ecuk268
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
ecuk268 replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
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If you are healthy and have a balanced diet you shouldn't need anything else.
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Ryan Garner - Interim World Title fight - St Mary's 20th June
ecuk268 replied to Dman's topic in The Saints
Grandson got a selfie with Oriol Romeu. -
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Ryan Garner - Interim World Title fight - St Mary's 20th June
ecuk268 replied to Dman's topic in The Saints
It's listed on one of the Hesgoal sites but that's illegal. -
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
ecuk268 replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Disappointed to see that independant candidate Paul Gould didn't get more coverage either. He got 8 votes. -
Found this guy who does a report on each game from a US viewpoint. I found it quite amusing. Soccer Guy France Soccer Club recover from a lame-ass first quarter to go take the W against Africa, as the Soccer Cocks show why they're widely anticipized to go rival the USMNT in this World Cup World Championships of the world. Africa dominized the first quarter, and shoulda got the go-ahead in overtime before some guy messed up with the soccer goal interior wider than a big-ass Texan ranch. After the halftime show, the Cocks showed why they are so hard to keep down as Kylian Mmmbop, playing like a total jackass in the first quarter, woke up and started trying real hard. After an African deefense guy messed up with his depossession slide, it looked like he was gonna go get the deathstrike, only for the referee to go take a look at the Go Take Another Look Tablet and decide he took a voluntary simulization plunge. Kinda mad, Mmmbop dusted off his cleats and, just a minute later, put the first stain on the sheets. Africa tried real hard to get the equalization and looked like they had got it when Sorrymiss Jackson inserted from a cute angle only for the denial flag erection to deny him. With the completion whistle approaching, Des Champs dipped into the sub shack, sending on Bart Cola. It didn't take long for Cola to go prove he's the real thing, adding a second goalshot with a wedge kick over the goaltender. Africa inserted a constiptation goalshot in overtime, but Mmmbop had the last say, detonizing a cleat rocket of French fury right into the upper ninety from real faraway land, sending the guys up in the bleachers into raptors.
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Great second half with both teams going for it. None of this passing across the back rubbish. France looking strong.
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Obviously attracting the intellectual elite of Makerfield.
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Don't sit on the fence. Tell us what you really think.
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I'd call it pragmatism.
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Is it possible that Tonda could do something with Downs to make him into a half-decent player? BBD seems to have done Ok at Derby and scored goals for Blackburn, maybe he'll improve here under a different coach. We still need to strengthen whatever happens to those two.
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I'd be happy with a freeze which, allowing for inflation, is about a 3% reduction.
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Probably, yes. What often gets overlooked is that they pay more in fees than UK students so they are of significant benefit to the UK economy not just in fees but in their everyday living expenditure.
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Not quite that simple. They don't all graduate and go home. A student visa is for 2 or 3 years. About 60% get new visas for post-graduate studies or employment. After 5 years you can apply to remain permanently, Prior to 2023 some were dropping out of their degree programs and getting work visas as it was seen as an easy route to staying permanently. This loophole has now been closed and they need to complete their degree if the they want a new visa.
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If they weren't then the last year's net migration figures of 171000 would be -229000.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
ecuk268 replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
If you look at the destinations of all those leaving, the top 3 countries are Poland, Romania and Bangladesh. Many who came in pre-Brexit have made a bit of money and are going back home where they will have better standard of living than their peers. -
"Robert Jenrick has asked who granted the Belfast attacker a five-year visa to remain, before quickly realising it was him. Jenrick was the government’s Immigration Minister in 2023 when the attacker was granted leave to remain in the UK, a fact he appears to have conveniently forgotten over the last 48 hours. “Oh shit, that was me wasn’t it?” said former immigration minister Robert Jenrick. “Okay, well that makes things slightly tricky for me. I’ve literally just announced Reform would ban visas for anyone coming from Sudan. People are going to think I’m lying again. We don’t want that, do we? “I suppose if I keep lying they might just believe I had nothing to do with letting the attacker stay in the UK in the first place. Yes, that’s it. I’ll act like it was nothing to do with me, and that it was the current government’s fault it happened. Reform voters will believe any old tripe we feed them. “In fact, I bet if I’m really savvy about it I could probably convince Reform supporters that Keir Starmer was actually immigration minister in 2023. Obviously a quick Google search and having the slightest bit of common sense would expose my lie. But hey, that’s not something I really have to worry about with this lot, is it? “God, I love Reform.”
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Over 400000 are students without which a number of UK universities would be in financial trouble.
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It was a lot more fun than the season that followed.
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Rupert Lowe seems to think so.
