed for the contents of his van one mile or so down the road two days later. His violent end didn’t even make the local news. Durham police posted on Facebook that two men had been charged with manslaughter and theft. Murders and all forms of crime have become common around here now. It’s the norm."
This is an interesting paragraph with which to begin an essay.
"I was illiterate until my mid-thirties. I’m 57 now and my first book has just been published. It’s tradition for your publisher to deliver the first few copies from the printer’s press to the author. A local courier, James, delivered a box of 10 last week. It was a joyous moment, to see something stared at on a screen for over four years turned into an object that could be held, flicked through, something I could smell. However, that joy was short lived as James, the 54-year-old courier, was killed for the contents of his van one mile or so down the road two days later. His violent end didn’t even make the local news. Durham police posted on Facebook that two men had been charged with manslaughter and theft. Murders and all forms of crime have become common around here now. It’s the norm."
I am not sure that my current position allows me to comment on this in any detail. Obviously any views I express are entirely my own. That said:
1. The idea that the LJG can remove judges from the sex crimes court without process is a complete non starter. It is not Article 6 compliant. The only reason I can see for putting such an idea forward would be to trigger another fight with Westminster when they were told not to be so silly. And by the way, as things stand every High Court is a sex court because it takes up nearly 80% of the business.
2, The idea of Judge led trials requires judges willing to do them. At the moment judges can hide behind jury decisions which do not require justification and are almost completely immune from criticism or appeal. (Appeals normally turn on the directions given to juries by judges.) Which judge wants to be the first to say that he did not find the complainer in a rape trial credible? For an answer see 1.
3. I do not think that rape cases are poorly investigated. There have been major improvements in recent years, in particular the researching of prior relationships of the accused to look for other complainers and patterns of behaviour. The problem is rather an atmosphere where it takes great courage not to pursue a rape case to the bitter end in a legal structure which makes it very difficult to stop it getting to the jury. Or, being even blunter about it, we prosecute too many cases with too poor a prospect of conviction.
4. It is true that each case turns on its own facts but the key to a jury's decision is what facts they find important. A judge would have a much harder time of it having to give detailed reasons based on the evidence open to analysis on appeal. This may result in a lot more appeals than the current system.
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
In 2021 90.6% of births in Wales were white Welsh , English, or British
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
In 2021 90.6% of births in Wales were white Welsh , English, or British
Well yes wales is substantially more white than england. Personally im proud of the changes in this country and proud of the way the british peoole have accepted it. Onward we go into a better future.
Thanks to Cyclefree for this most interesting -- and important -- post.
And I think she will find this November 1st, 2022 article from my home state of Washington of interest: "SEATTLE - Despite the progress made processing sexual assault kits, Washington's large backlog remains, according to a report from the state auditor.
That backlog existed for years and years, with little attention paid to it by our elected officials.
(Reminder: The 50 states would vary greatly in this matter, as in so many others, so I would expect some to have similar problems, and some to have none at all.)
The latest migration figures due out in two weeks are likely to see record net migration almost double compared to when the UK was in the EU .
Still at least the UK took back control !
I look forward to the right wing press headlines , of course though they’re too embarrassed to say zip now seeing as they duped their gullible readership into voting for the idiocy project .
I am not sure that my current position allows me to comment on this in any detail. Obviously any views I express are entirely my own. That said:
1. The idea that the LJG can remove judges from the sex crimes court without process is a complete non starter. It is not Article 6 compliant. The only reason I can see for putting such an idea forward would be to trigger another fight with Westminster when they were told not to be so silly. And by the way, as things stand every High Court is a sex court because it takes up nearly 80% of the business.
2, The idea of Judge led trials requires judges willing to do them. At the moment judges can hide behind jury decisions which do not require justification and are almost completely immune from criticism or appeal. (Appeals normally turn on the directions given to juries by judges.) Which judge wants to be the first to say that he did not find the complainer in a rape trial credible? For an answer see 1.
