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That's ridiculous. Net zero is a pointless pipe dream, and I hadn't appreciated that it had touched the military where it matters. When the battlefield is strewn with bodies and broken equipment, why would anyone give a monkeys about the carbon footprint.

Ah ok, immigrants are welcome but only if they have money. Gotcha.

So foreigners leaving - good or bad? You need to pick a lane mate.

Indeed. This must be a proper conundrum for the likes of Sir Ralph and Osvoldoramo though. Immigrants are going, but less people with a few quid are left - do they cry or celebrate?

That's a very long way to say that you want less immigration, and that more people = more crime. We're going nowhere here so I'll tap out.

Saying that more people= more crime is stating the obvious. That's an inevitability if a growing population, however it grows. I took your original point to be a suggestion that immigrants are more likely to commit crime than non immigrants. If that was your point, it's incorrect.

A percentage of everyone in society will commit crime, and immigrants aren't more likely to commit crime than others. The immigration issue is an issue, but the immigrant crime point is a red herring.

And "angry in a moment" that he chose to involve himself in. Not easy to mitigate for a bloke like that though.

3 years for that charmer.

They're linked only in that some yobs see the immigration issue as a(nother) reason/excuse to be violent. No normal person, with an issue about immigration, links that problem to violence. You've seen the form of some of those toe rags sentenced today. Absolute stains on society who saw an opportunity and took it.

They're entirely different issues, and violent disorder must be addressed strongly, especially if it's possibly the tip of an iceberg.

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I agree that most of us are actually on the same page, albeit we come at it from different angels. And yep, it's incredibly sad, and it's hard to envisage a cheery ending.

I prefer the judge's approach. The police should be protected from violence. Dislike them, sure, hate them if you must, but acting on that with abuse or violence has no place.

I was with you until the last bit. There's no "rather" about dealing with violent protestors, but a necessity.