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We should be all over this. Doug Out! 😡

This is my best guess too.

Why not indeed? Yes it’s legal to enter a country by any means when seeking asylum.

Guess we’re all George fans now, sorry Saddle

Are we pretending we don’t know how international asylum works again? Good luck arguing with every other country that because you’re not bordering a nation you shouldn’t take any of its refugees.

It always boosts GDP, another person is some small amount more economic activity. The profile has shifted since Brexit IIRC, some immigrants produce below the average pulling per capita down, some don’t. Mostly Europeans and Asians good, Africans and Middle East bad in simple terms. But...

Then you aren’t looking. We literally just did the biggest deportation in history to Brazil. The cost is because the Tories just stopped processing people so they piled up. If you want to reduce illegals immigration you kinda have to be able to tell if someone is illegal.

I think there’s an input and an output problem. At the front end workers don’t earn enough because we aren’t productive enough. At the back end accumulated wealth isn’t taxed well enough to either directly improve productivity with govt spending or encourage investment in the right areas. And I...

The media is terrible for just taking the latest figures and making a story off them instead of looking long term. We have had negative growth since 2008. That’s the story. Problem is it’s the story is almost every western nation. And no one knows what to do about it or what the Yanks have done...

Depends on if he delivers. Nothing happening now will impact the next election. We know this because we had literal riots and constant bad news at the start of the Tory government and they got an increased vote at the next one.

The absolutely so put up median wages. It’s the standard way to measure wages. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2023 Most people accept GDP per capita at least removes the slight of hand of importing...

You keep over stating one off costs. The £12bn was from 2019-2025 and has mostly been spent less than half is still to be spent and is an international commitment. You’ve already had it explained why £3bn isn’t a figure in perpetuity.

Then they’ll get voted out.

What’s Baker like? Right sort of player? Enough quality on the ball?

Expectation level set. Will now be sad if this doesn’t happen.

2 years ago three of them played for us!

One of two things for me: either they’ve genuinely not got an idea what to do other than balance the books and hope for the best, or they think get all the bad stuff out the way early while there’s no opposition and an election is years away. But does feel like if it’s the latter they’ve...

Personally I don’t like banning one of the few public festivals this country has, but agree sentences should be tough and something has to be done longer term to make it safe. Can we send the CBS SAG over to advise? What’s the story behind these stabbings? Gang related? Something else?

Yeah she’s seen all the Cornetto Trilogy, just had never heard of Spaced. But she’s foreign so wouldn’t have got c4, just movies in cinemas.

Watched Hot Fuzz with the missus last night and she’s never seen Spaced so starting that today.