3. I do not think that rape cases are poorly investigated. There have been major improvements in recent years, in particular the researching of prior relationships of the accused to look for other complainers and patterns of behaviour. The problem is rather an atmosphere where it takes great courage not to pursue a rape case to the bitter end in a legal structure which makes it very difficult to stop it getting to the jury. Or, being even blunter about it, we prosecute too many cases with too poor a prospect of conviction.
4. It is true that each case turns on its own facts but the key to a jury's decision is what facts they find important. A judge would have a much harder time of it having to give detailed reasons based on the evidence open to analysis on appeal. This may result in a lot more appeals than the current system.
5. Camp Zeist
The problem with a lot of these date rape cases is its a he said she said situation. Very difficult to prosecute without witnesses. 80% of cases in courts sex crimes is unbelievable though.
Dr. Foxy (and others) may find this of interest: Recently, I learned that 1 in 10 students who complete their course work to be a doctor in the US, are unable to find a "residency" to finish and become an MD.
(A residency takes place in a hospital, and can be consdiered an apprenticehip, for those who favor this kind of training. Considering the insane work hours, and the mistakes that they produce, I have come to think of residencies as extended "hazing" times.)
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
Most of the children of people in the White Other category will regard themselves as White British.
The latest migration figures due out in two weeks are likely to see record net migration almost double compared to when the UK was in the EU .
Still at least the UK took back control !
I look forward to the right wing press headlines , of course though they’re too embarrassed to say zip now seeing as they duped their gullible readership into voting for the idiocy project .
Yes like i say immigration will soon become an irrelevance anyway. Sure red wall racists might bitch and moan but they wont do anything and many will die off soon.
Those racists who voted for brexit to halt immigration prove how stupid they are now european immigration has been replaced by immigration from india and pakistan.
Not a Pyrrhic victory. More like a Pyrrhic stalemate defeat.
Russian brigade flees from Bakhmut, claims Ukraine A Russian army brigade has fled from Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces claim. They released a video purportedly showing the 72nd Separate Motor-Rifle Brigade abandoning its positions on the southwestern outskirts of the city. Moscow has not commented on the reports of the withdrawal of the brigade, the type of which is typically formed of several thousand troops. The claims appear to back up comments made by the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said yesterday: "Our army is fleeing. The 72nd Brigade pissed away three square kilometres this morning, where I had lost around 500 men." A Ukrainian brigade confirmed his report "is true". https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-victory-day-counter-offensive-12541713
I don't really understand what Prigozhin's game is with his constant commenting. I get seeking to pressure other factions and the proper army, but he seems to update on pretty much everything.
Serious incident. Does it involve a woman? Find vaguely sexual image.
Phwrorr
I like the juxtaposition that can occur, such as this one which at first glance might make you think Lily Collins is a people smuggler that must be stopped.
EXC: TEN midlands Tory MPs go public with call for Sunak to do more on Levelling Up by the summer - or see them lose their seats with nothing to sell on the doorstep.
I'm sure he would find some pork to barrel if he could.
Apprenticeships for teachers: Recently, noticing the very large proportion of US teachers who quit the profession early -- one common figure is 44% in the first 5 years -- I have begun to think that we should consider a mix of class work and apprenticeships in teacher training. It might go something like this: Half a year of classes, followed by a half a year of working as an assistant, then repeated, at least once. That way those who aren't suited for the profession can learn that quickly, and try something else.
(I would, of course, start with a small experiment, and then scale up if the results were good.)
Those racists who voted for brexit to halt immigration prove how stupid they are now european immigration has been replaced by immigration from india and pakistan.
Those racists who voted for brexit to halt immigration prove how stupid they are now european immigration has been replaced by immigration from india and pakistan.
Why is the stupidity theirs?
