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FYI: "Up North" is not the middle of nowhere. It is very nice, and in so many ways much better than "down South".

Just for etymological clarification: "Nazi" is an old German term to describe slow witted peasants/yokels.

But we can spend multi- millions trying to send a couple of hundred to Rwanda.

Didn't Nige warn us that 77 million Turks were waiting to come here ? That was in 2016, so the population has probably increased since then. If people believed him then, they will believe Cruella now.

I wonder if she saw that coming ?

If we let in 437 thousand legally each year, it is more than a new Southampton that is needed.

I entirely in agreement with you, but I don't trust Politician's Promises. Particularly when they are talking about things planned for at least 20 years hence.

How are the 437 thousand paid for ?

There is a very long and convoluted road between signing an agreement in a principle and laying a keel, ( or however you start constructing a nuclear submarine ), especially as there will be multiple elections and changes of political direction in all 3 countries involved in the intervening years. This "good news" may simply be just another example of "jam tomorrow". When I can stand on our sea wall and see the new ships sailing out into the bay I will know it has actually come to pass.

Soggy, they want to play their childish playground game, based on a deliberately misinterpreted phrase, because it deflects their own opinions.

Yet the thing that is overwhelming our domestic services are the 30k or so crossing the channel in boats.

The deal seems to be that Australia will buy 3 American subs in a few years time. In a parallel stream, the UK and Australia will begin design work on a new class that will start construction in the late 2030s and enter service in the mid 2040s. That is hardly going to guarantee jobs in Barrow over the next 15 years or so.

American estate agents https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64897161

According to the Home Office less than 50 thousand have crossed the channel in small boats in the last 12 months, that is at best less than 5% of immigration into the country over that period. If immigration is really a problem, they are 'fixing' the wrong thing.

In the last few years, excluding Ukrainians fleeing the war, the 3 largest nationality groups of immigrants are Indians, Pakistanis, and Poles, none of which groups cross the channel on small boats, all of whom are legally entering the country. How many times under the Tories have we had "the solution" to immigration, only for it not to deliver and have to be returned to the drawing board ? This current attempt smells of "Tell a lie, make it big, keep on saying it".

Boat

I don't think I know any "International" women, as far as I can deduce all those I know are British. However, my wife's books sell around the World, does that count ?

Jonnyboy - please explain the laughing emoji. Did I write something amusing ? Or inaccurate ?

They might be if it weren't for Politics, ( or Religion ). To quote Winston Spencer Churchill, "...democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all the others that have been tried....".

Was Desert Storm initiated as a genocide ? Was it a war to occupy and assimilate Iraq, and erase it from history ?

Whataboutery is alive and well. Congratulations.

Fernandes is the biggest cheat in the PL, and that is quite an acheivement given the other challengers for the crown.

Just watched the whole John Stewart program. At the end of the interview with the Oklahoma Senator he asks "Does training with guns make you safer ?", to which the Senator replies "Yes". JS then aks "And you would remove that as mandsatory ?", "Yes". "So you are making us less safe ?", "No". JS concludes with "Are you familiar with logic ?". Earlier in the show they say that in States that reduce controls on gun ownership the rate of per capita gun deaths increases, including the rate of civilians shot by Law Enforcement. Yet the answer is more guns and less regulation. Lunacy.

If only Elon hadn't made so many IT staff redundant.

Guns