The Burnham Years - Can the new(ish) broom sweep clean?

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:

We should stop all foreign aid until we clear our national debt 

ESPECIALLY the billions wasted on the stupid defence of the Ukrainian regime 

Why is it stupid ?

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:

In the space of barely 48hrs, Britain has announced plans to subsidise European students, gift 30yr visas to migrants entering the country illegally & offer verbal & likely financial restitution for a slave trade it ended 219yrs ago.
 

Behold the most generous doormat in the world.

The funding for EU students is contingent on the UK being included in an EU industrial bloc and thereby avoided additional costs and tariffs.

The 30 years is the time an illegal would have to be in the country before qualifying for Indefinite Leave to Remsin - not a visa.

There won't be restitution for slavery.

Edited 14 hours ago by badgerx16

[Weston Super Saint]

8 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

The funding for EU students is contingent on the UK being included in an EU industrial bloc and thereby avoided additional costs and tariffs.

The 30 years is the time an illegal would have to be in the country before qualifying for Indefinite Leave to Remsin - not a visa.

There won't be restitution for slavery.

Other than those points, the high IQ society was spot on again!

[Osvaldorama]

11 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

The funding for EU students is contingent on the UK being included in an EU industrial bloc and thereby avoided additional costs and tariffs.

The 30 years is the time an illegal would have to be in the country before qualifying for Indefinite Leave to Remsin - not a visa.

There won't be restitution for slavery.

If you are a sane, rational person who can perform simple maths and cares about the economy of their country and the future of the people within it, then you should be livid with the government this morning.

There is no part of the proposed EU reset terms, that you should be remotely happy about. The entire deal is giving the EU what it wants, and dressing it up as a benefit for the UK when it is anything but.

- Promising to not deport EU criminals
- Paying billions a year to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe
- Subsidizing EU students to study in the UK, costing hundreds of millions a year
- Putting UK laws in the control of the EU again, with no say at all from Parliament
- Adding hundreds of millions of costs onto imports from non-EU countries
- Making imported EV cars 30% more expensive, to help EU car manufacturers
- Giving 80-100,000 extra youth visas a year, increasing competition and driving down wages for our unemployed youth
- Stopping checks on imported agrifoods, increasing risk of diseases currently rampant in EU livestock entering the UK

All of this with the reason of making exporting food to the EU easier, which we do virtually none of and never did, as we are an island that consumes more than it produces.

It doesn't matter if you ultimately want to rejoin the EU or not. This isn't about that. This is about an atrocious deal and our atrocious government. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Osvaldorama

[badgerx16]

33 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

If you are a sane, rational person ........
. 

 

Rules you out.

[egg]

1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:

If you are a sane, rational person who can perform simple maths and cares about the economy of their country and the future of the people within it, then you should be livid with the government this morning.

There is no part of the proposed EU reset terms, that you should be remotely happy about. The entire deal is giving the EU what it wants, and dressing it up as a benefit for the UK when it is anything but.

- Promising to not deport EU criminals
- Paying billions a year to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe
- Subsidizing EU students to study in the UK, costing hundreds of millions a year
- Putting UK laws in the control of the EU again, with no say at all from Parliament
- Adding hundreds of millions of costs onto imports from non-EU countries
- Making imported EV cars 30% more expensive, to help EU car manufacturers
- Giving 80-100,000 extra youth visas a year, increasing competition and driving down wages for our unemployed youth
- Stopping checks on imported agrifoods, increasing risk of diseases currently rampant in EU livestock entering the UK

All of this with the reason of making exporting food to the EU easier, which we do virtually none of and never did, as we are an island that consumes more than it produces.

It doesn't matter if you ultimately want to rejoin the EU or not. This isn't about that. This is about an atrocious deal and our atrocious government. 

 

If you stripped out the heavy adjectives and polemical style, you'd probably get some reasoned feedback on the substance of that.