Recent immigration has also come from Ukraine. Hong Kong and Afghanistan
Those racists who voted for brexit to halt immigration prove how stupid they are now european immigration has been replaced by immigration from india and pakistan.
Why is the stupidity theirs?
Because they thought voting brexit would curb immigration. It was obvious it would only affect white european immigration.
I think it's pretty disgraceful how certain users are going after a man who is clearly grieving after just losing his wife.
Sorry, I haven’t followed the PB discussion, but the implication of your argument is high profile - and powerful - politicians should be exempt from criticism after bereavement?
I think it's pretty disgraceful how certain users are going after a man who is clearly grieving after just losing his wife.
Sorry, I haven’t followed the PB discussion, but the implication of your argument is high profile - and powerful - politicians should be exempt from criticism after bereavement?
For a period of how long?
It was an inane comment as Drakeford was going to a meeting and working
I think it's pretty disgraceful how certain users are going after a man who is clearly grieving after just losing his wife.
Sorry, I haven’t followed the PB discussion, but the implication of your argument is high profile - and powerful - politicians should be exempt from criticism after bereavement?
For a period of how long?
I'm not sure on the time but Gordon Brown was allowed to grieve for example, with a lot of respect from the Tories at the time.
I think it's pretty disgraceful how certain users are going after a man who is clearly grieving after just losing his wife.
Sorry, I haven’t followed the PB discussion, but the implication of your argument is high profile - and powerful - politicians should be exempt from criticism after bereavement?
For a period of how long?
I'm not sure on the time but Gordon Brown was allowed to grieve for example, with a lot of respect from the Tories at the time.
Drakeford is working and as first minister he was challenged over his and labour's relationship with Plaid as any journalist would do in the circumstances
Sympathy was expressed across the political divide to him at the time of his wife's death on the 28th January 23
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
Most of the children of people in the White Other category will regard themselves as White British.
My own son, who was born in Germany to a German mother, always ticks the White Western European or White Other box in preference to the White British box, on the grounds that he is only half British.
If anyone is looking for either the barmiest post on the internet or some great parody I think I just found it.
A scenario sadly overlooked by the fine proprietors of PB.
I have had a horrible thought. We are all pinning our hopes on a hung parliament, but… what if Starmer is planning a coalition with the Tories? Everything he has done and is doing suggests so. We then have a de facto one-party fascist state.
Not a Pyrrhic victory. More like a Pyrrhic stalemate defeat.
Russian brigade flees from Bakhmut, claims Ukraine A Russian army brigade has fled from Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces claim. They released a video purportedly showing the 72nd Separate Motor-Rifle Brigade abandoning its positions on the southwestern outskirts of the city. Moscow has not commented on the reports of the withdrawal of the brigade, the type of which is typically formed of several thousand troops. The claims appear to back up comments made by the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said yesterday: "Our army is fleeing. The 72nd Brigade pissed away three square kilometres this morning, where I had lost around 500 men." A Ukrainian brigade confirmed his report "is true". https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-victory-day-counter-offensive-12541713
I don't really understand what Prigozhin's game is with his constant commenting. I get seeking to pressure other factions and the proper army, but he seems to update on pretty much everything.
I think that he is cornered.
Either he is being deliberately setup to fail (got too powerful in the Game of Thrones), or he is about to become the scapegoat for Russia’s next military disaster.
When looking at the situation, many people assume that the Russian command must be unified in their determination to beat Ukraine. They are more concerned, I think, in surviving and thriving…
It reminds me of the story of the Sandhurst war games of Operation Sealion. When the young officer playing Goering was asked what the hell he was doing, he replied that he was playing Goering as trying to be the winner in Berlin. Actually successfully invading Britain was secondary.
If anyone is looking for either the barmiest post on the internet or some great parody I think I just found it.
A scenario sadly overlooked by the fine proprietors of PB.
I have had a horrible thought. We are all pinning our hopes on a hung parliament, but… what if Starmer is planning a coalition with the Tories? Everything he has done and is doing suggests so. We then have a de facto one-party fascist state.
