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What sort of immigration policy is producing this nonsense? – politicalbetting.com
What sort of immigration policy is producing this nonsense? – politicalbetting.com
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He was a long-time Gurkha.
In March, at least 10 Nepali guards who protected the British embassy staff in Kabul and were still living in the UK were arrested in a raid at their west London hotel and detained by the Home Office.
'10s of thousands'
'Go Home'
'Australian style....'
'Stop the boats'
The party you supported has pushed such irrational immigration policy. Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak have all played their part. All happy to pander to the Mail, all happy to take the votes.
How can a Conservative party member be so outraged at the culmination of their party's rhetoric‽
The fact remains that we cannot remain an open door. There has to be a set of regulations that works.....
Yes, we need a set of regulations that works. Do you think this report is indicative of something that works? The Tories set the rules. If they're not working, who's to blame?
The fact that you would use such a term displays a deep misunderstanding of the reality.
No one is denying that 'There has to be a set of regulations that works...' but we patently don't have that after 13 years of Conservative government.
Accepting a secret payment to cover up illegal activities is presumably not how lawyers would describe it?
Unindicted co-conspirators is how I would describe the Royals now.
But what if complete control is impossible?
I notice that Starmer has been chiding Sunak for not stopping the boats, and for immigration increasing generally in recent weeks.
Or the other way round.
About 4% of the estimated two million people who do not have valid ID have signed up for a government scheme to allow them to vote.
May's local elections will be the first time all voters in England must show photo ID.
Some 85,000 people have applied online for a free Voter Authority Certificate ahead of the deadline for May's poll.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65389832
The LDs are neutral on it so long as you don't build anything anywhere near it.
It is, however, a pretty shitty thing to do. And might give rise to a separate civil claim between the brothers ?
Or might crown immunity be invoked ?
They should be charged with insulting the public’s intelligence.
https://twitter.com/uklabour/status/1650831421534027778
Somehow, some voters believe that cruelty can make them safer. It never does. because if, as both parties have over the years, you build up an organisation with power over the public - like the home office - filled with people who are willing to convince themselves that things like this are okay, then in the end no-one is actually safe.From them.
Beautiful view though, which was just as well as we were there a long time. The next day we ate somewhere else and the food was fine, so specific to that particular hotel, I think.
https://phophonyanelodge.squarespace.com/
Whether it can be made to work is another matter. My hunch is that the most voters will like this approach in the same way they like sausages; a lot, but only as long as they don't have to see the process to get there. Once small boat migrants turn into people with faces, names and stories, I forsee problems for the Home Secretary. (The Mail, in particular, I can imagine doing a THIS CRUELTY ISN'T WHAT WE CALLED FOR headline. Free onion with every paper.)
(By the way, does anyone know of a guide to seeing some of sub-saharan Africa on the cheap? I'm not likely ever to have the funds for Safaris or tours. But return flights to Nairobi I could manage...)
Starmer is the new Britain Trump.
The US state of North Dakota has enacted a near-total ban on abortions, making it a felony for doctors to administer them in most cases.
The law, signed by Governor Doug Burgum on Monday, creates exceptions if the mother's life is threatened.
But rape and incest victims are only eligible for an abortion during the first six-weeks of pregnancy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65389843
Trump questions why he should participate in GOP primary debates
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3970702-trump-questions-why-he-should-participate-in-gop-primary-debates/
I can understand, and I will share the relief, that people on the Left will feel relieved to see the Tories shoved out of government, but Casino really has little to fear from a Labour government. There will be little of any substance that will be different. We'll have some left-wing performative bollocks to keep the backbenchers happy, instead of the right-wing performative bollocks we get now, but it's not actually going to change anything.
(It would require incredible cynicism to do that as a PM, though... put a complete numpty in charge of a policy with the deliberate aim of discrediting the policy and the numpty. Without precedent outside Michael Dobbs novels, surely?)
