Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,057
'identified as'?
Is 'to be' lost at sea?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
Flashes from the archives of oblivion - i.e. House of Commons Library (Apr 24)
An estimated 20.6 million people were out of work and not looking for work at the beginning of 2024. The recent rise has been attributed to long-term illness.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/economic-update-inactivity-due-to-illness-reaches-record/
Meanwhile - Seven million immigrants now working in Britain - filling 1 in every 5 jobs
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1975359/immigrants-working-britain-figures-ONS
Coincidentally I overheard a group of drinkers discussing this outside Dover Wetherspoons this morning ...................................
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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This story has broken just hours after Starmer’s press conference, where he celebrated one arrest.
"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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** Britain is home to Europe's biggest population of illegal migrants, and it isn't hard to see why:
Just 41pc of those turned down for asylum between 2010 and 2020 had been removed from the UK by 2022.
We conduct roughly 11 illegal working enforcement visits a day across the entire country, against an estimate of somewhere between 190,000 and 240,000 businesses employing illegal migrants.
Even if we had a list of which doors to knock on it would take us over 57 years to visit them all at our current rate.
Meanwhile, for every pound we spend on immigration enforcement, we spend £9 supporting and accommodating asylum seekers.
** The research – published in October 2024 and compiled by 18 institutions including Oxford University's Compas centre – estimated the number of illegal migrants in the UK was between 594,000 and 745,000.
This is roughly 1% of population.
"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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This guidance was withdrawn on 12 November 2024 !
This guidance is out of date and has been withdrawn !
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-hotels-exit-summary-information/asylum-hotel-summary-and-faq
Fortunately for us all the local hotels are full of Border Force etc, all on 'overnight expences'!!
I actually stayed in this Altrincham Hotel (below) a couple of years age with my carer when visiting an aunt in Wilmslow on our way back from being Volunteer Wardens at a Youth Hostel in the Lake District..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14084373/The-town-divided-migrant-hotel-centre-free-private-healthcare-row-Residents-fury-300-asylum-seekers-getting-access-NHS-treatment-welcoming-new-locals-open-arms.html "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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Yet another evil migrant smuggling Gang Smashed. Going well.
"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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(From Tony Smith CBE)
Another excellent piece of research and reporting by @sam_bidwell
As I have said before, don’t blame BF or IE for not removing immigration offenders.
Just take a look at this lot
https://x.com/sam_bidwell/status/1859240914729803877"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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Coming to a hotel near you!
An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation November 2023 – June 2024
(David Bolt Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (Interim) )
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/671a1b0cf7c956b7d065a417/An_inspection_of_contingency_asylum_accommodation_November_2023___June_2024.pdf
Total chaos and inefficiency at a cost of £5.24 BILLION !
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Jeez! When you read this, you can understand why they want to come here and take such risks to do so. What a ridiculous situation our governments have got our country in. I think the horse has bolted, there are so many here now, there’s just no end to it. What a mess……
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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This has taken over your life Bob lol
Nothing much is going to change so this thread will go on and on
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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It's all part of my training for doing 'Immigration Control from the Aliens Act 1905 to the present day' on Mastermind as my specialist subject.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Manston revisited.
Glad to see that the local trawl at the job centre went so well.
'Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre'
'The government may now be forced to pay out tens of millions of pounds in compensation.'
Sounds like the job was a bit more complicated than manning the check out at Tesco or being a swimming pool attendant (to name but two !) and MUCH better paid and the hours were great especially since our woke Civil Service was so keen on 'job sharing'.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/23/revealed-home-office-completely-lost-grip-at-notorious-manston-asylum-centre"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Bob, with those views i wonder how you got through your employment days lol!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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12,021 arrived illegally by small boat in the 143 days before Labour was elected and cancelled the Rwanda scheme - 19,988 arrivals in the 143 days since, up 66%.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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To be fair, the Conservatives were disadvantaged by colder sea temperatures, whereas Labour came in at the height of summer.
I'm sure Sunak would have collected more dinghies had he held out for another month.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Starmer to announce millions in legal aid for lawyers to handle the backlog of asylum appeals - acting FOR the migrants appealing AGAINST Home Office decisions.
Not only does this fast-tracking process resemble an amnesty in all but name, but it also lines the pockets of Labour's mates in the human rights industry.
"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"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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£726 MILLION was paid out in 'universal credits' last year to REFUGEES
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"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"
"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"
