Real stories like the fact that there' are thousands of legal migrants here that haven't received a decision on visa renewals from the home office for 2+ years.
A mistake by an old woman is a daily occurence.
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
A mistake by an old woman is a daily occurence.
The classic overlapping full back makes a return. The Gary Neville of political parties.
The truth is it’s both, but with the latter it’s immigration as a whole.
And Starmer is a toadying charlatan.
Sorry what? The immigrants working in care homes, the health service, and social care are why all those things are struggling? It's like saying the cows dying is why there's no leather for shoes any more.
No need for the ‘sorry what?’ I clarified and expanded on the caption in the tweet, saying that high levels of immigration put a strain on public services.
Although one could argue that high levels of immigration in and of itself is a consequence of political and social failure.
But they really don't. It's like saying they put a strain on public finances despite the fact they almost always contribute more in taxes than they take in benefits/subsidies. Unlike, say, pensioners.
I’m sorry but there’s simply no way to provide the housing, grow and develop the infrastructure, train the doctors, build the required hospitals and schools, etc to manage with what are historically very high levels of immigration. Particularly in a country like Britain with the state of its public finances.
One of the wake up calls for me was the Brexit vote itself, when a good family friend from Pakistan who works as a consultant in Birmingham voted (to my shock) to Leave. And he gave reason was immigration (to my shock again). His description of weekly clinics was stark however - at each he sees around 15 to 18 patients; half of which were immigrants and half which again required interpreters to facilitate the consultation. That is simply unsustainable. In the years since I’ve grown to have little time for the fantasy land politics some people indulge in on that particular issue, as well intentioned as most of it no doubt is.
Immigrants are the doctors and builders and stuff. The population is ageing, either you replace with working age people or you don't and the economy suffers. It's all a political choice not to invest in housing, infrastructure, services etc, and not having immigrants won't change whether living standards degrade or not. If anything it is more likely to guarantee it. Rich people have stolen our money, not immigrants.
You might also be interested to know that immigrants / diaspora are frequently more conservative than their countrymen at home. Their experience of the world is certainly valid but their views aren't necessarily based in truth.
Yes I’m well aware of that, and this particular immigrant voted to Leave because of immigration.
This gets into another general gripe of mine (and isn’t directed at you specifically), and it’s when people talk about immigrants as a tool to keep ‘us’ in the style and comfort we’ve become accustomed to.
Even the most well intentioned political choices will find it very hard to keep up with such increases in population.
That’s populist nonsense for the most part.
I’m well aware of that already.
That clinic is the truth for that particular urological service. Although when I’ve mentioned it before to people, a few simply wouldn’t believe it. Which was another wake up call for me.
That's great and all but it's not really a "tool" as you put it, it's a plaster over the self-inflicted wound of a declining working population that was mortgaged to the hilt to pay for previous generations' benefits without adequately taxing to pay for them. At a certain point you either just stop providing those services if you don't have enough workers or money for them, or you look for "tools" to balance your population and books. Reality doesn't much care whether you like it or not.
And it's not populist nonsense to suggest that growing inequality year on year is the cause of many of the country's economic problems, it's not far off a fact at this point. Just because each individual rich person didn't necessarily conspire to make it so, doesn't mean that they have not benefitted unfairly from a shit system of taxation. You only have to look at the outcomes over the last decades to see that the system of redistributing wealth in the UK (and most of the world) has failed in its job of regulating an inherently unstable free market system.
And you might consider one last point - anybody who voted Leave thinking it would stop immigration (or underinvestment in urology?) is probably not very bright, even if they're notionally well educated. Again, reality has a funny way of not giving a shit about what the Daily Mail thinks.
That's not really true, the current recipients were taxed planty, the system needed to be reformed years ago when it became obvious that it wasn't fit for purpose any longer, it's still essentially the same system as when most working age people died within 10 years or so of retiring
My dad is 88 and pretty healthy, he's already 14 years older than his father was when he died, there are over 15K people in the UK that have passed 100 years old, when he was born there were a few hundred, that
s why pensions are fecked
You mean stories about the inefficiency of our home office when it comes to processing visas?
Sound familiar? Did you read the story or just the headline about this "old woman"?
And yet all the private pensions haven't gone out of business. If you were saving/investing the money charged for e.g. national insurance then you wouldn't need to tax people to pay for pension payments later.
So what are you saying, that my Dad, who never earned more than 10K a year in his life should have saved/invested more rather than have to pay tax? Or are you saying what I said, which is the system should have been reformed decades ago?