We do need to do something about the increasing drug use and -- often connected -- increasing mental illness in the area. (But the famous quip about doing something in "Yes, Minister" may apply.)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/notes/division/5/1/48
I have travelled a bit in Africa, and South Africa apart, there isn't much middle market between back packer lodges and camping and the higher end tourist stuff. I self organised my honeymoon in Kenya for 3 weeks flight only 30 years ago. Be careful in the cities at night, but otherwise pretty safe.
We did this route camping in an old army truck, but that company seems to have moved upmarket. This seems a good tour at the price:
https://www.gadventures.com/trips/kenya-camping-safari/4005/itinerary/
"Section 61 makes it an offence for a person (A) intentionally to administer a substance or to cause any substance to be taken by another person (B) where A knows that B does not consent to taking that substance and where A intends to stupefy or overpower B so that any person can engage in sexual activity involving B."
So it would seem not to be an offence under that statute to spike someone if your intent was just to do so for the lolz, or to take a video to upload to tiktok, etc.
To be honest I would have thought that it was something that would come under common law assault, or similar offence, but maybe I am wrong.
"where A intends to stupefy or overpower B so that any person can engage in sexual activity involving B."
https://news.sky.com/story/almost-5-000-reports-of-needle-and-drink-spiking-made-to-uk-police-in-a-year-12776062
I cannot remember an administration in post war Britain which so comprehensively failed on morality, honesty, competence and basic common decency as Johnson's did.
Just fund the courts!
Eg
"Last year, the Home Affairs Select Committee of MPs recommended that the crime be made an offence in its own right."
https://news.sky.com/story/spiking-would-be-made-specific-criminal-offence-under-labour-sir-keir-starmer-announces-12865885
"In the Nineties, during the Aids crisis, tales circulated in chain-letter emails — because Facebook hadn’t been invented — about people being deliberately jabbed with HIV-infected needles. The content varied, but they almost all shared a structure: a person feels a mysterious jab in a public place; they realise they have been attacked with an HIV-infected needle, perhaps via a note saying “Welcome to the world of Aids!”; and then the victim would later test positive for HIV."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/its-catching/202202/the-british-needle-spiking-panic
Social panics occur against a background of anxiety. After two years of pandemic restrictions, British nightclubs had only just returned to normal in the summer of 2021. Young people had endured isolation, disruption to their education, friendships, and love lives. They had been bombarded with frightening news reports about Covid, and as clubs reopened, there was still a fear of the virus and guilt associated with the possibility that they may catch it and pass it on to a vulnerable loved one. The needle, an object of fear for many people, may represent anxiety about vaccinations and fear of contamination.
As we have seen with the Havana Syndrome panic, anxiety and stress can result in genuine physical symptoms, and this may be part of what’s happening in needle spiking episodes. What they are experiencing is a normal human reaction to stress, possibly exacerbated by the consumption of alcohol. The mythical evil needle spiker preying on vulnerable women joins a long list of phantom attackers that led to social panics: Spring Heeled Jack (1837-38), the London Monster of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Halifax Slasher (1938), the ‘Mad Gasser’ of Mattoon (1944), and the Delhi Monkey Man scare of 2001 (Evans and Bartholomew, 2009).
Yes it was another one of his weird ‘phases’ slotted in between hardcore eurofederalism and rampant neobrexiteering.
It’s a long-running spoof account.
Much of the conversation about the coming Ukrainian offensive seems to be suggesting that the most likely outcome is tactical gains. I don't know how optimistic or pessimistic that is but I'm a bit puzzled. A lot of kit has been sent particularly ground vehicles. But not modern fighter jets and long range artillery. Advancing over the ground will be difficult because of the amount of mining that has been done. Why are we making it so difficult for them? Fear of 'escalation'? Or because we don't really want them to succeed? On the first point, military sites in Crimea have already been targeted so it is hardly a taboo. And we need to understand the logic of this 'escalation' policy. The escalatory weapons are presumably the ones the Russians fear. Weapons that are likely to lead to their defeat. So we won't give them those but we'll do enough so they can give the Russians a bloody nose.
