Captain Haddock
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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
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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"
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Captain Haddock
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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"
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Captain Haddock
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tks Ross, so that's why London's full of 'Irishmen' ?

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That is very true
Captain Haddock
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Long. Hot. Summer. ?
Fears over riots after secret asylum scheme made public
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Captain Haddock
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Next move on Wallace's Afghan debacle - lawyers swarming to bring compensation cases for the Afghans - they've been traumatised, mental health!
So as well as moving soldiers' families out their homes for the Afghans, as well as bringing the dude who blackmailed the MoD because obviously he was 'at risk' in Afghan, and bringing his family cos ECHR 'rights to family life', and bringing all the rest of the families also cos ECHR, costing billions - the next move will be more billions to COMPENSATE them for bringing them here.
Then there'll be the billions in benefits.
Then there'll be all the money spent dealing with their inevitable crimes.
And remember - our courts have decreed and our MPs have accepted that the WORSE their crimes abroad, the MORE they are protected by the ECHR here because the MORE at risk they are if deported from reprisals in countries outside the ECHR!
And remember the courts have decreed that no crime however horrific is more important than giving them their 'rights to family life' - even when these rights apply to step children they have raped.
Dominic Cummings
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Captain Haddock
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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
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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
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Long. Hot. Summer. ?
Fears of a 'summer of riots' grow as Angela Rayner warns public anger over immigration is damaging social cohesion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14927975/Powder-keg-Britain-summer-riots-Starmer-warned.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins
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At the moment the only thing to stop these boats will be gales and wet weather, this hot relatively calm weather has been a money spinning period for smuggling gangs and the boat people.
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