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There was never any hope of a trade deal of any value with the USA The belief that U.K. would benefit from making its own trade deals was always a fallacy. The shops and online have always been full of stuff from China, India, America, Australia, Vietnam, etc etc. The idea there were new...

It never fails to amaze what clever people there are in this forum. Woodworking obviously attracts highly intelligent people :)

This is a common trope. Please have a think why children, women and the elderly are less likely to take arduous, dangerous journeys.

I would would to politely challenge you on the specific point: “We have all become far wealthier than 14 years ago” The evidence does not support that, as far as I can tell, currently there are: 4.8million people suffering food insecurity 6.0m people suffering fuel insecurity Pensioner...

I don’t think these people are sitting comfortably in their homes, looking through travel brochures. Evidence shows most small boat arrivals are from: Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq. They aren’t leaving because they think they might earn a bit more in U.K., they are leaving to...

The last 14 years has seen a huge transfer of wealth from working people into the assets of the wealthy. Home ownership rates have plummeted. If you can’t buy a house, that severely limits peoples success. I blame the left wing govt we’ve had in power for the last 14 years….oh hang on a moment

I agree, it’s awful the way lefty Labour want mass migration, in the last 2 years they’ve allowed a million people to come here.

May I ask, do you support the unions striking like Mick Lynch from the RMT?

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We the people can’t change wars and persecution that make people flee What you are effectively saying is: “I don’t want them coming here” In which case perhaps you might like to say which country you think should take more.

When people get displaced, most stay in the region, hence why Turkey has 4 million, Jordan has 1.5 million etc. The remainder disperse over a wide area, they choose countries where they have a connection, like family or the language. The majority do not come to the U.K. because they have been...

If only Trump had worn this cap for his speech yesterday:

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I am Caucasian My mothers from a city in Ireland and my dads Japanese

The other day I noticed a sheep pole dancing, I saw it through the window of a kebab shop

I can give you some basics 1) they get some funding from fossil fuel interests Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests All of the anti-net zero party’s funders in 2023 have oil and gas investments or ties to climate science denial. 2)...

You make a valid point and I for one am happy to have a meaningful debate about Reform, their funding and their candidates. I am not sure you would enjoy it though.

so true there are of course feckless people on benefits, what riles me is those who talk about "benefit scroungers" without qualifying what percentage they are talking about. I tend to find they get very angry when you ask "how many on benefits do you think are scroungers"?

Steve Bannon, Trumps advisor helped in the 2019 election populism has been the flavour of the day on both sides of the big sea

Maybe train drivers have the support of Unions to negotiate decent wages Maybe Sun reading Conservative voting lorry drivers hate unions (above is tongue in cheek please dont scream) I find it ironic that (not saying this is true in this case) those people who wanted to get rid of EU workers...