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I'm pretty centrist but agree with some of the right policies such as asylum cases being decided at the British embassy in country not in UK, effective deportation of failed cases and end of visas etc. But what deters me from voting for parties that support such policies is the fear I'll be enabling and normalising the thin end of the wedge and within ten years cnuts like that guy will be ministers.

True true. Life is so swings and roundabouts. Whereabouts in Morocco btw? I was in Agadir in February / March and it was perfect weather. Sounds unlucky to be cold in June.

Oh okay. You love immigrants and want more? We really need to keep that desertfication and glacier melt going if so

Maybe turn the thermostat up a bit?

What baffles me is how Whitey and the other fingers in the ears think that showing the climate has always changed is some kind of gotcha - as if one excludes the other.

I thought you didn't like immigrants.

Same here in Mid Sussex. Very Tory seat but LDs probably have the best chance of overturning that. The LDs, like the SNP for example, are concentrated in a small number of seats rather than spread thinly across the country. They will almost certainly get more seats with 11-12% vote share than Reform with 17-18%.

Look at the guy laughing. He deserves to lose his job for that.

Politicians have different PR people now 😁 https://x.com/i/status/1791079690834198974

At risk of sounding out of touch Who is Emily Hewartson? doesn't come up on google apart from a random with a few hundred followers

Depends whether its a euphemism or not. If so Truss is bound to win, based on her track record.

He made a jokey twitter post along the lines of "milkshakes bring everyone to the party". Just the right way to deal with it tbf

The convention amongst both parties used to be that you increased spending when the economy was in trouble and paid back the debt accumulated when it was doing well. Since 2008 we've had the financial crash, covid and the energy price shock along with almost zero growth - and yet people still expect tax cuts

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I like the Netherlands, it has a lot going for it . That said I had a Dutch gf who always preferred it here to home (Hoorn). Depends where you're trying to get her to move to I guess. I had a American work colleague from Monterey in California (very nice) who asked me if Hull was as nice as her English bf promised her....

Could well be true. In a big organisation the CEO doesn't have day to day contact with operations and really only knows what they're told by their Directors and Heads, particularly on a specialist issue like software functioning and forensic accountancy .

True, whilst everybody already knows Rwanda is a debacle and mortgages are going to be painful actually watching the car crash might be worse.

Wouldn't surprise me. Feels like most of Government policy since Cameron has been about self interest.

July seems a weird choice from the Tories point of view. Surely November would have been better - lower inflation baked in, interest rate cuts, recovery from recession etc. Unless he just wants out and his new employers wont wait...

American voters are definitely more polarised than Brits. They seem more tribal, like football fan loyalty. The floating voter group is a smaller than UK imo. That reflects the parties and candidates though. There is nowhere near as much policy overlap between Democrats and Republicans as between Tories and and Labour

This guy has some interesting things to say..... https://www.noelcasler.com/news/full-disclosure-an-interview-with-noel-casler

Nah. If he were the right amount of sensitive he would have understood what she was going to say and she needn't have wasted her breath. Bstard.

I've driven in Naples a few times, which is supposed to be the worst Italian city for driving. Treat it like an Italian queue in a bank or shop. There will be lots of cutting in and what Brits see as bad manners but they arent trying to kill you, dont want to crash and are mostly good drivers. It's also nothing personal. If you want a relaxed holiday just let them go, don't be too macho or competitive about it. The North is more 'European' than the south but out in the country anywhere its absolutely fine. I think you only need a fiscal code if you're an Italian citizen or resident. If you're being asked for one sounds like you are booking on a local site. I've always found Rental Cars or holiday autos to be good. If you take the rental cars comprehensive insurance you dont have to worry about any surcharges after - although wherever I go I always make a show of videoing the whole car in front of them just in case.