Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Sounds reasonable?
News from Austria :-
"Chancellor Karl Nehammer today instructed Interior Minister Gerhard Karner to suspend all current Syrian asylum applications and to review all cases in which asylum was granted," the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Mr Karner added: "I have instructed the Ministry to prepare a programme of orderly repatriation and deportation to Syria." He did not elaborate on how that could be achieved.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/syria-refugees-europe-migration-austria-germany-eu-b1198943.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1733753629"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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Italian problems with the judiciary.
"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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Strange design for Border Force's Christmas card?
Jan Higgins and Matey like this
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Even on Christmas Day, they won’t give up. This means our services staff working today will have to take care of them. Meanwhile, we’re told ‘try not to call an ambulance’……angry
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-12-25/migrants-cross-english-channel-in-small-boats-on-christmas-dayLife without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
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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'A total of 451 people crossed the English Channel in 11 small boats on Christmas Day, according to the latest official figures'
I can remember when Christmas was 'covered' by a shift of Immigration Officers covering the whole of the South East coast and taking it in turns to remain sober for eight hours close to their home landline (no mobiles!) for double time AND a day off in lieu, with nothing to do!
Andy B and Matey like this
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Presenting the paperless passport ! (OR you can just motor over in a cheap dinghy locally)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-paper-passport-is-dying/"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Great Replacement conspiracy theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory
Dover 36,363 Population [2021]
A total of 36,816 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK in 2024, provisional government figures show.
36,816 - 36,363 = +453 !
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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Facts (Still) Don’t Care About Your Feelings:
'The official data, extracted piecemeal and constabulary by constabulary, tells us that foreign nationals formed more than a quarter of all arrests for sexual offences. And they were arrested at a rate of 165 per 100,000, compared to 48 per 100,000 for Britons.
When it comes to overall crime, some nationalities were vastly over-represented. Against an average arrest rate per every 1,000 British nationals of 12, there were 210 Albanians arrested per 1,000, 107 Afghans, 93 Iraqis, 73 Algerians, 70 Moroccans and 65 Somalis'.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/06/foreign-crime-figures-prove-the-folly-of-mass-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
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Sir Keir says: ‘My pledge to Mail readers is this – we’re going to hit them where it hurts. Today we are announcing a new sanctions regime, the first of its kind anywhere in the world'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14264657/Labours-latest-plan-smash-smuggling-gangs-World-policy-financial-sanctions-used-organised-crime-terrorists-imposed-boat-kingpins-bid-cripple-networks.html
What's the betting it will 'require'
closer cooperation with the EU.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"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"
Jan Higgins and Matey like this"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"