Something else doesn't seem quite right either. Europe has gone from importing 50% of its gas from Russia to 5%. Why is no-one talking about this? Whatever you think of Scholz they've accomplished a lot on that side. And yet no-one seems to want to talk about it. How Russia is losing the energy war. Is this so people and industry don't get complacent and stop minding their usage. It's weird. We should be hammering just what a mess Russia is in economically. The IMF forecasts are absurd and based on virtually no data. How can a country that has lost 2% of its workforce, a thousand major companies and isn't making money on its main export earners oil and gas be keeping its head above water?
Once you are there it is a stupefying country. The Danakil and Erta Ale are in the world’s top 10 destinations for OMFG
But there is so much more. It’s enormous, amazing, ancient. And it can be done so much cheaper than you think. The key is to use good local tour ops. Check their ratings online
He [Sir Keir] said: "It is always difficult to come forward to explain an awful experience to people you don't know. We need to make that easier for people. We will make it easier to prosecute it.
"But I also want to draw attention to it. I want people to be talking about it and knowing about this because for every young woman who goes out this will strike real fear into them."
He went on: "My daughter's 12… but I'm already worrying about just in a few years, I can imagine myself pacing the living room every time she's out, worried. There will be many parents in that situation."
Take the first thing that Keir mentions - it's a massive problem for people to have the confidence to come forward with offences like this to the police, because the track record of the police in dealing with victims of these sorts of crimes (when they're not the perpetrators themselves) has been lamentably poor. I really don't see how a new criminal offence addresses that problem. It looks like displacement activity.
The actual work that would be required to drive up prosecution rates in terms of a culture change in the police, in the CPS, and in the courts, in terms of evidence-gathering, etc - it's all a lot more difficult than passing a new law.
I feel like this is a process that the country has been through several times already, where the government promises to crack down on crime x by passing law y, and several years later, when the situation has deteriorated because the effort wasn't being put into the fundamentals, we're then promised law z to turn things around instead. See also organisational restructuring in the NHS, or schools.
A lot of PBers still call Sunak’s Asylum policy one of his huge wins this spring. To me it’s so patently obvious the mess Sunak has made of asylum policy this year is going to become the number 1 disastrous policy mistake of his short Premiership. My logic goes like this.
What really is the problem - arrivals or inability to process them, and the backlog. You could say “both” - but is it clear the government are focussing on both, making progress on either?
Here’s my claim - the new rhetoric, policy and promise to voters of all boat crossings now considered illegal immigration is incompatible with granting the right to stay here. They have changed the clear distinction all other Tory governments maintained - this is immigration, and this over here is asylum. through the rhetoric and policy they have completely muddled it, certainly in the minds of voters they are trying to win over with it.
changing the rhetoric so clearly to every crossing being illegal means they CANNOT process them. The government cannot now make progress on the speed of processing or the backlog from the boats. Sunak’s government has signed a pact with voters that every boat crossing is illegal immigration, and will be treated as such, and this pact and this promise cannot now survive contact with granting thousands of these claims the right to remain in UK.
Far from being a win, Sunak has been a fool to be a fellow traveler with Braverman and her extremist friends on the back benches with this policy. He just cannot keep the promises he has made to the voters on this. As soon as processing starts granting the right to remain in UK, the voters betrayal anger is going to be far more vicious than even anything Heathener can think up.
The climb up the volcano can only be done at night. Too hot and dangerous otherwise. But you are rewarded
If you can get through Ep1 (brutal, excruciating, harrowing), it looks like it might start to pay off.
Now you could try and shift public opinion as Thatcher did with TINA. Are you prepared to do that?
Ukranian generals seem to know what they are doing. In the last 12 months they have liberated a lot of their country.