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There has always been war and economic difficulty.

There has NOT always been mass migration on the current scale.

The difference is that now, everyone has a smart phone and EVERYONE can see how people live in other parts of the world. Not only that, they hear news from people who have already got here and see photos and videos. They are told that our governments are spineless and won't repel them.

Why do you think so many camp in misery at Calais rather than seeking asylum in France? They know that the UK allows illegal working without papers and that there is a de facto acceptance of their criminal arrival. Worse still, they are told we will put them up for free in a hotel.

OUR SPINELESS, SOFT HEARTED POLITICIANS AND THEIR LIBERAL HAND WRINGING HAVE CAUSED THIS.
 
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Why do you think so many camp in misery at Calais rather than seeking asylum in France? They know that the UK allows illegal working without papers and that there is a de facto acceptance of their criminal arrival. Worse still, they are told we will put them up for free in a hotel.
France has even more illegal immigrants.
 

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Here's Viktor Orbán talking to one.. :)
Without the EU, how much teeth does orban have?
Trump has always said that he'll use tariff against the whole world. It is the sanctions, the economic war, the 21%+ inflation that push Putin to widen the war, not a few HIMARS landing on his oil terminal.
If Orban feels he his so strong, he should have wrestled Trump when he had a chance at Mar a lago the last time he was there.
 

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When the 'Subliminal' messaging goes on the blink?
 

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Taper did interviews, as I said, it's not the same as proffering the same views of those he interviewed.
If you want to look at how corrupt the incoming trump government is going to be, there are a lot of proofs out there.
The point is that Jake Tapper (CNN) said Trump was like Hitler.

All governments do weird stuff You'll see that Trump and his crew are much more focused on getting a better deal for the average US citizen. We could do with a team like that running our country. Do you know anybody, who likes what our lot are doing?

When Starmer's secret comes out very soon, he'll be out and they'll have to appoint a new leader, not that it'll change anything other than give a few naive people some temporary false hope.
 
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Those third of farms stop producing food.. how many of you comrades want to eat a third Less Food than you do now? :oops:
Let's be serious.
How much do you think Clarkson rakes in a year? Can you see him reduce his own standard of living because Rachel Reeves put up the employer's contribution by 1.5%?
I can see that those in hospitality sector may hesitate whether to get out or reduce staffing but those farmers? No. As for producing less food, I don't think they will.
 

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You are right to be nervous. Here's one of those "Off Road" mobility scooters, the Invader costing £7650.

Be afraid! Be very afraid!!

https://www.wildandwackymobility.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/InvaderMk2-standard.webp
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Looks great! Send me half a dozen! I'll have to put all that weight back on. Is it too wide for stairways, and is it's center of gravity low enough for it to not topple over backwards while self-driving itself up stairs without a rider, stopping when horizontal at the top? Or will I need a winch?
 
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Let's be serious.
How much do you think Clarkson rakes in a year? Can you see him reduce his own standard of living because Rachel Reeves put up the employer's contribution by 1.5%?
I can see that those in hospitality sector may hesitate whether to get out or reduce staffing but those farmers? No. As for producing less food, I don't think they will.
Starmer's plan to make farms liable to inheritance tax is a terrible mistake. That our farmers are increasingly ageing due to the impossibility of the young entering the industry with the high cost of farmland in this country is already a serious problem. The only bright spot is inheritance where farmer's own children inherit the farm at no cost to carry on running it.

But Starmers plan may kill that.

Only yesterday listening to one such young adult who has been looking forward to continuing the 200 acre farm from the father soon showed the scale of the problem. Prime farmland with a value of well over £2 million means a liability of £400,000 at the minimum 20% inheritance rate. Where can they find that £400,000 to inherit the farm? Farming just doesn't pay well enough to borrow that much, farms are relatively cash poor. So they'll have to sell it to meet the tax bill and pocket the balance of the cash to pay to rent it from the investor who buys it.

But that doesn't work well either so they may not bother. Even before Starmers plan the large farm next door to me is giving up the unequal struggle after being run by two generations, father followed by elder son and then by younger son who is now packing in. With no chance of anyone else trying, it's now being taken over by Surrey Wildlife Trust who will be running if on best environmental lines, in part to house their grazing herds between use to maintain land elsewhere, so no longer a fully productive commercial farm.
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Starmer's plan to make farms liable to inheritance tax is a terrible mistake. That our farmers are increasingly ageing due to the impossibility of the young entering the industry with the high cost of farmland in this country is already a serious problem. The only bright spot is inheritance where farmer's own children inherit the farm at no cost to carry on running it.

But Starmers plan may kill that.

Only yesterday listening to one such young adult who has been looking forward to continuing the 200 acre farm from the father showed the scale of the problem. Prime farmland with a value of well over £2 million means a liability of £400,000 at the minimum 20% inheritance rate. Where can they find that £400,000 to inherit the farm? Farming just doesn't pay well enough to borrow that much, farms are relatively cash poor. So they'll have to sell it to meet the tax bill and pocket the balance of the cash to pay to rent it from the investor who buys it.

But that doesn't work well either so they may not bother. Even before Starmers plan the large farm next door to me is giving up the unequal struggle after beiong run by two generations, father followed by elder son and then by younger son who is now packing in. With no chance of anyone else trying, it's now being taken over by Surrey WildlifeTrust who will be running if on best environmental lines, in part to house their grazing herds between use to maintain land elsewhere, so no longer a fully productive commercial farm.
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Starmer will be gone shortly when the shocking story comes out about Southport.
 
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this is how we can reduce illegal migration in a big way:
Great Green Wall (Africa) - Wikipedia

This project has fed more than 1 million Africans. It will feed 10 millions more when completed.

But what will happen then?

On all past experience, what will happen is that they will have larger families and repeat the whole problem of over-populating their environment again and bringing about more damage to a delicate place - the problem which causes famine in the first place. That whole region has a massive rate of population growth caused by the culture of large families.

In the 1980s when Michael Buerk showed us a biblical disaster of the famine and the world rushed to save as many as we could, the population of Ethiopia was then 39.2 Million. In 2024 it was 132.059 million. The famin of the early eighties happened because there were too many people for the arid landscape to support. Now there are more than three times as many.

Starvation in the Sahel is not about modern climate change. It is about aid leading to greater and greater population. You'd be better pushing limitation of family size rather than planting trees.

And by the way - the idea that co2 emissions are causing the Sahara is a complete LIE!!!

The Sahara has existed in its current form give or take, for twenty thousand years. The video even explained it near the start, but quickly slid into the misanthropy of blaming the rest of us for it.

Increasing desertification is caused by people over using the land, through over grazing and cutting down wood. ALL an African problem caused by the AFRICAN POPULATION EXPLOSION.

Do-gooderism by NGOs - professional do-gooders, will only make it worse, and why is it that Africans are always portrayed as needing OUR HELP? That is an insult to Africans in my book.

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You never know the gopro helmet look might catch on?
"He's a dedicated follower of fashion.." song :)
Films set fashion trends - I could build a GoPro into the chin of an Adam Pearson mask to go over my helmet, disguised as a large wart, as in this new well reviewed film. A small aircon system may be required, heatsink aluminium ears. Or I could simply attach a powrbank to a buttonhole spy camera...




 
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