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What should the govt do about the Rwanda policy in response to Supreme Court ruling?Scrap entirely: 39% (16% of Con 2019 voters)Find another third country: 29% (49% Con 2019 voters)Something else: 14% (22% of Con 2019 voters)https://t.co/t4mzTmyIq5 pic.twitter.com/yMJC7vevkl
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Have you ever been to Rwanda ?
I am surprised Rwanda wanted any part of it. It is pretty offensive to regard Africa as a dumping ground for the unwanted.
They must be pissing themselves laughing. Reverse colonialism, after a fashion.
The less you are actually going to do about X, the more and more loudly you have to talk about it.
Rishi can't change the law, because the Lords can delay anything past the election. And unless the polls are very wrong or something crazy happens, then the policy dies.
So he has to keep saying that the flights are coming soon, honest. Even if it's utterly dishonest to say so.
I don't think it works well; wets hate the language and hard cases hate the inaction. But everything else is probably worse and the only way out is not to start from here.
The french are laughing even more £500m
So £640million for not a lot. That could buy 1 mile of HS2
I don't think people care how it's done. The trouble is that Rwanda was an attempt to dodge (a) and manage (b) by showing them a real risk of (c) via another country - Rwanda.
The only way it can really be done is through domestic law reform, lots of bilateral deals and regional/global deals to redo all the international laws& treaties that currently relate to asylum, which are effectively open-ended.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/aaron-bell
But no-one has updated his Wikipedia page with the news he is climbing the greasy pole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bell_(politician)
This ring was discovered on a woman buried around 1,200 years ago in Birka, an ancient Viking city located 30 km (19 miles) west of contemporary Stockholm, Sweden. What sets this ring apart is the inscription "for Allah" in Kufic Arabic, commonly used between the 8th and 10th centuries. It provides evidence of direct contact between Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate, the third caliphate succeeding the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Delving into the topic, I explored various Arab travelers and their extensive premodern explorations. The most prolific pre-modern explorer was Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Moroccan who is believed to have traversed 117,000 km (72,000 miles)...
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1724917855127216634
Poor dear obviously has never heard of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
It's no wonder their base has haemorrhaged.
.."I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveler in whose companionship I might find cheer, nor caravan whose part I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests...
Most Africans that I know resent the continent being regarded as a dumping ground.
This is what @elonmusk says he endorses That Jewish communities push hatred against white people. (This is a foundation of the Great Replacement Theory/"Jews will not replace us" extreme right).
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1724945764835586193/photo/1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
...Ibn Battuta's claim that a Maghrebian called "Abu'l Barakat the Berber" converted the Maldives to Islam is contradicted by an entirely different story which says that the Maldives were converted to Islam after miracles were performed by a Tabrizi named Maulana Shaikh Yusuf Shams-ud-din according to the Tarikh, the official history of the Maldives.
Some scholars have also questioned whether he really visited China...
...Concubines were used by Ibn Battuta such as in Delhi. He wedded several women, divorced at least some of them, and in Damascus, Malabar, Delhi, Bukhara, and the Maldives had children by them or by concubines.[172] Ibn Battuta insulted Greeks as "enemies of Allah", drunkards and "swine eaters", while at the same time in Ephesus he purchased and used a Greek girl who was one of his many slave girls in his "harem" through Byzantium, Khorasan, Africa, and Palestine.[173] It was two decades before he again returned to find out what happened to one of his wives and child in Damascus...
There's the bones of an article, maybe even a book in this for our resident knapper ?
To me, and I have suffered under it for many years, it is no more appalling than the abatements and tapering that those with in work benefits suffer under somewhat further down the salary scale. Whenever you have a change in the marginal rate it is inevitably going to be higher than the rates on either side of it. The only alternative to a taper is a cliff edge. Not sure that is better.
One PBer last night remarked that they’re turning down work to avoid the £100k trap and 60% marginal income tax rate, plus employer (13.8%) and employee (2%) NI that means more than 3/4 of your day rate goes to the government, and you’re no longer allowed to offset any expenses (travel, accommodation, subsistence) against tax.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1724910188195348828
My Trust is now one of these rated inadequate on safety, mostly due to inadequate staffing by midwives and doctors.
BBC News - Most NHS maternity units not safe enough, says regulator
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67238868
Not that I have much faith in the CQC, but this is a scandal that is systemic, and the numbers of lives lost makes the Post Office look like amateurs.
Politics is hard and he's just not wired that way.
I wonder how significant last night’s rebellion by Jess Phillips, et cetera against Sir Keir Starmer‘s instructions was. If he’s got any sense, he’ll give it a day or so, Theon pquietly reappoint the rebels to their original positions.
