mokwit

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.

we are not really talking deportations, we are talking people accepting paid for flight and GBP3,000 to go home. So if you lose your job or run out of money then just take the generous offer. I'm not being churlish with this, because if Labour really have materially increaased deportations they deserve the credit, but I can't help but think 8,308 in 5 months represented an existing, ongoing pipeline - a 16% increase could just be normal variation in numbers YoY - it's not a doubling, is it? Once again credit where due if really due, but If they are claiming results that are not really theirs.............. 2,061 were not voluntary and this suggests an existing ongoing pipelline i.e. process started under previous Government. Good luck getting an involuntary deportation through the courts in 5 months. From memory, there are at least 3 appeals possible. absolute gravy train for Immigration lawyers.

If the number for July to September is 8,308 and is up 16% on the same period YoY then that would suggest that the number in the previous year was rather more than four................... Where are you getting four from?

It didn't, it is a continuation. Granted, numbers are up 16% (June-Sept YoY), but clearly something was being done. The Tories made an agreement with France (at vast expense) but you could be forgiven for thinking France wasn't holding up its end of the bargain.

This is a 16% increase YoY i.e. from under "Tory rule", so not that big a thing to crow about, especially as they were paid GBP 3,000 to leave (if they did). Basically if they overstay they get given GBP 3,000 and flight paid to go home (note Thai system is different). The unwilling, I am sure are dragging it through the courts indefinitely. 'The returns were classed as voluntary and were likely to include people who had overstayed their visas. The Home Office offers incentives for voluntary returnees of up to £3,000 including for babies and children. The sweeteners are provided in the form of pre-loaded cards that can be activated once people touch down in their home country. 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.' Interesting that even The Guardian are querying this. Source, none other than the link brigades favourite. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/01/brazilians-deported-home-office-secret-flights-uk https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2024/summary-of-latest-statistics

Appearing on her Onlyfans channel for 120 hours would probably cover that (they don't all make millions).

With breaks for snacking, obviously.

Nobody borrowed your car yet?

Not much hope after decades of Merkel rule.

If you give enough people a biologically active molecule, some are going to die from it. Top down public health knows this and balances the expected lives saved vs losses, it is a tradeoff. What was wrong was the way eople were coerced into a novel therapeutic (MRNA vaccines) which had not undergone the normal FDA approval process. There is an argument that accelerated approval may have been right under the circumstances, especially if the vaccine actually did 'stop the spread'/provide immunity* but people screamed at "deniers" that it was FDA approved, when it was not FDA approved in they way that normally means. It was not a vaccine as vaccines were understood prior to the definition being changed*. The only vaccine I can think of given to reduce infection not prevent is the Polio vaccine which is given after someone has contracted polio, but that is because it may have benefit due to the way Polio spreads - BUT the vaccine is normally given to PREVENT infection.

You should have turned them back at the state line. The hypocrisy of fleeing the cesspit they created.

I'm not really sure that it was to the extent that it wouldn't have happened anyway. I doubt that tax breaks alone were what made this shift viable/profitable. Also, they still pay rates on their hypermarket sites. People shopped in off high street hypermarkets because it was easier and better and the same with online. It would have happened anyway, just that the big retailers might have made a bit less doing it.

It is a secular trend. Unfortunately the creative destruction of capitalism can be brutal to the businesses displaced by the new model.

Certainly this is the way pricing is set in privately owned malls, but it seems many councils were increasing rates against a backdrop of secular declines in footfall. They assumed they could make up for lower occupancy and lower car parking revenues by increasing the rates on the remaining businesses.

I'm sure they did. Supermarkets are big business, after all. However, with the move away from the High Street, Supermarkets became as much a property business as a retailing business, the ascent of TESCO has been ascribed by one fund manager as being due to competitiveness through low cost land purchases. The founder of Foodland here stated that his low prices business model was dependent on being able to buy the site at low cost. Also you get greater economies of scale with hypermarkets.

Yes, it's disgraceful how the Tories forced supermarkets and big box retailers into large off high street sites and then made online shopping the preferred alternative. They also forced local councils to charge ridiculous rates to shopkeepers and to gauge shoppers on parking - they even managed to make Labour councils do this!

How much of that "power" is hers?