If anyone is looking for either the barmiest post on the internet or some great parody I think I just found it.
A scenario sadly overlooked by the fine proprietors of PB.
I have had a horrible thought. We are all pinning our hopes on a hung parliament, but… what if Starmer is planning a coalition with the Tories? Everything he has done and is doing suggests so. We then have a de facto one-party fascist state.
For the record, I haven’t believed Dialup to be old CHB for days now. It’s 100% someone else horsing around, most likely the sites creative writing wunderkind Leon, dancing in rings round us and laughing - like the pisky he is.
It’s interesting how, communicating only via posts to a forum, and most of you incognito behind an avatar, but after certain amount of posts, the consistencies or inconsistencies in character and imposters so clearly stand out.
New piece in @prospect_uk arguing that changes in electoral geography at the local elections suggest Labour is on course for a parliamentary majority, even if their poll lead narrows as expected:
New piece in @prospect_uk arguing that changes in electoral geography at the local elections suggest Labour is on course for a parliamentary majority, even if their poll lead narrows as expected:
Good grief, I read this entire piece without realising it was written by David Willetts. It's much better than you think and I may have misjudged the author.
For the record, I haven’t believed Dialup to be old CHB for days now. It’s 100% someone else horsing around, most likely the sites creative writing wunderkind Leon, dancing in rings round us and laughing - like the pisky he is.
It’s interesting how, communicating only via posts to a forum, and most of you incognito behind an avatar, but after certain amount of posts, the consistencies or inconsistencies in character and imposters so clearly stand out.
It’s elementary really. CHB never had so much to say across so wide a range of interesting topics. Does “I ran over a squirrel once and just drove off” sound like a real CHB post, or apisstake? Frustration and provocation from CHB was more heartfelt/emotional - and often recognisable from space - though clunking, not nimble and playful like all these peculiar comments.
Like this
effectively a smoking gun - placed in plain site so it would be found. When did CHB ever have such a well honed ironic sense of humour like this? And why no “30 point lead nailed on”
Imposter Syndrome is all “flirting with the edge” thrill game to some people.
This is an interesting paragraph with which to begin an essay.
"I was illiterate until my mid-thirties. I’m 57 now and my first book has just been published. It’s tradition for your publisher to deliver the first few copies from the printer’s press to the author. A local courier, James, delivered a box of 10 last week. It was a joyous moment, to see something stared at on a screen for over four years turned into an object that could be held, flicked through, something I could smell. However, that joy was short lived as James, the 54-year-old courier, was killed for the contents of his van one mile or so down the road two days later. His violent end didn’t even make the local news. Durham police posted on Facebook that two men had been charged with manslaughter and theft. Murders and all forms of crime have become common around here now. It’s the norm."
New piece in @prospect_uk arguing that changes in electoral geography at the local elections suggest Labour is on course for a parliamentary majority, even if their poll lead narrows as expected:
Good grief, I read this entire piece without realising it was written by David Willetts. It's much better than you think and I may have misjudged the author.
Harlan Crow didn’t only give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Supreme Court Justice… he also gave over $450,000 to Republicans sitting on the Judiciary Committee that oversees the courts.
New piece in @prospect_uk arguing that changes in electoral geography at the local elections suggest Labour is on course for a parliamentary majority, even if their poll lead narrows as expected:
Good grief, I read this entire piece without realising it was written by David Willetts. It's much better than you think and I may have misjudged the author.
"Adjoa Andoh's 'terribly white' coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
Thousands of complaints were filed about the remark, which the Bridgerton star made when she appeared on ITV's live coverage of the King's coronation celebrations. Acknowledging the backlash in a radio interview, she said: "I think I upset a few people.""
Good. People are getting fed up with such banal and stupid commentary.
It's on its way out, I think.
She had a point though.
