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Maybe your memory is not so great after all. How many times has Trump been prosecuted and persecuted already? So strange that these 7 million votes in 2020 simply vanished again in 2024. What's that all about, I wonder? Yes 45 inherited a slow growing economy, which continued until Covid (something you never mention) and which caused this brief recession and the temporary 6.8% UE. Today the US is growing faster than the average G7 nation but all growth rates are very low. UE is already higher than pre-Covid (2019) levels, despite most of the recent jobs added being only temporary service work, health and healthcare, or part of a hugely expanding government "workforce". Inflation is already rising again, as are real interest rates -despite recent rate cuts the Fed is losing control now and while debt levels in all classes were already crazy, the Biden Bunch kept borrowing after Covid. The whole country runs on extreme debt and your hero is the biggest cause of that now.

Invisible to him as he made the stairs evenly in one go, of course - my, what a sharp memory you have - I had to search for it. Apex of slapstick? If you reach higher, there will be your bumbling hero.

Top of the bill was Biden's triple trip UP a set of air stairs. A stunning feat that will probably never be surpassed.

Your links seem to have nothing to do with your rant. The H-2B program allows temporary legal employment is the US.

Starmer seems to insist on appointing useless a-holes to high-profile jobs. Mind you, there's so many of them they are hard to avoid. Looks like it's a case of the bigger the a-hole the bigger the job, with the biggest one getting the biggest job, of course.

You might be able to see that I have removed my heart emoji award from your first tree post, for obvious reasons.

Looks like you lost your reading glasses too.

Well, that's a relief!

Er, no. I didn't miss it. I even gave it a "love it" emoji. You didn't read my other post, did you? Have a coffee and relax for a bit.

Here we go - Merry Christmas from Magdeburg. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

Even if a system was developed that was viable the enormous cost would probably prohibit investment/use by most countries.

There were early carbon storage (site) surveys offshore Norway about 20 years ago. Locating suitable subsurface options for storage is the easiest part but this activity has decreased because there has been little progress in the development of any effective CCS method to tackle the problems of capturing and transporting atmospheric CO2 at any meaningful scale since then. The reforestation idea is not so bad and would help stop disasters like the recent horrible mudslides around the world.

Are you at a Christmas Party?

Automatically on leaving.

Like a Crazy Train? Ozzy said Merry Christmas.

I'll only comment on your last question. Only if the EU was a fair-minded economic trading bloc, then joining that would be logical. But with the EU as it is then, no - IMOO the UK would end up with even less advantage than before, especially w.r.t to our own currency, plus the pre-Brexit surviving rebates and opt-outs would all be gone. All of the previous disadvantages would still exist.

I think this mess began long before the W word was first used.

You must have missed these recent salty comments and criticism on screen.

The return was in the cards anyway, unfortunately. Labour will probably speed it up, though.

Hungary secured its' borders by erecting a fence and policing its borders. I'm sure that the majority of EU citizens would not want this but as Jagger would sing "you can't always get what you want". At least border checks that people crossing there are indeed EU "citizens" would help, just as a properly policed internal purge of people smugglers within the EU would. I expect that this Schengen pillar will be one of the last of these to fall but the UK is not a member of the EU so any any costs of abolishing/ suspending it would need to be borne by the EU? What costs are you thinking of anyway and why on earth should the UK need to compensate EU states if Schengen were to be abolished? I understand the need for compassionate assistance for genuine refugees who have to flee danger (anywhere). To protect them, the UN policy exists and for true refugees, then I agree that safe countries should jointly share the job of accommodating them, at least until their native countries become safe again. But the high percentage of lone men seen arriving in these small boats, trucks and by other means, fairly suggests that these people are not refugees but rather economic migrants. I am familiar with the main routes and the methods used to move these migrants. The EU should protect its members with stronger external border controls but, because these are weak, that is why Italy, Greece and Spain became so much affected by the initial waves of landings from Africa and the ME. Yes, you can't blame overrun countries for wanting the migrants to move on but you can expect more of the EU to try to manage itself and its external borders better. After the UK, there is little choice for migrants to move on (northward) further and it looks like that it is a popular final destination for many, anyway. EU freedom FoM and Schengen should be EU internal only. The French seem not require a passport or any ID to allow for these non-EU migrants to enter and leave France (as they should) and even use their naval forces to escort these small boats to open sea. The UK has been affected by illegal migration but has not benefitted from it at all, as far as I can see. That is why this should have been one of the main benefits of the UK leaving the EU. The different path? As I said, it's way too late.

Replace manifesto with lies and you've cracked it.

Don't worry about it. It's all waffle - just like Starmer - no specifics or answers to real problems.

Schengen came into operation in 1986 for 5 EEC members but what matters now is that rejoining the EU Schengen is mandatory. Yes, it is obviously easier to move between nations with open borders. A big problem is that many people that have managed to illegally land within the Schengen Area are obviously not challenged when they start to move across EU borders. Europe's internal borders are not so large that they cannot be made reasonably secure - ask the Hungarians. Yes, Schengen has brought economic benefits to the EU but also at the likelihood of increasing numbers if illegal migrants accessing France and then landing in the UK, which never signed up to Schengen but now suffers extra financial and social costs partly because of it. Schengen is a system to be used to ease of movement of EU nationals only, but it has also eased movement of all. due to lack of control at EU internal borders and that is why "the end of FoM should have been one of the main benefits of leaving ..." ... Well Cameron and May fumbled Brexit before Johnson mishandled it. A different path needed to be taken for long-term benefit but there is no chance to see a true comparison now - it's way too late. As far as high UK immigration overall goes. then that trend can be tracked to the nineties and noughties, starting with Blair.

Rubbish.

Fishing was not the main benefit of leaving. The EU has retained significant control of it anyway and it will be years before that ends. Free movement has allowed significant migrant travel through continental Europe. For those determined to enter the UK, the Schengen Zone made this far easier than before for them to get as close as the Channel (beaches and ports) after 2015, which is when mass movement began. The end of FoM should have been one of the main benefits of leaving but it has been seemingly willfully mishandled by the post Brexit Conservatives and now by this hopeless Labour mob. This migration is causing several problems in the UK and larger EU. It is now interesting to see that several EU states have now acknowledged this by applying border controls - temporary - I wonder? https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-and-visa/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en Influence of the EU courts over the UK was the biggest reason for the leave vote - i.e. loss of UK sovereignty.