James105

It's meaningless if they have the highest arrival figures for illegal immigrants though. If there were zero illegal immigrants arriving and they deported 13,500 I would say that was an okay starting point but still an extremely long way from deporting the 1.5 million or so that need removing who are illegally staying in the UK.

Labour are well aware of this so their solution is to cancel the next local elections so they do not lose to reform. https://news.sky.com/story/some-local-elections-could-be-held-off-next-year-under-devolution-plans-minister-suggests-13274768 Can't be removed if you don't have elections eh? Wonder what their plan is to prevent the next general election. I think a war would do it.

Excellent news for people that cannot work out that having 35,000 illegal immigrants arrive since they took power and only managing to deport a third of that number leaves about 21,500 illegal immigrants consuming UK taxpayer resources. Excellent news would be removal of incentives to cross the channel such as taking away the freebies and turning around the boats as this would solve this problem overnight. They will fail at stopping illegal immigrants, not just because they are morons (which of course they are), but they are following the same model as the "war on drugs" which will always result in failure as for every smuggler captured there are 1000s lining up to take their place as it is a lucrative practice. The only way this business model dries up is if there are no customers willing to use their services, which can only be achieved when the UK is no longer an attractive place for illegal immigrants to come to by removing the incentives to get there.

The trial of this monster has been moved to 20th January. Coincidentally so has the trial of Labour councillor Ricky Jones which now takes place on exactly the same date. Just as well nothing else important in the world is happening on that particular day so the media will of course be able to give both these trials their full and undivided attention. Wonder if Ladbrookes would take a bet on what specific date the CPS will announce they dropping the charges for the Manchester airport thugs...

Unfortunately for you the facts do not support your narrative. https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/un-study-reveals-transgender-athletes-have-won-nearly-900-medals-in-womens-competitions-united-nations-sports-lgbt-gender-identity-title-ix-athletics That's almost 900 medals that should have been won by women in women's sports that have in fact been stolen by men. So almost 900 women have lost out due to this woke aberration. Do you think the medals should be stripped from the men who "won" them and given to the women who should have won them?

The UK will become majority muslim one day. Not in my or your lifetimes, but your grandkids or the kids of your grandkids will likely experience this in theirs. The unwritten rule that the current generation will hand down a better world to the next generation has been broken as once that majority is reached the UK will undoubtedly become a sharia law country and all the horrors that come along with that. I've never understood the reveration of the left towards the most illiberal, conservative, homophobic, intolerant, violent, misogynistic group of people on the planet.

Weird how the UK had a net migration of almost 1 million last year and "achieved" growth of 0.1% in October. How is it even possible that an extra million people barely move the needle on GDP?

No, there does not. Stonewall started this grift when they realised that attaining equality for gay and lesbian people wasn't good for business and needed a perpetual business model. Pitting transgenders against women is the almost perfect grift as it is a dispute that can never be settled as to give more rights to one you have to take away from another. The only way this grift ends is when we go back to the good old days and stop pretending that men can actually become women.

Because the answer was 42.

This particular clown is as stupid as she looks with statements like this. She should have apologized for taking an economy that was growing and changing it to one that is not. If she really wants to achieve higher growth step 1 on this vacuous "plan for change" would be to resign, and if they really want higher living standards for everyone then the head clown should call for a very early election and let someone with a modicum of sense take over running the country.

You mean like it used to be? Men competing against men.

Sentencing disparity between genders has been prevalent in all western countries for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity#:~:text=kill their husbands.-,United Kingdom,mitigating factors and case characteristics. What is new is the disparity between white and non-white criminals. I think that criminals who commit the same offenses should be treated equally and if a white man receives a 2 year sentence for smuggling cannabis then so should the brown man. Only a racist would think that someones skin colour should be a factor in the sentencing.

No, I would jail this person on the contents of his suitcase and his character which in this case he was carrying 40kg of drugs which means he is of questionable character. I would look at what other sentences have been given for similar cases and give the same without taking skin colour into account as to do so would (of course) be racist. I don't recall advocating pardoning anyone who has killed a policeman. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

Ah got it. So the 40kg he had in his suitcase was not deliberate? If you believe that nonsense maybe you would be interested in a bridge I have for sale. Do you know how much 40kg even is? Its about the weight of a Thai girl. Impossible to accidentally carry on a plane and nobody is carrying that kind of weight in suitcases for someone free of charge. Dean Pharoah (white male) was sentenced to 2 years for the same offense and the one I presume you are referring to is a celebrity white girl and there has always been a disparity between what males and females get sentenced to for the same offenses. You are a 2-tier justice denier.

