Chomper Higgot

Oddly you give us a regurgitation of the view from the gutter press. They stoke this garbage to increase sales, the gullible fall for it.

The arguments for a British republicanism do not need to rely on racism, misogyny or any other form of hatred. In truth they’d be far better made without such hate.

Let’s do the math. 40,000 people crossed the channel in the past 12 months. The Rwanda PR stunt allows for 200 of which to be deported to Rwanda. Assuming all 40,000 were caught then the odds of being deported to Rwanda are 0.5%. This is a PR stunt, it has one objective, to distract from the Government’s failings and it’s means of doing so is by enacting a policy based on cruelty. It plays well to people within the Unitary Circle Venn Diagram.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that you and a few others here found Clarkson’s vile comments funny or otherwise excusable. I would have predicted as much.

You’ll need to explain that. It doesn’t make sense. The ruling has no bearing at all on criticism of the Government.

I use the term ‘immigrants’ because includes the whole range from economic migrants, illegal immigrants and legal asylum seekers. The Rwanda scheme applies to people claiming asylum, it is not illegal to enter the UK to claim asylum. I shall not stoop to accusing you of deliberately omitting ‘asylum seekers’ to suit your agenda.

We’ve yet to hear the response of Rwanda’s opposition to this scheme. Those Brits incessantly outraged over immigrants need only deploy a small amount of imagination to figure out there are Rwandans who are not at all happy with this UK Government distraction publicity stunt.

I look forward to hearing how much this Government publicity stunt is costing tax payers. We’ll then get an idea of how much public money the Government are willing to spend to create a distraction from their own failures. I also look forward to hearing the rightwing response when Rwanda enacts the flip side of this deal and starts deporting it’s own immigrants to the UK.

Musk’s main business, and the one he needs to pay attention to is Tesla. He’s very clearly being distracted from his cash cow by Twitter. Perhaps he’s looking for an out so he can cut an run back to Tesla.

‘There will be’. ’Sun-lit uplands’, ‘Jam tomorrow’. There is, economic stupor and growing international irrelevance.

All we need to know now is, which corrupt ‘house of cards’ will crumble. And it’s not in dispute that there is a house of cards assembled from a trick deck.

In reality he’s just taken another brick out of ‘Brand Musk’ on which a great deal of shares are overvalued. He’s playing Jenga with other people’s money.

Experiences differ: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/16/rolls-royce-workers-pay-rise-bonus-goodwood-unite-union

Social security payments are calculated to provide basic and essential needs. Low wages not so.

Unions are doing what they are meant to do, getting better pay and conditions for their members. There’s growing hope that the UK might at last get rid of the low wage economy.

You are comparing apples and oranges. The UK Government Data I have linked is based on adults of working age (16-64), as I clearly stated in my post. The EU data you have linked defines economically inactive as anyone outside the workforce, including infants, children, pensioners etc. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:People_outside_the_labour_force Comparing ‘unemployed data’ is a little more problematic as each nation and indeed different governments within each nation defines unemployment differently. By example, the UK data I have linked is based on adults between the ages 16-64 whereas the EU data you have linked is based on individuals between the ages 15-74. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Unemployment

The UK currently has over ten million adults (age 16-64) who are either unemployed (1.26 million) or economically inactive (8.9 million). And it’s getting worse. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/employmentintheuk/november2022 https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork

And all the economic data.

I’ll let you know once I’m there.

Oddly you missed out the UK’s own extremists. I wonder why?

Once again, I observe the product of a surfeit of black and white war movies. The dominance battle being fought right now is economic, the fight is between three massive economies, the U.S., China and the EU. Luckily the UK has cornered the Turnip market.

If you read my post I was responding to MicMac’s comment that others ‘haven’t even been to the UK post Brexit’. I’ve been, and I’m about to go again. I’ll have a keen eye looking out for ‘Sunlit Uplands’

I’ve been, I had real close look and I’ll be going back for another close look in mid January. I look forward to sharing my experiences of Post Brexit Britain in the middle of winter. More precisely, I’ll be getting a close up look at the Post Brexit NHS in the middle of winter, I’ll definitely report on what I see there.

Hogwash. 1. I doubt there is a British member of this forum who is not personally impacted by Brexit. 2. It would be ridiculous to claim the families of British members of this forum are not impacted by Brexit. My guess is anti-Brexit members of this forum are presenting arguments you can’t deal with so your response is to try and undermine their right to comment. You’re on the run laddie!

I don’t think you’ve thought that out.