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Australia would often tow boats back to Indonesian waters and this obviously caused diplomatic tensions. They’d also do things like provide life boats with a set route back to Indonesia. What you say would happen with the French did not occur with Australian and Indonesian authorities. We’re...

10 seconds to get the ball in the box from throw ins, corners, free kicks and goal kicks, the penalty is a turnover. In basketball there’s a time limit to get the ball in play and their clock stops each time the ball goes out of bounds. Who wants to see players piss about and take a minute to...

£15 tickets did little to sell out v Luton in the Carabao cup. You see people talk about ‘filling out the stadium’ by reducing prices to £35… We‘ve sold out nearly all the stadium for most games. Blues, Baggies and Leicester home games will all sell out despite the £47 ticket (including admin...

Lampard was never going to Rangers, that ship had long since sailed. We’ve seen with Gerrard, Rodgers and Ange that you can dominate the Scottish league, win titles but as soon as you come to the Prem, 1 bad job and your reputation plummets. If Lampard wins the league with us (or just...

It will because what the Human Rights Act did is a) enshrine the ECHR into UK law and b) accepts the rulings of the ECtHR*. The reason the UK Government experienced legal fare with the Rwanda scheme was because of this legal framework. Dismantling this framework and passing primary legislation...

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There’s 10 articles Pete, which of these articles did the UK not adhere too before the ECHR was a thing? The UK first had trials by jury in the 12th century (England at that point). The ECHR is literally based on English and French laws (based on US Dec of Independence, which in turn is based...

Yes it would. I’d actually go one step further and go as far to say that English common law traditions already guarantee all the human rights and liberties outlined in the ECHR. If that’s the case, we don’t need the ECHR then. It’s quite ironic seeing you two have no idea about our history...

Rudoni 100% plays ahead Saka and EMC.

My old flatmate is a Burnley fan and spoke about the rivalry and he seems aware that rivalry is irrationally intense but still buys into it. It sounds like a mental derby. Apparently they close the motorway/A road that connect the two to police escort away fans and it’s common to have 8-10ft...

How does it protect them if it prevents the government deporting violent criminals? Anyway, you could rewrite the ECHR, amend the articles and how they’re applied and you have the same rights. We’re going around in circles from previous convos, the bottom line is that Europe and the ECHR isn’t...

Is this just all a storm in a teacup to you then? That there’s no issue with criminality or welfare dependency. We’re happy to use statistics to demonstrate men are more violent than women and younger people more violent than the elderly and so on… So why is it taboo to point out there may be...

Where was the data sourced from? The MoJ. That think tank mostly uses government sources… If collate a bunch of data from FotMob and present it, I’m the ‘source’ but my data samples come from FotMob.

This question is phrased poorly because refugee status is granted once your asylum claim has been accepted. Given that the UK is an island no one can just cross a border to end up here. Therefore, the principle should be that claims are processed outside the UK. One of issues we’re having is...

Raw numbers? No. As a % of population? Probably also no. The MoJ is not accurate? In fact, the true numbers could be higher because the 'British' will also include naturalised migrants as well as 2nd and 3rd generation migrants. There's also comparative data to draw upon from countries like...

Yes, and the data comes from the MoJ.

Are Ukrainians arriving via small boat? I don’t think they are. Ukraine also banned military aged men leaving the country. So the vast majority of refugees were women, children and the elderly. I have a friend who fled Ukraine and her father was physically stopped at the border and had to...

Via illegal routes, the number should be 0. Even so, crossing two continents and the English Channel to claim asylum is obviously ridiculous. The 1951 Refugee Convention is not fit for purpose if left unreformed. Therefore, the proposal to amend the convention to only allow clams of refuge in...

On the ECHR, it’s not in the UK’s gift to change it. Well it has, polling shows 29% of voters want to withdraw from it altogether. Interestingly, the support for the ECHR is almost unanimously in favour of remain among LD-G-Lab voters (around 85%). It’s a bit more split among Tory and Reform...

Crossing Afghanistan-Iran-Turkey-Greece-France-UK is not exactly ‘feeling for their lives’. The refugee conventions were not made with people picking and choosing which country to claim asylum in. That there is the pertinent point.