Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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At least this lot shouldn't be slaughtering Christmas Market visitors!
"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: 8,323
"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: 8,323
"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: 8,323
Today we learned that 1.9m foreign citizens are claiming UK benefits, a number which climbs to 3.4m when you include those born abroad.
Can we finally dispense with the fiction - still peddled by the Left - that immigration represents an economic miracle that makes us all better off?
"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
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BREAKING NEWS
‘One in, one out’ migrant back in
Man returns to Britain on small boat a day after being deported to France
22 October 2025 1:34pm BST
A Channel migrant deported to France under Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat.
The man, who wants to claim asylum in the UK, is currently being held in an immigration detention centre.
He is understood to have been identified as soon as he arrived back in Britain after having his biometric details taken before his deportation.
His return is a major embarrassment for the Home Office, which has hailed the “one in, one out” scheme as a deterrent to Channel crossings.
Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, said: “Does that mean we now have to take two people from France to return him"?
"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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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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It gets worse:-
EXCLUSIVE from The Times
Shabana Mahmood has admitted the Home Office is 'not yet fit for purpose' after a secret report found it was dysfunctional, detached from reality and beset by a 'culture of defeatism' on immigration
The home secretary said the department had been 'set up to fail' and said the findings of the damning report were all too familiar. She vowed to radically overhaul its staff, structures and culture
Her comments come after the release of a highly critical report written by the former Home Office special adviser Nick Timothy, which the department attempted to keep secret for more than two years and was only released after a legal challenge by The Times
It identified a catalogue of failings across the department which has exacerbated the small boats crisis and left ministers unable to implement their own policies. Immigration enforcement officers, responsible for deporting illegal migrants, viewed their high failure rates as 'unavoidable in the system'
It found an overly 'defensive approach' among the Home Office’s lawyers, a reluctance by senior officials to tell 'difficult truths' to ministers, an optimism bias that led to wildly inaccurate financial forecasting and a general distrust by other departments that was directly hampering operational issues such as deportations
Timothy, who was given access to the department and officials during a two-month review of its effectiveness, said 'too much time is wasted' on identity politics and social issues.
That included 'listening circles' in working hours in which civil servants meet to discuss their feelings about social and political issues, including policies they were responsible for implementing.
Here's the section of the Timothy report on 'listening circles' at the Home Office and the culture of 'bringing your whole self to work'
'Too much time is wasted on what one official called the fashion of 'bringing your whole self to work'
'There are 'listening circles', in which civil servants meet to discuss their feelings about social and political issues, including even the implementation of government policies for which they are responsible such as the Rwanda scheme
'The number of staff representative bodies based on various sexual, racial or religious identities, the hours of staff time given to such work, and examples of training sessions about subjects such as "genderqueer" identities, also indicate a lack of focus
'I was given examples of how some members of staff have sought to police and dictate the actions of senior officials, for example by complaining about a failure to mark certain moments, news stories, or commemorative events
'This culture is counter-productive, contrary to the spirit of impartiality in the civil service, and divisive for those officials who feel unable to challenge the opinions of more strident colleagues. It risks undermining the authority of senior officials and distracts from the vital mission of the department. It should end.'
"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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How much the British taxpayer, paid for 'translation and interpretation' services in the NHS:
2021: £31 million
2025: £64 million
"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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
AHRC funds outstanding (sic) original research across the whole range of the arts and humanities.
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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You really couldn't make it up!
Manhunt for Epping hotel migrant sex attacker after he's accidentally FREED from prison instead of being deported.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15224639/Manhunt-Epping-hotel-migrant-sex-attacker-accidentally-freed-prison.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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Meanwhile in Chelmsford where release papers are all in pidgin.
"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
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No. Messing. About.
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document published on Thursday said, part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide.
(Trump said in an annual refugee determination dated September 30 that admissions would be focused largely on South Africans from the country's white Afrikaner ethnic minority!)
"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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' One In, One Out’ Migrant Who Returned to Britain Still in UK Two Weeks Later
The ‘Hokey Cokey’ migrant who returned to Britain in a small boat after being sent to France under the ‘one in, one out’ deal is still in the UK, two weeks on from his arrival in Dover. According to the Home Office, they are still working to “expedite” his removal to France for the second time. The same line Number 10 used nine days ago…
While the Home Office works at a glacial pace to remove him, other ‘one in, one out’ migrants are plotting the same stunt. So far, 75 migrants have been sent back to France as part of the deal… and roughly 11,000 have arrived since the deal launched (albeit as a ‘proof of concept’) in the first week of August. Just the 10,925 to go, assuming they don’t do the Hokey Cokey…
October 31 2025 @ 12:21
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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What I fail to understand is why these people who arrive illegally are given accommodation but then allowed to move around freely without any checks. I think they should be kept in some type of detention. They simply have too many opportunities to disappear into the country and then obtain work in the black economy. And the government cannot understand why the population is angry and frustrated.
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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
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 455
If it wasn’t so serious people wouldn’t be so angry. The response is totally unsatisfactory. The deportation system is useless and doesn’t solve anything. Meanwhile the murder and crime figures increase but anyone who complains is regarded as racist!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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What annoys me is we can manage to house these illegal boat migrants but are unable to house those who were born here or came years ago, they have to sleep rough or at best sofa surf with friends.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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OECD: UK Asylum Claims Rise Faster Than All Other European Countries
The UK recorded the largest rise in asylum seeker claims in Europe last year, according to the OECD. And saw the largest number on record…
A record 108,000 people made asylum claims in 2024, up 28% on last year (84,000). A whopping 44,000 attempted to get into the UK illegally, up from 37,000 the year before – 10,000 of whom came from Pakistan, 8,000 from Afghanistan and 8,000 from Iran. While Germany recorded the largest number of claims in Europe with 230,000, that was down by 100,000 on last year. Meanwhile, the ‘Hokey Cokey’ migrant who returned to Britain in a small boat is still in the UK more than two weeks later…
November 3 2025 @ 14:19
"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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