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Apart from the fact that this plan is ridiculously expensive it is highly unlikely to prove to be a deterrent. Another five people drowned this morning trying to cross the channel (including a 7 year old girl) so if death doesn’t deter them I doubt if the 0.07% chance of being deported to Rwanda will. For a supposedly very intelligent person, Sunak is displaying an incredible lack of judgement here. The small boats are way down most ordinary people’s list of priorities when it comes to how they will choose to vote come the next election. This seems more about trying to placate the far right of his party when he really needs to be trying to persuade the electorate that he has something better to offer the country than the last 14 years of car crash politics. It’s almost as if he thinks that if he manages to get one plane off to Rwanda everything will suddenly become rosy in the Tory garden. The small boats will not stop. The economy isn’t going to magically bounce back by November. The NHS waiting lists aren’t going to vanish overnight. The industrial unrest isn’t going away anytime soon. He is toast. But he will still hang on to the Rwanda bill as it proves (in his own head) that he is a capable, serious Prime Minister who can deliver well constructed, cost effective and efficiently implemented policies. What it does do is prove that he is none of these things.

If St. George pitched up on our shores today there is a fair chance that he would be packed off to Rwanda with all of the other dodgy foreigners.

Seriously??? We have reached a new low. The only surprise is that it isn’t one of the others who got there first.

For those who understand that there is usually much more to a story than a Daily Mail headline it is worth looking at the full 14 minute video clip or reading the whole transcript between the police officer and Gideon Falter. To reduce it to being about him possibly being arrested for looking “openly Jewish” is yet another example of how the right wing media regurgitate news through their own filter and spew it out as red meat to feed their reader’s prejudices.

This sums up the Angela Rayner situation very well. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65766/no-wonder-the-tories-are-out-to-get-angela-rayner

No peaceful minority groups are fair game and I have never said that they are. You sound more like Weston everyday.

Completely ignoring the fact that there a plenty of openly Jewish people on the protest marches too and that it was the police and not the protestors who took issue with this particular openly Jewish person (who is the Chief Executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism and just happened to be in the vicinity of the march at the time).

What is truly staggering is the way that you take the posts of the people that you have taken a dislike to and reply to things they haven’t written thinking you have made them look silly. You are the one with zero self awareness and you make yourself look silly. So let’s dissect your reply shall we? You say I have demanded more. Where in my post have I demanded more? I didn’t. You made it up. You also made up the quotation “not being enough.” I didn’t say it wasn’t enough. I said it was too little too late. If they had carried out reasonable maintenance over the last 14 years the roads would not be in such a bad condition now and require a greater level of repair. How is it selfish to want well maintained roads? I am not the only person who uses the roads in Kent and to state the obvious, better roads are better for everyone not just me. It wasn’t a random insult. The comment was made in direct response to the poster who called out another poster earlier in this thread about being happy to pay more tax for better services. The poster concerned has a long track record of having an I’m Alright Jack and stuff everyone else attitude. It’s sweet that you try and back up your like minded buddies, but more and more frequently you make Trigger from Only Fools And Horses look like Stephen Hawking during the process.

Ben Kingsley has an Indian father. His birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. As I said about Nelson Mandela, there are some historical characters whose lives are shaped totally by their ethnicity. I think you would agree that Martin Luther King would be in the same bracket as Nelson Mandela. A white person playing the part of a black activist is ridiculous. A black person playing a white English Queen is just an actor playing a role. There is a big difference isn’t there? We have had decades of white actors playing the roles of black people and using make up. I am not going to get my knickers in a twist about a few black actors playing white roles and not using make up.

The government have announced a multi million pound investment in repairing potholes in Kent over the next eleven years. Anyone would think there was an election coming up! The trouble is that it is too little too late. There has been so little investment in the infrastructure over the last decade that the problem isn’t just potholes. The road surfaces are all crumbling and breaking up. You won’t find many B roads that don’t need complete resurfacing and rebuilding of the road edges in Kent. As for taxes, I think any reasonable person doesn’t mind paying a reasonable amount of tax so long as it goes on the things we all need and not into the pockets of the present government and their cronies. It seems ridiculous for the present government to be talking about tax cuts when the infrastructure of the country is in such a mess. The only way they can deliver on that promise is to cut public spending further. That won’t bother the selfish amongst us though who don’t give a toss about anything or anyone else as long as they are ok. Ring any bells? It seems that plenty of people in the UK are public spirited though. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/17/half-public-pay-more-better-nhs-treatment-savanta-poll/#:~:text=Close to half of Britons,enthusiasm for health service reform.

Hardly my own line is it. It is the production team from Wolf Hall who are responsible for the casting isn’t it? Look, it is just an opinion but I can see that it wouldn’t work in certain cases for what are clearly obvious reasons. Would it be better if the actors played it in white face? It wasn’t a big deal when Olivier played Othello in blackface was it? Of course it would happen now but haven’t we grown up a bit and can make the distinction where it would be inappropriate and when it isn’t for certain actors with certain skin tones to play certain parts? Maybe not, but Jodie Turner-Smith (a black actor) played Anne Boleyn in a miniseries and there were no riots in the streets. She said that the aim wasn’t historical accuracy but the telling of an emotional human story.

It’s nonsense. Cultural appropriation has been going on as long as migration. I enjoy eating and making curries, so what? We are all human beings and we all interact and share experiences. When I was a kid everyone wanted a Mop Top cut to look like The Beatles and no mention the cultural appropriation from the Merseybeat scene. If you were white and supported a ‘fro because you liked black music why is that any different? If you are running a drama department in an inner London school, what do you do if you want to put on a production of Henry 1V part 1? Exclude half of your team because they do have not have the culturally appropriate skin colour? I just hope that any future actors who want a roll in a Tudor production take their family trees going back to the Middle Ages along to the auditions so that us viewers can rest easy in the knowledge that the cast is culturally authentic. 😉 It was mentioned earlier about Daniel Craig playing Nelson Mandela. His ethnicity was a central part of who and what he was as a character and shaped his life so no, I don’t think a white person should be playing that roll. A few black actors playing supporting roles in a dramatisation of an historical event from the Tudor era isn’t really comparable but if it upsets people, they don’t need to watch it. Where do you draw the line? You can’t play Shylock if you are not Jewish? One of the actors made a very valid point. She said it is not about her skin colour but what she could bring to the roll as an actor. I look forward to the day when we stop talking about what divides (some of) us and focus on what we share in common. Basic humanity.

What is more concerning to you? The possible religion of a psycho 15 year old or the possible genocide we are witnessing in Gaza? If this boy is found to be a Muslim, does that mitigate the IDFs actions against tens of thousands of innocent civilians?

TBF the point being made here is that some posters have an unhealthy obsession with immediately picking up wrong doing by Muslims whilst completely ignoring it when others do the same or similar. Batman being the main culprit. Who can forget his obsession with Asian rape gangs yet never a peep from him when white people were/are involved.

Not only were the Sydney police quick to dispel any idea that the motive of the attack was extremist terrorism (if anything he was targeting women) but here is the kicker, the one male killed was security guard Faraz Tahir. Faraz was a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan. You won’t hear that from Batman though.