Captain Haddock
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UK population is set to hit 72.5m by 2032 - overtaking France - with the 5m growth driven ENTIRELY by 'staggering' immigration
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14332909/UK-population-growth-immigration-birth-rate.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Jan Higgins
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The only reply to the above is anyone really surprised all these people want to be in the UK rather than France..... We can offer so much more.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Captain Haddock wrote:UK population is set to hit 72.5m by 2032
That's NINE times the population of Manchester in the next SEVEN YEARS needed because we are all too sick or lazy to work in restaraunts, pick fruit, look after our elderly, work on building sites, deliver Amazon parcels and that's before we look at 'skilled' jobs.
Seriously wondering which one of Nigeria's 500+ native languages I shuld learn so I can converse with any carers KCC may or may not not provide in future ..............................
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/12/2024/africans-fix-uk-brexit-elderly-care-crisisMatey likes this
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ALP MEHMET: My parents came here to embrace British values and culture. That's not true for many migrants now
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14335897/alp-mehmet-parents-embrace-British-values-culture-not-true-migrants-now.html
(I used to work with Alp in the seventies at Heathrow. Top Bloke.)"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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'It is estimated by lawyers that 75 per cent of those standing trial for homicide at the Old Bailey every year are from a black background, many from war-torn territories. We cannot and should not ignore the evidence before our eyes'.
Trevor Phillips
https://www.thetimes.com/article/a20d1f8f-6d3f-4b62-b8dc-527ad4595e53?shareToken=39f16053df6801f697e1e4a1823c993e"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I have not read the article. Surely it can be no surprise that many referred to above are originally from backgrounds or areas in the world where life is considered cheap.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote:Surely it can be no surprise that many referred to above are originally from backgrounds or areas in the world where life is considered cheap.
Indeed. As Sweden has found out.
' Spiralling gun crime, marauding migrant gangs and fascist violence - how Sweden became Europe's crime capital.'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1901453/sweden-civil-war-migrant-crisis"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'These new counter terror-style powers, including making it easier to seize mobile phones at the border ........................................... will turbocharge efforts to smash the gangs.'
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14342379/Migrants-prevent-rescues-Channel-dinghies-reach-UK-waters-face-five-years-jail.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Big Brother is watching you - (but he's not counting you!)
Why don't we know how many people are in Britain. SpectatorTV
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Apropos of nothing, in the first six months of 2024, we gave out 1,063 health & care visas to workers from Zimbabwe. They brought with them 10,670 dependants. That's 10 dependants for every (likely minimum wage) social care worker.
(Home Office visa stats published in November 2024. Pivot table on the Vis_D02 dataset. Filter by nationality, visa type subgroup, application outcome, applicant type and Q1 2024 + Q2 2024.)
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: factsheets :-
These factsheets provide more information about the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill introduced in the House of Commons on 30 January 2025.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-security-asylum-and-immigration-bill-2025-factsheets
Currently illegal immigrants are prevented from obtaining citizenship. The BSB repeals this, reintroducing a path to citizenship for illegal migrants.
The Border Security Bill also removes the specific ability of the government introduced in the Illegal Immigration Act to conduct scientific age assessment tests, to determine if illegal migrants claiming to be children really are under the age of 18.
In repealing the majority of the Illegal Immigration Act, the Border Security Bill also removed the obligation placed on the government since 2023 to seek to remove illegal immigrants to their country of origin or to a safe third country.
Meanwhile
Taxpayer pays for new clothes and shoes for every Channel migrant
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/29/channel-migrant-new-clothes-bill-taxpayer/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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UK SPENDS £141M ON MIGRANT SERVICES FROM TAXPAYERS' MONEY: FROM PLAYSTATIONS TO DJ LESSONS
UK local councils have reportedly provided PlayStations, yoga, circus skills, driving, and DJ lessons, sparking a debate about the appropriate use of taxpayer money.
This expenditure reflects broader pressures on local councils, with the Local Government Association noting a near doubling of spending on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to £152.4 million in 2017-18.
Initiatives like the £19 million Controlling Migration Fund in 2018 aimed at integration show government support for these efforts.
This comes as the UK increasingly uses its aid budget domestically, with £4.3 billion spent on refugee costs in 2023, highlighting the complex balance between integration, humanitarian support, and fiscal accountability.
Source: The Telegraph, LGA Report 2019, GOV . UK 2018, ICAI Report 2024
Local Grifter watch!
https://www.samphireproject.org.uk/funders/
'Samphire started life as the Dover Detainee Visitor Group back in 2002. It came into being as a result of concerns felt by a number of local residents about the plight of the people detained at the newly established Dover Immigration Removal Centre – a Prison Service operated facility for detaining up to 400 migrants on the site of a disused borstal on Dover’s Western Heights.'
https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4008537/full-print
https://www.samphireproject.org.uk/
There's a lot of it about!
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Matey
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Well……that’s why they want to come here
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1
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Samphire of course fights that corner
That's what they were we up for .
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'£634,182 of YOUR money was spent on a contract to 'Support Migrants Currently Living in the Community Who Do Not Have Permission to Live in the UK'.
The Home Office tells me 84 participants took part.
£634,182 on 84 illegal migrants.
Stop messing around, and just deport them'.
Rupert Lowe MP
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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Labour's 'Trump-style' deportation flight 'took just 47 migrants to Albania at a cost of £1million' using privately chartered jet
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14385781/Filmed-deportation-flight-took-just-47-migrants-Albania-1million.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Labour's new borders watchdog will WFH...in Finland! Tories blast 'totally ludicrous' proposal by Government's choice for chief inspector
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14386715/Labours-new-borders-watchdog-WFH-Finland.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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