I really don’t see Sir Keir as a charismatic leader!
We have just seen an example of this with Brexit.
"International law" like "laws of war" is a chimera, used and abused at the whim of national governments.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_allowance
Anyone remember if South Africa have had a semi final impacted by rain in the past?
As Dominic Sandbrook says, it’s striking how popular vikings are, when they were murderers, rapists, and slavers on a huge scale (there’s even a slave trading game you can play, at a Danish museum on Vikings.)
To do anything else distorts incentives to work, although it might create uncomfortable headlines for our politicians who seem only interested in taking the short-term path of least resistance.
At the time only the top 1% of income tax payers were caught now it seems to be 3-4%...
Sounds reasonable to me.
Edit: Oh, it seems others knew that too.
(The reality is that with the exception of the Sahel and Sudan, that democracy, albeit imperfect, is now the norm across Africa including Rwanda)
I'd vote for him in a trice, if only for his excellent contributions to this site.
Politics is no different.
I have said here multiple times how the Post-Modern Neo-Marxist nonsense of the Jordan Peterson's of the world is just Nazi Judeo Bolshevism repackaged - and that is what Musk is essentially endorsing. The idea that ((someone)) must be behind the bad things happening in the West and the "fall of white people" and that ((someone)) are The Jews.
I doubt Musk will get the same scrutiny as the average random pro-Palestinian protester who calls for a ceasefire or an end to apartheid (and have very little power), despite the fact he is literally the richest man on the planet and meets with heads of states.
He truly is a towering Tory intellect.
From March 2022 - https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2022/03/19/not-again/
Note the last line. Since then there has been the scandal in Nottingham's maternity care - 1200 people affected I understand.
The phrase "lessons learned" now makes me want to vomit.
I expect things will end up back in the SC . Interestingly the new term we might see pop up mentioned by the BBCs Dominic Casciani is the nuclear option “ declaration of incompatibility “ .
If that happens the government will be forced to either remove the UK from the ECHR or drop its boats policy . I expect at that point the Tories will implode , we’ll see a purge of Tory MPs who refuse to vote for that and then it will become part of the manifesto .
Pretty nailed on now to be back as a bookie within the year.
Wasn’t there a big Viking slave market in Dublin?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/16/cost-of-living-crisis-businesses-poverty-winter-companies-charities-gordon-brown
[Charity is the solution. Corporate, especially.]
'Next week the chancellor should announce a root-and-branch review of universal credit if we are to address Britain’s long-term poverty crisis. But this winter, with a new coalition of compassion between companies and charities, we can at least begin to ease the sorrows of Britain’s left-behind millions, relieve a mounting public health crisis, and at last, as more businesses respond, show we really are all in this together.'
Left a question on your latest piece on your sitesite. It was prompted by watchng Warwick Tatfield's testimony yesterday.
When you've a moment....
Yes, it may be technically possible, but is it a price worth paying?
The guy's as much a danger as Trump.
As for the child benefit, that was one of Osborne’s ruses, which I thought at the time was a lot of effort to really annoy the middle classes - but it’s been allowed a decade of fiscal drag at the £50k limit, so it’s now affecting many of the skilled working classes as well.
Starmer wanted to look, once again, as a government in waiting, responsible and a little dull, focused on the political realities. Despite all his sterling work in that direction it appears that quite a large proportion of the Labour party are not quite ready for that and the self indulgence developed in the Corbyn era persists. He will not be a happy bunny this morning.
I need to be off shortly but there are reasons why maternity in particular fails in the UK.
The correct call is to demand
Hamas release all hostages
Hamas lay down their arms
Hamas surrender
Then all Gazans can have a safer life and the Israelis can have security
Now they are seeing that multiculturalism has its downsides - big time
This isn’t really disputed
It only edges into GRT and fash when you go several steps further and claim this is all some mad plan by a secret cabal to “replace white people”
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BDCSP4FG/
If the UK is out of the court then big problems happen with NI, and the EU UK deal . Sunak knows the Tories will implode if he tries to leave the ECHR .
For what it's worth, I think any income or benefit rules that have high marginal rates should be addressed. See also the 55% effective rate for low paid earners on UC, for whom the effect is much more painful than the £100k tax cliff ever was for me when I was impacted through the 2010s
The SC can’t interfere with that Act , but could issue a “ declaration of incompatibility “ .
I have my doubts that the HOL will block legislation even though it can constitutionally as the Rwanda policy was not a manifesto commitment .