I think we forget just how tight the labour market was after COVID. Loads of people in service type jobs (bartenders etc) went into education or starting coding (or Onlyfans), EU migration dried up a… (View Post)

With perhaps a provision for a time-limited increase in numbers from a specific catastrophe, subject to a vote in parliament. Ukraine, Gaza, Hong Kong, Myanmar etc etc (View Post)

You don't need a 100% success rate, just enough to alter the risk/reward for c80% of migrants. It might not even need that; the smugglers currently enjoy scales of economy so if demand falls enough y… (View Post)

Is there an issue with our prevailing southwesterly wind? If we dump migrants in life rafts just off France and they get blown into the shipping lanes, we just give the RNLI more work to do. (View Post)

Think they've got distracted. The people who used to chop down ULEZ cameras are now painting roundabouts instead; not a bad outcome if you ask me. (View Post)