I'd suggest that the top 10000 most powerful people in Britain are more racially diverse than any other large country in the world except perhaps Brazil. Non-white people haven't been in Britain in large numbers for very long. Of course the royal family is largely white.
Yes the uk is becoming a very diverse society. Latest census shows white british down to 73.5 % of population of england. White british births in england and wales down to 58% of population in 2019 extrapolating likely 54% now. And white british births likely a minority by 2027. At this point the die is cast and arguments about immigration become redundant as 30 years on white british will be a minority even with zero immigration. To their credit the british people have taken such changes with remarkable tolerance.
Most of the children of people in the White Other category will regard themselves as White British.
My own son, who was born in Germany to a German mother, always ticks the White Western European or White Other box in preference to the White British box, on the grounds that he is only half British.
That's probably the exception to the general situation.
Odd how certain refugees get safe routes and welcomes and others don't. Surely can't be down to skin colour.
Like Hong Kongers you mean?
Yes, this year’s immigration numbers include a lot of HKers, who are basically British under the 1997 agreement, and nearly 250k Ukranians, the vast majority of whom are women and children sheltering from the war, and who intend to return there as soon as it’s safe to do so.
Those racists who voted for brexit to halt immigration prove how stupid they are now european immigration has been replaced by immigration from india and pakistan.
Why is the stupidity theirs?
Are you defending racists?
I tend to agree with our Russian? (no capital letters) friend that racists are stupid, period. I suspect he is alluding to the idea that if racists didn't want European immigration they probably want Indian Sub-Continent immigration even less, due to their creed and colour bigotry surpassing their hatred of those who they consider are merely non-English first language-foreign, availing themselves of schools, hospitals and GP surgeries the length and breadth of Britain.
The poster was very specific when he referred to "racists".
Comments
Standard Daily Mail.
Serious incident. Does it involve a woman? Find vaguely sexual image.
Phwrorr
Also about how press intrusion ruined his relationship with Caroline Flack.
"I was illiterate until my mid-thirties. I’m 57 now and my first book has just been published. It’s tradition for your publisher to deliver the first few copies from the printer’s press to the author. A local courier, James, delivered a box of 10 last week. It was a joyous moment, to see something stared at on a screen for over four years turned into an object that could be held, flicked through, something I could smell. However, that joy was short lived as James, the 54-year-old courier, was killed for the contents of his van one mile or so down the road two days later. His violent end didn’t even make the local news. Durham police posted on Facebook that two men had been charged with manslaughter and theft. Murders and all forms of crime have become common around here now. It’s the norm."
https://unherd.com/2023/05/durham-has-become-a-land-of-zombies/
"Durham has become a land of zombies
Politicians have left my people to die
By Pip Fallow"
Somehow that people that do them are less intelligent than people that go to uni, or less qualified. I work with people that have done both, I can categorically say that in almost every way the apprentices are better prepared and do better in the day job than the grads.
EXC: TEN midlands Tory MPs go public with call for Sunak to do more on Levelling Up by the summer - or see them lose their seats with nothing to sell on the doorstep.
Or was it the case that scrapping all these laws would have left a legal vacuum which was ignored by Sunak in his desperate attempt to chase good headlines in the right wing press .
We get the picture though , each time this rancid government fails is always the fault of others !
It's a situation that started under Blair and hasn't much improved since.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/10/labour-defends-complaints-process-after-three-year-delay-in-harassment-case?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I wouldn't say that was so common as to be the norm.
And I think she will find this November 1st, 2022 article from my home state of Washington of interest:
"SEATTLE - Despite the progress made processing sexual assault kits, Washington's large backlog remains, according to a report from the state auditor.
The State Auditor's Office (SAO) found the state has greatly improved tracking and processing of some 9,000 untested sexual assault kits, but the backlog still sits at around 6,000."
source: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/report-washington-cleared-one-third-of-its-untested-rape-kits-but-large-backlog-remains
That backlog existed for years and years, with little attention paid to it by our elected officials.
