Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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More people have now landed on British beaches illegally by small boat than stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day !
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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This isn’t border security.
It’s expensive surveillance of our own national humiliation.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,163
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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84% of all babies born in the City of London have either one or both parents who were born outside of the UK
Office for National Statistics, this morning
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
Captain Haddock wrote:84% of all babies born in the City of London have either one or both parents who were born outside of the UK
Office for National Statistics, this morning
The only problem with the above is that it includes those who arrived here as babies and children so only know the UK as home rather than their country of origin.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
All political parties are guilty of posturing on this issue.
Migration both documented & undocumented is not going to go away not matter what the populist press & their mouthpieces would like us to believe; the best we can hope for is a greater level of control & management than we have seen for the last 20+ years. This will require much greater international co-operation not only within Europe but also outside of it.
Oh & by the way Bob, anyone who has a parent that is an Irish or other EU citizen falls within that 84% figure including that doyenne of the anti-migration lobby - Tommy "ten names" Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who was born here to an Irish mother.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Tks Ross, so that's why London's full of 'Irishmen' ?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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That is very true
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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