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The word long-term Brexiteers (not the people who turned up in June 2016 to vote, I mean the ERG/UKIP/old Labour left) have never understood, from the ones in my life I suspect coming from a position of English exceptionalism in some cases, is reciprocity. It’s a fundamental aspect of any trade negotiations and although May botched the initial Brexit mechanisms, she did at least understand this and had no hand to play after the 2017 GE. Even if a larger US deal was ever in the offing (it wasn’t), UK already had redlines around food standards and the NHS which would be unpalatable to the overwhelming majority of the public to waive. And it wound up large Commonwealth players such as India for obvious reasons, another deal which might have moved the dial.

I see your point and it makes sense, and an independent judiciary is a key part of democracy. But that was a shocker, it’s the worst recently but far from the only out of touch/soft sentence that’s had to be overturned in rapid order.

One of the opportunities might have been a blockbuster trade deal with India, but as May found out that would’ve meant large scale freedom of movement from Modhi’s perspective which would have been unacceptable to most Brexiteers. The US bumper trade deal was never on the table, certainly not with an America First MAGA nor with the Democrats really. Look at the state of the Australia deal - UK farmers lost out on that big time (you’d think they’d learn their lesson…). The biggest trade deal and market by far was the one we were already in on the single market discount rate Thatcher negotiated at her peak before the early onset kicked in later in the 1980s.

Agreed, the boys committed an adult offence, one of the most serious, and will remain a danger for quite some time, if they ever aren’t frankly. The judicial system needs to firm up around this aspect. As for the original judge, this is why there needs to be a retirement age of 65, perhaps up to 70 for exceptional judiciary, because we can’t have doddery old men sitting on important cases like this who can’t keep up with social change. And yes, I’ll probably be one of those at some stage!

Good https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4807pn9lo

Who on earth knows why - not even sure he does. As for the smuggler, get a police van and Home Office out to Leicestershire tonight (if he hasn’t gone to ground), cuff him for the UK offences he’s committed since he snuck in, and the Home Office can tell him his asylum outcome on the way to the airport on a one way trip. His expensive lawyer will go nuts but there’s nothing he can do about it. And if the authorities say it can’t happen that quick, some of my family are ex-police and it can and has happened like that.

You’re correct in what you are saying and its another Brexiteer fuck up https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-migration-people-smuggler-leicestershire-b3007344.html However, now the Home Office knows about him, it is refusal and straight out. No appeals process neccessary as he’s already got the French conviction of over 12 months on record.

Naughty boy is Pards, can also be lip read calling Pellegrini a fucking old cunt

If you meant county rather than country, then he could hide and lay low but people know what he looks like and he’s clearly been active for a while. Pay people for info and they’ll grass him up. UK law is quite clear - more than 12 months in prison overseas = automatic asylum refusal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye9zn0y1ro Now get him gone.

Ours at the back is more like hay.

Should be a pretty quick refusal given what’s emerged. Yes, you’d want cases like his well-researched and diligence but with an 150,000 backlog plus what’s coming in new, it would take a very serious amount of resource to go into that depth on a material segment of the cases. If the public are prepared to fund it up front to save on reduced asylum cases later on and a greater deterrent, fair enough.

Dragan might have made a cock up not at least putting him on gardening leave pending the FA outcome.

Talking out of your arse: - GDP per capita 6-8% lower - Investment 12-18% lower - Productivity down 4% https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/ Oh, and go and tell Phil Ward from Eskimo and tens of thousands of other business owners that Brexit wasn’t an economic project or didn’t have an economic impact. I’d hear the laughter from Bristol https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv0m164m84o

I’d imagine Fernandes as well as the sell on is funding the last of West Ham’s installments on JWP. I know of last summer they still owed quite a bit of the total.

Martin Lewis highlighting the madness of the energy/water markets. We spend the time shopping around but are in the economic position to do so. People on low incomes/young families/unwell people don’t