mokwit

What's your speciality? I am surprised by your lack of clear writing. To be a Doctor you have to be pretty good at writing essays to get into Med School. 'You could be Kennedy's assistant or at least Janitor.' I assume this is meant to be derogatory 'What you write is without any lack of knowledge. But how could you? You're not a doctor.' What do you mean 'without any lack of knowlege' This sentence effectively contradicts itself so i can't be sure what you mean. If you are saying I have no knowledge, go ahead and point out where I am wrong.

In studied Immunology as an undergraduate. I admit i didn't get into spike proteins etc because having studied Immunology I was well aware how much effort would be required to genuinely understand and I was not prepared to put in that effort. Others without this foundation knowledge clearly regarded themselves as experts, arguing with Immunology Professors about spike proteins etc, and telling them they were wrong. I really can't decipher what you meant by what you wrote. I assume you were being snidey/negative about what I wrote. If that is the case please tell me on what knowledge base you are judging what I wrote i.e. how are you qualified to judge?

The station there has a reputation.

I think China's non compliance and building new coal fired power stations might be a factor also.

really, with a completely disinterested founder? he might not be interested in your "other privileges" Have you even worked in a business, let alone run one?

Yes, of course, I will acknowledge that, after all it is an organised business, not a family fleeing war buying a dinghy. How well it will work with Pakistani Hwala type networks used in many of the regions these people are coming from I don't know. US DEA has problems cracking them. It is still not addressing boats arriving TODAY or the large numbers housed and fed at at taxpayers expense. Also I feel the focus on illegal immigration, whilst commendable, deflects from the problem of too high legal immigration which has been ongoing starting with Blair Govt. If you are going to point out the Tories record against a backdrop of promises to rein in immigration, no need, the electorate knew and we no longer have a Tory govt in part because of this. Bunch of useless idiots.

You seem to be reading things in OP that no one else can see, it talks of Labours pkllans/spending and mentions a figure of 13,500 with no comparison and no mention of an improved deportation record for Labour. It says highest in 5 years, and that may be true but is a 12/16% that significant. It is not a doubling, or even 50% increase.

OP from DT just gives a figure of 13,500 with no comparison and no mention of an improved deportation record for Labour. Thee Guardian article gives an increase of 16 and 12% respectively and the 2024 figures for voluntary and involuntary and the Guardian is sceptical and points out that this is for Brazil. 'The government is keen to trumpet its deportation credentials with figures published on Thursday revealing 8,308 enforced and voluntary returns between July and September 2024, a 16% increase on the same period last year. The majority – 6,247 – were voluntary returns, an increase of 12% on this category of returns during the same period in 2023. While the government is keen to promote the numbers returned they have failed to mention publicly that the destination of these historic deportation flights was Brazil.' Deportations from the figures for Brazil representing 8,XXX people are up 16% YoY - that could be normal variation, I would suspect that the difference between 8,XXX Brazilians and the total of 13,500 people also represents a YoY increase rather than a YoY absolute increase of 13,500 - 8,XXXX people. Cooper wasn't "quiet" about it she gave the figures as if the number had gone from 0 to 13,500 under the Labour Govt in 5 months, rather than it being from an ongoing pipeline. Rather disingenuous of her. Claiming credit where maybe none or not much was due, but we have come to expect that from this Govt. Rwanda has nothing to do with the Brazilian figures which make up the bulk of the claimed 13,500.

I think the law refers to not coming to the assistance of a vessel in distress, hence the tactic of puncturing/capsizing boats in the Med. Towing people back to the port they came from might be acceptable under maritime/immigration law - isn't it done by some country(s) in the Med? Australia was successful in stopping the boats by making it law that if you turned up in a boat on Aus shores you could NEVER obtain citizenship - ran ads in Pakistan for example informing people of this.

I think we are talking about two different schemes, as per my post above, I am talking about Brazilians who mostly overstayed their visas and who were paid to return. For a figure to be up 16% YoY there must have been a material number (thousands) in the year prior (see the numbers in earlier post). This had to have been going on under the Tories, it is just up 16% YoY for the same period under Labour, and that could be normal variation. Trying to conflate the paid return Brazil scheme with Rwanda scheme is dishonest.

I renewed passport through them in Bangkok and felt they were professional and service oriented, as they bloody well should be with what they are likely being paid.

It requires arrest and deportation on the beaches. Not sure as to the legal situation of giving them some sandwiches and a fizzy drink and towing the boats back into international waters (we have a navy/coastguards ostensibly to prevent invasion) as presumably it is not illegal to enter UK waters, just to land without a passport/evading immigration controls?

yep, she had to be ousted. Democracy is broken - somehow it is not attracting the right kind of people into Government in Western countries (others too I am sure).

Most investment is corporate not individual (my bad I used individual as an example). If you tax corporations and they can't make profits, nobody invests. I suggest you check out what actual percentage of their companies billionaires like Musk, Bezos Zuckerberg, the Jobs family Jenwhatever his name is at NVDIA actually own. You could limit the founder to $1bn of stock market value, but then wouldn't he just cash out his billion that won't grow anymore and stop running or expanding the company?

Immediate family members, OK, but extended family members means a whole East European village.

This is pretty much was what tried in the UK in the '70's. the economy went to sh*t because no one would invest their capital to have the profits confiscated as tax. nobody goes for that deal. I grew up in the '70's. I was there. I saw the reality.

OK got it. Edit: [sarcasm].

So funny how you think you know so much. Are you out of your twenties yet? I knew everything in my twenties.

Ok you may be right on that and that is why they are so f*cked trying to run their economy on windmills and solar. Merkel nixed nuclear.

Major's was the start of the Globalist governments, not Blair, Blair just didn't have to keep up a pretence.

No one can remember them in the morning.

I'm talking about trying to supply reliable electricity to industry with windmills and solar panels. Germany is dependent on Russan gas.

Makes Britain even more attractive - you just have to find the money to get here, returning home tab is picked up by the tax payer. Wonder what the numbers would be if we implemented the Thai system, stay in IDC until flight paid for and pay bt200/for each day there before you are released to your flight.

Such solutions are available in any bar in Bangkok any day of the week. Such simple solutions to complex problems that one is at a loss to understand why world leaders aren't implementing them.

Don't worry, some billionaires are working on that. As for solar, check out the problems German industry is having.