Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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So why didn't, couldn't or wouldn't the Home Secretary do anything about immigration numbers whilst almost everyone I hear talking about the subject claims 'Wot they should do is' ?
Let's ask Suella :-
"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
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,252
Captain Haddock wrote:Meanwhile, at The Office for National Statistics (ONS) iwhich admitted missing 166,000 migrants who came to Britain in the space of a year - those who can't count - won't count.
Don't worry Captain as Neil told us the grown ups are back in charge.
God help us!
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And stopping the boats 'upstream' turned into a jolly up the Tigris and handing out hundreds of thousands of pounds to a country which ranks ranks 154 out of 180 countries on the 'corruption index'.
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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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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an “open borders experiment”…
"This happened by design, not accident. Immigration policies were reformed deliberately. It has been a failure. They pretended it wasn’t happening.”
"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
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
Across Europe open borders was never a good idea. It allowed far to many undesirables, as well as the genuine hard working badly needed immigrants so was doomed for failure.
I think the open borders policy was the main reason this country voted to leave the EU.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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In just four years we imported an entire city, larger than Coventry, consisting completely of Nigerians.
Not Africans in general. Just purely Nigerians.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,054
Captain Haddock wrote:In just four years we imported an entire city, larger than Coventry, consisting completely of Nigerians.
Not Africans in general. Just purely Nigerians.
Don't worry, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke will sort this.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three 'secret flights'
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/01/brazilians-deported-home-office-secret-flights-uk
"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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STOP THE BOATS - LATEST - More than 20,000 people have crossed Channel in small boats since Labour won election.
N.B. In relation to the 600 Brazilians 'deported'
1. This isn’t a secret.
2. These were voluntary departures (not deportations) at up to £3k per person. Flying home for Christmas at our expense.
"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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
£3,000 is probably a lot cheaper than keeping them in this country unless they are earners, they should not be allowed back here for at least ten years even as genuine asylum seekers.
With regard to those who enter by the small boats. The vast majority are simply here because they fancy our way of life. they should be returned to France as that is from where they sailed, unfortunately the French do not want them back. Once in the EU the genuine asylum seeker should use the official system even if it is extremely slow and under funded.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote: they should not be allowed back here for at least ten years even as genuine asylum seekers.
Career criminal deported to Romania for illegal gambling on Westminster Bridge is arrested on same spot 10 weeks later after sneaking back into the UK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14139447/Britains-revolving-door-borders-laid-bare-Career-criminal-deported-Romania-illegal-gambling-Westminster-Bridge-arrested-spot-10-weeks-later-sneaking-UK.html 
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Here's Dominic Cummings dropping a couple of truth bombs ( from 57.55 to 1.04.50 roughly).
And if you think he's far fetched - Remember the way everyone started calling illegal immigrants - 'migrants'?
He's good on the defence budget and drones too at 38.00 onwards.
"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- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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ONS figures revisions today:
- Population revised UP 484,000 (which is more than the total population of Greater Manchester)
- On new figures productivity (output per worker) has gone DOWN not up following v high immigration
"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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Looks like Holland ' gets it'?
Netherlands plans to cap its population: Government backs 'toughest ever measures' on immigration to keep population under 20million - but citizens will have to 'work longer hours and retire later'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14156393/Dutch-population-kept-20million-limits-place-grip-migration-targets-considered-hard-right-government.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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Extraordinary! Nigerians of all people! I always found them to be totally trustworthy as a nation when the WT from Lagos arrived at Tn3.
https://www.nursingtimes.net/professional-regulation/nigerian-nurses-suffering-following-nmc-fraud-allegations-05-12-2024/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Once when I was out late at night in Lagos in the 70's, going back to my ship with some other crew, the police stopped us, demanded our wallets and nicked all our money! Then they got back in their car and drove off..... (trustworthy as a nation??)
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Their civil servants are some of the best money can buy.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
