Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:Migration is too high, says party in charge of migration for 14 years
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Moment French escort vessel 'picks up migrant dinghy just two miles from French coast - then takes it across the Channel so the asylum seekers can be delivered to Dover'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13144885/Moment-French-escort-vessel-picks-migrant-dinghy.html'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
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An ex-Immigration Minister writes.
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Captain Haddock wrote:An ex-Immigration Minister writes.
Fascinating that while this stuff serves as a vehicle for Tory party leadership positioning, it just doesn't cut through in the polls.
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Not much on starmer Neil ?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Even a metaphorical elephant has a herd.
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Following DWP's decision to stop publishing data on welfare claims by nationality, HMRC told me today they have stopped publishing data on tax contributions by nationality.
The data we need to have a more sensible conversation about migration is being deleted, not improved.
Neil O'Brian M.P.
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You have this thing on this subject Bob
Looks like it's taking over your life lol
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Add to that the recording of crimes by 'gender' and not by sex, and you'd be forgiven for thinking the plan is to politicise all areas of scientific study and thus make 'being objective' a hate crime.
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Tony Smith's evidence to @LordsJHACom in electronic travel authorities and digital borders, @UKParliament today.
A bit 'techie' but a good introduction to the system and the future rather than the usual ill informed comments.
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e8e70e10-499e-4195-9225-780dc5fbfaa3
11.02 onwards is interesting looking forward to October in Dover!
Clunkey indeed.
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Natalie E says "The two way – juxtaposed – controls in place at the borders between our nations were agreed by the UK and France to protect security and deter illegal lorry smuggling following the years of Sangatte and the Calais Jungle." Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not sure that's true; at least, if it
is true, then I wasn't aware of it. After all, first came the Treaty of Canterbury and later the copycat Treaty of Le Touquet.
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Hidden in today’s budget :-
Net migration is projected to be minimum 315,000 every year, up from 245,000
The Office for Budget Responsibility has harmonised with the Office for National Statistics on this figure
This means the Treasury will make fiscal policy on this assumption
Very differently to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's promise at the dispatch box today, that our economy will focus on increasing GDP per capita, and not source GDP growth from mass migration anymore
This also means that, yet again, the budget for public services will fall short of the demand being artificially inflated by government policy to import record numbers of foreign nationals
Source: Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Button wrote:Natalie E says "The two way – juxtaposed – controls in place at the borders between our nations were agreed by the UK and France to protect security and deter illegal lorry smuggling following the years of Sangatte and the Calais Jungle.
Button.
I believe this is covered by Tony (see link in #950).
'Our' juxtaposed controls are just a local example of 'pushing the border out' which has been going on for decades - indeed one could argue that the concept of Visa Nationals was an early form of 'pre-clearence' although the visa, of course, did NOT give you leave to enter, but merely gave you permission to APPLY for leave to enter on arrival.
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Captain Haddock wrote:Button.
I believe this is covered by Tony (see link in #950).
Thank you for that and I hope to watch it this weekend. It just doesn't match my recollection - that the Channel Tunnel juxtaposition (known commercially as "free exit") dates from 1986 and that the ferry juxtaposition of 2003 was intended to give ports a commercial level playing field.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Rotten conversation, or talking b*ll*cks:
A: problems?
B: bodies. seventeen.
A: pretty vacant?
B: no feelings.
A: liar.
B: [it's] anarchy in the UK [maaaaan].
A: [you need] holidays in the sun.
B: emi?
A: new york.
B: submission.
A&B: God save the Queen!
Exeunt
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Neil O'Brian M.P. the long read.
The Great Immigration Data Disaster
https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-great-immigration-data-disaster'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
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Do you hAve any other subjects bob?
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