Actually 2 years 3 months in jail for a white person. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5exjk22xo

Because Labour are moronic clowns they spent £10bn on giving public sector pay rises, and asked for nothing in return so those pay rises costs £10bn, or a "£10bn black hole" if you will. A more savvy negotiator (average 6th form student for example) might have asked for productivity improvements in return, so the pay rise could end up paying for itself and cost nothing. So now they have £10bn shortfall to make up.

They need fighting aged men then to rebuild the houses and infrastructure. By fortuitous coincidence there are tens of thousands of Syrian men that no longer need asylum in the UK that can be returned post haste to help them do this. Don't worry about funding, Labour love giving away UK taxpayers money to terrorist groups, they will be fine.

How about this guy, what do you think he should have got? He stabbed a guy to death in "self defense" around the same time as Penny but since it is a black man stabbing a black man no charges were even brought. No BLM outrage either. No demands for "punishment" from leftists. It's almost like nobody cares when black people kill each other, especially not the left.

I use dual sim and have a UK sim but there is no way (I can think of) that it would give you an IP address from the UK without a VPN. To connect to the internet here on your phone you would use a Thai mobile provider with roaming (3BB, AIS etc) and they would issue a public IP address from one of their ranges. If you go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ on that phone does it show your location as UK without a VPN?

I doubt it as many people are getting declined for this in the UK as well who happen to have lots of cash in their Starling bank accounts. Anyway, matters not there are better options than this and Trading212 has 4.9% interest rate for cash sitting doing nothing with interest paid daily so Starling have inadvertently spurred me into action to move some money there instead. I've never been convinced of the use of VPNs just to trick an app into thinking you are in a location you are not as there are ways to detect if someone is using a VPN (e.g high numbers of uses coming from the same IP address) which could cause a red flag to financial orgs so not something I plan to start doing.

Their logic doesn't make any sense, I only applied as its "easy" and apparently the automatic interest they apply to current accounts will be zero % next year. This is a scenario taken from a reddit thread here: "My girlfriend who has a credit rating off 546 was approved almost instantly. She has an overdraft with them too. My credit score is 988 and I have never been in debt and have 30k in my account with them. I got put on a review for 20 mins and then declined. Been declined 4 times now. I’ve taken all my money out now and will try 1 more time next week otherwise I’ll be banking elsewhere" Doesn't seem to be anything to do with location but its a bit annoying as for the visa I want to apply for (next year) I need to keep a significant amount of cash in the bank account to avoid the need to purchase insurance, and would obviously prefer it to make interest.

Well, 20% of the electorate voted for it. It's the 80% that did not vote for this I have some sympathy for as the damage could be irreparable in just a single term of this clown show, especially when they inevitably start to double down on their mistakes like gamblers chasing their losses.

Yes, I use Starling as my main bank account and I have a fair bit of cash in the account. When I had my UK company I also used a business account with them. It seems I'm not the only one, there is quite a large reddit thread with people getting declined for this savings account with no clear reason given as to why, but it does seem that people with large cash balances are getting turned down. Strange.

Just throwing it out there as Starling bank have just released an "Easy Saver" account which seemed like a bit of a no brainer to apply for it as it offers 4% interest on cash sitting in the bank that can be accessed immediately at any time without consequence. I have a bit of cash sitting in there so I applied. Surprisingly it said it needed to be "reviewed" and 24 hours later I received a notification that it had been declined... for a savings account! Not a mortgage, not a loan, not an overdraft, not a request to sleep with the bank managers wife/daughter... I have actually been declined for a savings account... this is a first for me. Anyone use Starling and had success with this? Don't really want to query it directly with them just in case they start to ask about where I am located etc. Prefer them to think I am shivering somewhere in the UK and not threaten closure of my account due to being in sunnier climates.

Starmer claims he is a product of a toolmaker and that alone provides ample opportunity for comeback gags that would be much harder hitting than the joke that Starmers script writers came up with for him. He is in the glassiest of glass houses from the idiotic things he has claimed, not forgetting his time in CPS where celebrity pedophiles were allowed to carry out their crimes with impunity and she should have had a better comeback than claiming "a conservative wouldn't be able to say that about a black labour MP". It's just lame and the kind of nonsense I would expect the likes of Lammy/Abbot to spout. I think her time as leader of the Tories will be short lived. One of their biggest donors (billionaire Nick Candy) has now defected to Reform and its only a matter of time before other "actual" conservative MPs start leaving the conservative-in-name-only party. The local elections next May could be a bit of bloodbath for both Labour and the Tories.