Captain Haddock
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Between June 2023 and June 2024, the population of the UK grew by 755,300 - roughly the size of Leeds.
98% of this growth was due to immigration.
Leeds is served by:
- 7 hospitals
- 362,780 homes
- 219 primary schools
Between June 2023 and June 2024, the UK built:
- 3 hospitals
- 229,700 homes
and shut down a net 33 primary schools.
Mass migration is growing our population much faster than infrastructure can be built to serve it.
The result is more people competing for fewer services, and a worse quality of life for everyone.
"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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Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020), which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came.
The PM is either ignorant of the facts — or knowingly lying. Neither is a good look.
The Dublin Convention was a two-way street for asylum seekers. Yes, we could try to return them. But others could also be returned to us.
As a result the Dublin Agreement actually made us a net recipient of asylum seekers.
Take 2018. We made 5,500 requests for asylum seekers to be returned. Only 209 transfers were agreed. In the same year, under the same convention we accepted 1,215 asylum seekers. So we were net recipients by over 1,000. The Dublin Convention did nothing to make it easier to return asylum seekers.
Nearly all politicians are cavalier with the truth when it suits them. But Starmer is taking this to a new level.
Andrew Neil
"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 boy is making it up as he goes along!
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,310
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,310
"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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Also Lord Wolfson's report highlights that the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement is actually two agreements:
The British-Irish Agreement
and the Multi-Party Agreement
Of those, ONLY the British-Irish is a treaty and binding - and ONLY the Multi-Party Agreement references the ECHR.
"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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Ministers are flying in hundreds of foreign staff to work in the Civil Service, despite a pledge by Sir Keir Starmer to cut down on net migration.
Whitehall departments have sponsored 400 visas for foreign staff and paid £626,000 in fees to allow them to work in the UK in the last year.
The highest number of foreign staff on visas were employed by the DWP, which sponsored 316 people in the last year.
The visas in that department came at a cost of £458,000.
The Telegraph previously revealed that the DWP was using government credit cards to pay for visa extensions, which currently cost £500 every six months for each employee.
Several government departments, including the Ministry of Justice and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, declined to reveal how many staff were employed on skilled worker visas because it would take too long to search HR records.
Tony Diver
Associate Political Editor - Telegraph
"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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Is the Immigration 'system' beyond repair?
"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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As of May 2025, there were 148,000 doctors employed by NHS England. 57,000 were non-UK nationals.
This is despite British medical graduates facing a dire unemployment crisis, with over half failing to find a job.
Mass migration has been disastrous for British graduates.
"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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More than 1,000 small boat migrants crossed the Channel to reach Britain on Wednesday (08/10/25), the Home Office has confirmed.
There were 1,075 arrivals in a 24-hour period aboard 15 dinghies, the department said, the third highest number so far this year.
"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
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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If they do not stop it all soon the boats will going both ways they come this way and us going the other way.
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Looks like we are swapping doctors and engineers for millionaires Vic ?
"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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And talking of doctors and engineers ..........................
DEPORTATION DISASTER Violent migrants who faced deportation are still in UK & STILL committing crimes – inside scandal of our failing system
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36975900/migrants-deportation-uk-crimes-failing-system-scandal/"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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The real problem with Britain's asylum hotels - and the woman with a bold idea to solve it - BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4rrrvg8do?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial
N.B. This would mean your taxes would be used to take already scarce housing off the market, reducing supply, and causing rents and new mortgages to rise.
"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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In 2024, 155,690 babies born in England had parents who were both born overseas.
That represents 27.4% of all births in England in 2024.
In London, it was 48.7%.
Compared to 1999, this is a tripling of the % of babies born to two foreign born parents in just 25 years.
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,310
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,310
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