I'm saying that the state pension isn't a pension, it's a tax on working people to pay for benefits for the elderly. If you want to maintain that system then you either need more working people or you need to raise taxes.
If you're going to call it state pension then in my opinion the money should be ring fenced and invested, whether it comes directly from your pay packet/employer, or whether it's cash invested on your behalf by the government. It shouldn't be covering keeping the government's lights on. Call me old fashioned if you like but I think transparency is important and would help government function better in the long run.
I don't disagree, the current scheme is little more than a Ponzi now, it's been known for 40-50 years that it was unsustainable/
I read it and she made a mistake and did not follow process, which is completely different to the thousands who have completed due process.
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I know I'm firmly on one side of the school argument fence but there's little to defend about this. Ideological hatred of kids ffs.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...1&cvid=a43539cf97cb435e970593c4113ae829&ei=12
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...1&cvid=a43539cf97cb435e970593c4113ae829&ei=12
So they finally got a Brexit benefit. In that the Mob Boss only shook them down for half as much protection money as their neighbours.
From your own article
It's not hatred of kids, it's putting money above all else. I thought you'd appreciate that?
You want the welfare state to be cut to save money despite the disruption that will cause the people who actually need it. Why is this different? At least be consistent with your views
Don't his kids go to private school?
I’m going to use MSN links when I have a Novara Media article to post from now on
Can everyone just feck off with this tariff bullshit? As if the last five years haven't been hard enough
Hyperbole much?
Is getting their parents to pay VAT on games consoles and cuddly toys an ideological hatred of them too, or just schools? Or just an acceptance that choosing a private school is a luxury choice when a free alternative is offered and a luxury tax should also be applied?
These people don't believe in genuine poverty, those people just need to budget better. But boy howdy do they get the violins out when people cry about having to pay VAT when they BUY education from a private school.
They told her days before the 6 month visa expired.
An efficient system would've updated her with plenty of time to correct any administrative errors, or gather extra information, not days before being deported or threatened with detention.
You complain about an inefficient home office but don't like news stories about the inefficienct home office, because you get stuck in the headline and don't read the details?
Reeves' boost will come from private health hand surgeries when AI believes everyone it interacts with is a finger short on each hand.
Tough wank
It’s like she’s suffered an acid attack, but instead of acid, someone chucked a load of cnut over her.
MP Dan Norris arrested on suspicion of child sex offences and rape
MP Dan Norris has been arrested on suspicion of rape, child sex offences, child abduction and misconduct in a public office.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx48gq0y77o
Good fecking grief. What a scumbag. This is only going to give even more support to Reform.
Lovely.
In a statement, Avon and Somerset Police said: "In December 2024, we received a referral from another police force relating to alleged non-recent child sex offences having been committed against a girl.
"Most of the offences are alleged to have occurred in the 2000s but we're also investigating an alleged offence of rape from the 2020s.
"An investigation, led by officers within Operation Bluestone, our dedicated rape and serious sexual assault investigation team, remains ongoing and at an early stage.
"The victim is being supported and given access to any specialist help or support she needs.
"A man, aged in his 60s, was arrested on Friday (April 4) on suspicion of sexual offences against a girl (under the Sexual Offences Act 1956), rape (under the Sexual Offences Act 2003), child abduction and misconduct in a public office.
"He's been released on conditional bail for enquiries to continue."
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How was this not picked up during candidate vetting? Prospective MPs were deselected for liking the wrong tweet.
"Most of the offences are alleged to have occurred in the 2000s but we're also investigating an alleged offence of rape from the 2020s.
"An investigation, led by officers within Operation Bluestone, our dedicated rape and serious sexual assault investigation team, remains ongoing and at an early stage.
"The victim is being supported and given access to any specialist help or support she needs.
"A man, aged in his 60s, was arrested on Friday (April 4) on suspicion of sexual offences against a girl (under the Sexual Offences Act 1956), rape (under the Sexual Offences Act 2003), child abduction and misconduct in a public office.
"He's been released on conditional bail for enquiries to continue."
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How was this not picked up during candidate vetting? Prospective MPs were deselected for liking the wrong tweet.
Yeah that’s the MP I voted for in the last election. Honestly feck this Labour Party I fecking hate them. Tory bastards.
Why do we even bother at this point?
It takes some real piece of shit like him to make Rhys Mogg the better of two options.
But yeah, agreed.