How many shops on your high street are linked to organised crime? How many shops linked to crime gangs are sponsoring visas?
We don't know.
So I've written to the Home Office and asked for the full facts on how high street shops are enabling gang crime and immigration fraud.
Surely if the Home Office knew about it, they would be fixing it.
Round here Trading standards are complaining that they are doing much of the work but don't have and aren't getting the money to pay for the work they do.
Referee has been awful, Paraguay are lucky Germany don't have a Keane type fouler or his leg would have been snapped in half there. Germany absolutely fucked off and rightly so
How many shops on your high street are linked to organised crime? How many shops linked to crime gangs are sponsoring visas?
We don't know.
So I've written to the Home Office and asked for the full facts on how high street shops are enabling gang crime and immigration fraud.
Surely if the Home Office knew about it, they would be fixing it.
Round here Trading standards are complaining that they are doing much of the work but don't have and aren't getting the money to pay for the work they do.
Assuming the Home Office want to take action and haven't been content to turn a blind eye so long as firms were paying Rates etc until the media rose a stink.
How many shops on your high street are linked to organised crime? How many shops linked to crime gangs are sponsoring visas?
We don't know.
So I've written to the Home Office and asked for the full facts on how high street shops are enabling gang crime and immigration fraud.
Surely if the Home Office knew about it, they would be fixing it.
Round here Trading standards are complaining that they are doing much of the work but don't have and aren't getting the money to pay for the work they do.
Assuming the Home Office want to take action and haven't been content to turn a blind eye so long as firms were paying Rates etc until the media rose a stink.
There ought to be a cross-department quick-response system for burgeoning scams/grifts.
Though perhaps too many loopholes need legislation to close, and legislation grinds slow.
Early reports indicate that Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev, who was sanctioned earlier in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War for his ties to Russia through his business in occupied-Crimea, may have been the target of the bombing in Monaco earlier.
Ermolaev was an oligarch who fell out with Z, lost Ukrainian citizenship and became Cypriot.
At least it was in Monaco so not an act of terrorism by Ukraine on NATO territory!
Every single major broadcast news bulletin, BBC, ITV, Sky GBN, I could go on, has led with Andy Burnham's key messages - the decision not to take questions totally vindicated as millions have seen his message and not the usual Punch and Judy show about "who will be Chancellor..." Really important learnings.
Exactly as I said earlier when many on here were saying why is he not taking questions. Make them report on the bloody speech itself.
Not sure I'm keen on the precedent being set here. Doesn't it give another would-be Prime Minister cover to continue avoiding a big question... a question worth five million pounds, one might say.
Italy won the World Cup in 2006, Spain in 2010 and Germany in 2014. Since winning the tournament, between them they’ve won zero knockout games at the World Cup
Italy won the World Cup in 2006, Spain in 2010 and Germany in 2014. Since winning the tournament, between them they’ve won zero knockout games at the World Cup
Suspect Spain are going to sort that out this time
A serious question for you: do you really believe a non-negligible number of non-citizens vote in US elections? If so, how are they able to avoid detection? And if not, what's the rationale for imposing draconian measures?
I think the answer is that we don’t know, but also that many states are utterly ambivalent to the issue, for example by having identical drivers’ licences for citizens and non-citizens but allowing the DL to be used for voter registration.
Technically the PM sometimes lives at Number 11, whose flat is larger. But do they mean Burnham will not even work at Number 10 and will remain in its northern outpost?
He will work at his new Northern Number 10 at least one day a week apparently and will spend every night in Manchester not No 10
Really? Sounds more like he will do a weekly commute to London, stopping over for 3-4 nights, as thousands do.
Which could be a nightmare for those thousands, if the PM is regularly taking up a whole 1st class carriage on a train, with attendant security operation at either end of the route. If it becomes predictable, then the security will have to be even tighter.
There will be a serious conflict between the desire to be a man of the people, and the wishes of those who are paid to ensure his safety.
Legendary pharma industry commentator Derek Lowe says "the Trump administration is trying to destroy federally-funded research in the US as we know it and replace it with cronyism and worse."
And who's not speaking up about it? The CEOs of major biopharma companies.
Lowe calls this "odd," apparently using the word the same way I do. (It translates to "batshit crazy.")
He points out: "(1) the great majority of the employees at these companies came through that exact funding system at some point in their careers, and (2) since the industry depends on the basic science research funded this way to make its own advances in applied and clinical applications."
He’s right. But it is no individual company’s interest to stand up to a corrupt president
Big Pharma are really pissed (American usage) that Trump and Kennedy have no interest in their intense lobbying and special pleading, which has worked for decades until now.
Obviously, in today's modern world, there's no requirement for the Prime Minister to live above their workplace.
If Andy Burnham wants to live in Manchester or Penzance or Stornaway, that shouldn't be any kind of impediment to being able to do the job.
I mean, the King and Queen aren't going to live in Buckingham Palace but use Clarence House and no one seems that bothered. We need to get out of the 20th century mindset of associating places with roles - the world has changed.
Clarence House is a few minutes walk from Buckingham Palace, Manchester is the other side of the country from Downing St
if you lot had not balls up HS2 it would have been a heap closer, your comments about distance being a barrier to effective working highlights just how awful a decision that was
HS2 was never about speed.
It was always about speed, that’s why it’s costing so much money.
Nope its costing so much money because no Tory PM was brave enough to tell Cheryl Gillan No - so most of the money has been spent on tunnels through the Chilterns that require air vents that are more visible than the tracks would have been.
Surely if it hadn't been tunneled underground Natural England would have insisted on 30 miles of bat canopy anyway?
At this point it would probably have been cheaper to dig a tunnel all the way from London to Birmingham.
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This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Come, Armageddon, come
Round here Trading standards are complaining that they are doing much of the work but don't have and aren't getting the money to pay for the work they do.
Though perhaps too many loopholes need legislation to close, and legislation grinds slow.
At least it was in Monaco so not an act of terrorism by Ukraine on NATO territory!
Paraguay!
France
What a day it was to be alive.
I was told she was in the running for GM mayoral candidate
This is up there with our 5-1 win over them in 2001.
Enjoy
There will be a serious conflict between the desire to be a man of the people, and the wishes of those who are paid to ensure his safety.