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Smallbone is more likely to turn up there first, has been on honeymoon. Although reported interest from QPR. Going to be a busy few weeks for Martin and Leicester both bringing free transfers in and getting much more wages off their payroll.

Clearly a good player but the feedback from Sunderland and Ipswich fans about lack of physicality was a concern. We’ve just offloaded Smallbone as he is too lightweight to compete in a central two so bringing in someone where that might have repeated itself might not have been the right move. Good luck to Dan at Rangers though, good move for him and them.

UK is around 5th in the EU broad area and when adjusted for population size falls to 17th comparatively (didn’t say EU zone because of Brexit) https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migration-to-the-uk-asylum/ You can see the growth 2013-24 and the Suella Braverman backlog. Rwanda would never have made even a small dent in it, all optics for Murdoch and co. The appeals is what Mahmood is tackling, whether the IAA tribunals approach makes a definitive difference we will see. Got to be worth trying and reduce legal aid so the activists and law firms are paying a much larger proportion of appeal costs. That might restrict their appetite for the appeals system at recent volumes and instead re-direct more of their resources into supporting settlement of those actually accepted which would be more sensible.

Heard Pompey are looking for a new midfielder. During the WC, I think I’ve found the perfect fit for them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphephelo_Sithole

We’ll find out won’t we? Depends how far Burnham will back Mahmood against their left. Reform are fucked with the Farage bribe scandal, rumours that he may not even stand in a by-election and you saw the state of Tice’s interview with Neil on their settled status plan, no detail or clue whatsoever. Tories couldn’t deal with it before and many of the same personnel. I don’t think any party will be able to stop them coming as @egg has said, in fact I know so. But it’s about what you do when they’re here. This is what Braverman never understood, by cutting off legal routes to act hard for the press, it created an enormous backlog of cases that’s taken years to clear and still a residual 150k.

Best deterrent is quicker tribunals and quicker appeals in a single stage which tbf is what Mahmood is proposing which cuts the typical time from 61 weeks to 24 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-independent-appeals-body-to-speed-up-removals And as @Badger said, restrict legal aid to a much smaller number of cases which appear more borderline (no pun intended).

Nice to see that the UK’s leading anti-immigration party has its house well in order on their policies around settled status.

Just amend the Immigration Act 1971 - would get cross-party support.

Plenty more where that came from I’m afraid

His equally shadowy former bestie I suspect is up to his eyeballs in debt despite all of the side hustle activity and the dodgy Thai £5m crypto donation (or possibly because of)

Today, it’s down to around 1.1bn Dollars, possibly 1.2bn contingent some court cases still under dispute. Plenty more Trump Family asset stripping to come. You voted for it America!

This is why he had to win in 2024 at all costs

The banks do, under the Trump family umbrella.

Peretz fee covered basically, Charles, BBD, Sugawara, Ramsdale if there’s a buyer, Aribo and McCarthy hefty wages gone, Sugawara. THB probably does go but quite a bit of any fee can be re-invested, ditto if there are silly bids for Jandar or Leo.

Pays for Daniel Peretz though and a little bit of Larin. Goalkeeper urgently needed sorting out so that’s a welcome bonus for Saints.