Chomper Higgot

Which, while no fan of the Tories, is the core of my objection to videos being posted as comments. A video might contain footage that is presented out of context or out of time sequence, images and sound might be manipulated and any other of myriad editing and selection. So I simply don’t watch videos that are presented as comment. I’m more than happy to debate comments made and much prefer to see claimed ‘facts’ backed up with links to credible sources, but videos, no thanks.

Off you go again, there’s no end to your ‘smelling fish’.

Election officials can do that.

I I said in the earlier Musk Twitter thread, Musk has bought himself a headache. The business revenue comes from advertising, who but the ‘My Pillow Guy’ wants to see their business advertised alongside hate mongering, lies and misinformation? Take a Tylenol Elon.

Oh dear. So no new Audi for you then.

Whenever the subject of learning English comes up I’m always mindful of the fact the thickest Englishman I know speaks perfectly understandable English. I’d go as far as to say English fluency is what enables a lot of really dim people to reveal the absence of their intellect. English is not difficult to learn for those motivated to do so.

Yes we are. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you. Thoughts are by their very nature a private thing.

You are free to think what you like.

I know life’s tough in the UK right now but are there no other options between health professional and criminal?

It wasn’t rigged.

It’s not just any 8 people is it? And their report follows the finding of the then USAG, Trump’s hand picked man for the job, Bill Barr.

Alternatively the Republican Party could learn the lesson and return to broad based policies and move away from the rabid rightwing reality denial that has a hold of the Party.

This is correct. He also, during his alleged share manipulation antics, made two offers, the first $13Billion below the price he eventually paid, the second $11Billon less. It can be reasonably assumed he paid a vastly higher price than he wanted to. Now he has a problem. He needs to turn a profit. The profit is in advertising, and outside ‘The Pillow Guy’ what business is going to want it’s name alongside a constant stream of hate mongering? While over the horizon there are calls on both sides of the political spectrum to break up ‘Big Social Media’. Musk has bought himself a headache.

Pointing out that voting for a party that is actively working to deny citizens the right to vote is putting democrat risk is not, in any rational world, ‘anti democratic’. If a raving communist party was standing for election I doubt very much that you’d object to other parties warned that voting for the raving communists would put democracy at risk. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republican-anti-voting-lawsuits-pile-up-in-2022/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/03/brennan-center-report-voting-restrictions-prevalent-gop-states/10226602002/ https://www.vox.com/22463490/voting-rights-democracy-texas-georgia-suppression-jim-crow-supreme-court-sb7

Yes they are, but it only applies to migrants entering the EU and traveling between EU states. I thought you understood that.

Thanks for pointing out my typo, now fixed. We all know there are no simplistic answers to complex problems. I can think of few global problems more complex than mass migration.

I’ve told you many times. I don’t owe you a solution to anything. Go get angry with the people who told you they would fix this (it wasn’t me). I have given my opinion of where the resolution will be found a couple of posts north of here.

Sorry, I’m not an employee of UK Border Force or the Home Office. I have no idea of the ‘status’ of those arriving, and I don’t owe you a definition of their status either. Take your question up with the Government.

The UK ditched the Dublin Regulations with Brexit. It has zero application to anyone traveling through the EU to a non EU nation.

Now we are getting somewhere. “Managing illegal migration is a global challenge” Yes managing the mass migration of people is a global challenge it’s a complex issue that is not going to be resolved by simplistic solutions. It certainly is not going to be solved by the UK acting by itself. The UK is going to have to engage with its neighbors ( essentially the EU) and almost certainly will have to join multinational agreements and treaties to address this issue. It might be a good idea to step back from the antagonism towards the EU, and particularly France that the UK has engaged in since 2016. Abandoning the Dublin regulations was a monumental mistake, a return to cooperation is the only way this problem will be resolved.

You just said the quiet bit out loud.

Here, this’ll explain, it’s a report from September of this year so the totals are not up to date: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-62889043

“Taking back control of our borders was never anything to do with illegal entry“ Arguably the most illogical statement I’ve read on this forum for a long time. Putting aside the use of photos of non European migrants by the Leave Campaign, of a nation loses control of migrants crossing the border, it does have control of its borders. ‘Oh we’ve got control of the borders, except for the over 30,000 people who sneaked in so far this year’

They are still migrants and ‘getting our borders back’ is still a lie.

I’ve explained, I don’t owe you a solution. It’s not me that made you false promises.