(Reminder: The 50 states would vary greatly in this matter, as in so many others, so I would expect some to have similar problems, and some to have none at all.)
Still at least the UK took back control !
I look forward to the right wing press headlines , of course though they’re too embarrassed to say zip now seeing as they duped their gullible readership into voting for the idiocy project .
(A residency takes place in a hospital, and can be consdiered an apprenticehip, for those who favor this kind of training. Considering the insane work hours, and the mistakes that they produce, I have come to think of residencies as extended "hazing" times.)
(Mock the Week reference...)
(I would, of course, start with a small experiment, and then scale up if the results were good.)
BBC News - Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price quits after bullying claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65553413
Labour have got their mojo back.
Tough ask for the tories at the GE.
He was asked by ITV Wales and they commented on his evasiveness which is relevant to those of us living in Wales
For a period of how long?
Sympathy was expressed across the political divide to him at the time of his wife's death on the 28th January 23
A scenario sadly overlooked by the fine proprietors of PB.
I have had a horrible thought. We are all pinning our hopes on a hung parliament, but… what if Starmer is planning a coalition with the Tories? Everything he has done and is doing suggests so. We then have a de facto one-party fascist state.
https://twitter.com/Psythor/status/1656275500589891591?cxt=HHwWjoC-7dvyovwtAAAA
Either he is being deliberately setup to fail (got too powerful in the Game of Thrones), or he is about to become the scapegoat for Russia’s next military disaster.
When looking at the situation, many people assume that the Russian command must be unified in their determination to beat Ukraine. They are more concerned, I think, in surviving and thriving…
It reminds me of the story of the Sandhurst war games of Operation Sealion. When the young officer playing Goering was asked what the hell he was doing, he replied that he was playing Goering as trying to be the winner in Berlin. Actually successfully invading Britain was secondary.
Everyone agreed that was historically accurate…
Only, "stallion" here is pronounced with the Welsh LL.
It’s interesting how, communicating only via posts to a forum, and most of you incognito behind an avatar, but after certain amount of posts, the consistencies or inconsistencies in character and imposters so clearly stand out.
New piece in @prospect_uk arguing that changes in electoral geography at the local elections suggest Labour is on course for a parliamentary majority, even if their poll lead narrows as expected:
https://twitter.com/StephenDFisher/status/1656328475207163904
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/61357/keir-starmer-labour-party-electoral-geography-polling-locals
CHB never had so much to say across so wide a range of interesting topics. Does “I ran over a squirrel once and just drove off” sound like a real CHB post, or apisstake? Frustration and provocation from CHB was more heartfelt/emotional - and often recognisable from space - though clunking, not nimble and playful like all these peculiar comments.
Like this
effectively a smoking gun - placed in plain site so it would be found. When did CHB ever have such a well honed ironic sense of humour like this? And why no “30 point lead nailed on”
Imposter Syndrome is all “flirting with the edge” thrill game to some people.
Isn’t it Leon?
The piece is written by Stephen Fischer:
Of course they don’t want to subpoena Harlan Crow.
https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1656395347378475008
I read the article by Stephen Fisher:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/61357/keir-starmer-labour-party-electoral-geography-polling-locals
And then I read another article by David Willetts in the same magazine:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/61297/the-populism-of-matthew-goodwinand-its-many-problems
And I conflated the two in my head.
Hmph
[returns brainy card to pile]
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/summary-of-latest-statistics
I tend to agree with our Russian? (no capital letters) friend that racists are stupid, period. I suspect he is alluding to the idea that if racists didn't want European immigration they probably want Indian Sub-Continent immigration even less, due to their creed and colour bigotry surpassing their hatred of those
who they consider are merely non-English first language-foreign, availing themselves of schools, hospitals and GP surgeries the length and breadth of Britain.
The poster was very specific when he referred to "racists".