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General Discussion Area / Re: It Must Be A Coincidence
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 15 July 2025, 15:02:14 »
Wait till you see Sky News reporting on 7000 Afghans to be relocated to Uk due to a MOD data breach . It is going to cost an eye watering amount. Could be 7 bn ( million pounds each?)
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 14 July 2025, 16:27:05 »
Class A drugs. One of the huge problems here is the ingress of drugs. Either by sheer volume so the odd million pounds worth seized at container ports isn’t more than an inconvenience to a drug lord OR by ever more sophisticated deliveries eg single use two man 1 tonne of cocaine across the Atlantic. 60,000 euros was the going rate for police chief to Not have police patrolling a part of the river at Seville to make drop off easier…..
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 13 July 2025, 20:54:51 »Boat people - tow the boats back to France and drop them off.
If the French want a fight over it, well they need to remember history.
Young Brits who think the country owes them a living without them having to get out of bed - starve them into a job.
If they claim to be disabled. Tell them Stephen Hawking was the most disabled person you could ever see, and he worked all his life.
99% of people are capable of doing something.
Gets my vote. The French are just operating a taxi service. They should be questioning the prospective ( now punctured) boat people and bussing them back to the EU country they arrived in.for asylum processing. Imagine the Frogs if boat people arrived in the UK and gangs smuggled them to France. I wonder what their response would be.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 12 July 2025, 07:48:28 »
Lol. That is almost Shakespearean.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 10 July 2025, 21:56:14 »
So will it be 50 migrants returned, France sends 50 more. The returned migrants try again. Uk sends 50 back and has to accept a new 50 ? Biometric cards . Fingerprints and photo of everyone including all European residents.
If that is the case Macron must be laughing!
If that is the case Macron must be laughing!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Prediction
« on: 10 July 2025, 20:32:21 »
I think you are right Terbs. Short term it will look like a win and then lapse back to the norm.
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General Discussion Area / Re: King Charles uses the same words as Biden.
« on: 10 July 2025, 09:34:28 »Saw a suggestion tother day that Halal butchery is going to be outlawed in the UK and if that happened, all the Muslims would leave.
Who was suggesting that? I draw a lot of my experiences on Spain unsurprisingly. As far as I can tell, supermarket meat is still butchered traditionally. There are however a lot more butchers shops on the high streets. Bit like the UK 40 years ago. What is happening is “ nominated” towns are actively pursuing taking migrants ( primarily Moroccans) . We think there are government incentives and it may be that if residents on the register are over 20,000 then more central funding is available. The end result is all the empty shops ( same problem as UK) are being taken over as Moroccan fruit and veg or halal butchers. So there must be a halal slaughterhouse to serve them. I suspect the town hall offers business rates reductions.
I have just tried to search on reliable stats on immigration and emigration for European countries. Plenty available for EU countries. What is interesting is Germany leads the field for both. I wonder where Germans are emigrating to……? If anyone has more success please post the results
2023
Breakdown by Country (2023):
Germany: 1,271,200 immigrants
Spain: 1,251,000 immigrants
Italy: 439,700 immigrants
France: 417,600 immigrants
Key Points:
Germany and Spain also had the highest number of emigrants in 2023.
Many EU countries saw a decrease in immigration in 2023 compared to 2022.
In 2022, the EU received 5.1 million immigrants from non-EU countries.
Malta had the highest rate of immigration per 1,000 residents in 2022.
Germany, Spain, Italy, and France are among the top countries for both immigration and emigration in Europe
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General Discussion Area / Re: King Charles uses the same words as Biden.
« on: 10 July 2025, 00:05:28 »
I agree. Perhaps better would have been to omit “and yet.” Just leave it as a fact.
It all seems bizarre that illegals arrive in East / South Europe “ get processed “ then vanish to a better prospect ie Britain because they speak English . Britain should send them back to the country that first processed them. Back to biometric cards for everyone.
It all seems bizarre that illegals arrive in East / South Europe “ get processed “ then vanish to a better prospect ie Britain because they speak English . Britain should send them back to the country that first processed them. Back to biometric cards for everyone.
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General Discussion Area / Re: King Charles uses the same words as Biden.
« on: 09 July 2025, 18:00:13 »
And yet the French take something like 6 times as many migrants in as Britain!
I was reading about a migrant who was processed in Greece but moved on ( to Britain) as although he was accepted there by the Greek authorities, they would never allow him to bring his family. There should be bio metric cards ( for everyone including homegrown Brits) and details shared by interpol. Before anyone complains, we live in 2025 not 1025.
I was reading about a migrant who was processed in Greece but moved on ( to Britain) as although he was accepted there by the Greek authorities, they would never allow him to bring his family. There should be bio metric cards ( for everyone including homegrown Brits) and details shared by interpol. Before anyone complains, we live in 2025 not 1025.
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General Car Chat / Re: Another thank you for Mark and the DVD crew
« on: 05 July 2025, 09:08:42 »
. There have been some very amusing threads over the years. Also quite a few names that faded away. Either moved to a different marque or actually faded away……Desperate Den.
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General Car Chat / Re: Another thank you for Mark and the DVD crew
« on: 04 July 2025, 21:21:52 »
Just had a look, I joined 19 years ago this month.
Will there be a virtual party?
Will there be a virtual party?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 03 July 2025, 17:01:45 »
Been watching that on Spanish news. Tyre blowout overtaking another car in their Lambo late at night.
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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train
« on: 03 July 2025, 14:55:38 »Trains are still highly efficient ways of quickly moving lots of people in/out/between cities. They're nearly as good for moving heavy, bulky loads between fixed points - like fuel for power stations.Which is why trains sort of almost work for the South East, assuming you want to go to London.
They really don't work anywhere else, and outside of London's Tube system, are not financially viable to users or the taxpayer.
That is madness. Society should be pushing for it to be easier to travel by train or indeed be easier to travel.
Drop off charges boil my P1ss. Years ago, my brother had to pay a couple of quid to pick me up at Leeds airport or £5 if he came in his van. He revolted and made me walk out of the airport. Of course now red lines everywhere. Contrast with Spain. Free to drop off at Malaga airport in short stay if you take less than ten minutes. You can use the same to pick up if you wait off site and the person messages you.
The train companies often don't help, as parking at Chiltern stations is now a tenner a day, and Banbury station has closed it's drop off point to private vehicles, so anyone wanting to use the train from there now has to use a taxi if not in walking distance. Fine for drop off is now £40. So everyone drives to London now.