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The water companies are a disaster. Thames is bad enough but South West Water is another level of criminal. The water bills are eyewatering in Devon and Cornwall for supposedly keeping the beaches clean. And there was the Brixham poisoning incident. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d8krmgj9o

The kebab houses, Indian restaurants, Fish & Chip shops and KFCs of Leicester will never forget Joe.

Depends who is coming in. Many churches are only still open due to Polish and Nigerian incomers for work. And most parts of the world, certainly Europe, haven’t flogged off most if not all of their essential infrastructure and failed to translate their oil boom into a sovereign fund like Norway. Add in the debts, Brexit economic impact and yes, sacrifices and compromises are necessary if we are to have a comprehensive health system, better social care and financial provision still when we’re older.

Doesn’t take a lot with the hardest core bits of the UDF or dissident Republicans. Change from Guinness to Murphy’s (which I actually prefer) being served in their local pub is probably sufficient for two full days of rioting, and 3 burned out buses.

Firmly in agreement on the second point. This is where far more volume of tribunals and less judges chairing asylum appeals is inevitable. On the first point, someone can come here for a skilled job, be sponsored to come and the firm either goes pop for reasons none of their making or gets taken over. I’d be uncomfortable if they didn’t have a bit of bridge/safety net until the next role which they should secure with the skills they came in on. Time limited to some extent but if they’re homeless at the end of the month that’s going into America territory. We need to re-skill our own NEETs but it takes time, a lot of coaching and investment, and there needs to be semi-stable jobs to go into. It might help ease some of the resentment though for their parents/grandparents.

Fair enough. As long as enough of the population realise and acknowledge the trade offs needed.

A majority also want a free at the point of entry health service, social care at affordable levels for their folks and to have a state pension if they’re not already OAPs when they get there. Reduce legal migration further and with an ageing population that become impossible in the near future. So they need to decide what’s most important. Having blown several % off the economy witn Brexit from the same part of the electorate, their margin for further error is small. Asylum is where most of us agree there needs to be further reductions.

Absolute mess. Pace may well use that money to pay down some of the debts accrued from their leveraged takeover.

I’ll consult with relevant authorities in Romney Marsh and let you know.

I don’t think you are. Shouldn't be allowed to vote though 😉

Not sure that stands up to objective scrutiny https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yz9pvvwg9t They’ll boot them out on the day of release but the HO won’t show its hand in advance to the activists and lawyers. The people protesting and being arrested/jailed are doing so violently, people aren’t being arrested for banners, chanting unless clearly racist, and lobbying. They’re being arrested for inciting arson attacks on hotels, attacking police officers, setting fire to innocent people’s houses, smashing windows, torching cars, and attacking black and other minority UK-born taxpayers who have nothing whatsoever to do with the original incident. Hell, even the GOP won’t let Trump have his restorative justice fund for the January 6 yobs who attacked police officers. As a final killer point, the people who carried out similar violence in 2011 who were from minority backgrounds received very similar sentences to those being handed out recently from Southampton, Southport, and no doubt Glasgow. Belfast might be a different magnitude.

As a non-Labour voter, I also observe that his government has gone much further in prosecuting people smugglers under new laws, the first prosecutions of which have happened today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yz9pvvwg9t Good that custodial sentences given, I’d like to see them a bit longer still as a deterrent to others and I’d like to see instant deportations on day of release, but I can understand why the Home Office has said they’re considering deportation because you don’t want to give the lawyers and activists any chance to build an appeal. Kick them out first, and make the lawyers cough up which they won’t want to do. As icing on the cake, permanent bans from the UK and much longer automatic sentences if they are caught trying to re-enter the UK.

Human rights law firms and activists would scream but I’ve little sympathy because they’ll lie and tell judges pink is blue when it suits them and their client. There has been some acceleration since Braverman ground the system to a halt but it has to be much faster still, and yes, that has to mean tribunals.

Context dear boy. Trump has done the same over there for their tech sector in parallel with the ICE raids because of bros funding his campaign. I don’t think a 19 year old from Redcar with an U/C in Maths and English will be in the same ballpark.

The loyalist mobs are what Farage and Lowe aspire to. I bet Tommy Robinson was having a right old hand job watching the violence and pure racial hatred. @CB Fry if only it was just a bus being set on fire….although that always excites the camera crews as an image. Trial of the Sudanese man needs to be rapid, and instant deportation on release day.