Bearing in mind hmg is just about to give away 17 billion to ‘poor’ people as they can’t afford fuel, fags, beer and sky tv I reckon it’s a tiny amount compared to that.
Oh and hmg stole 47 billion; almost forgot that one !!!

Bearing in mind hmg is just about to give away 17 billion to ‘poor’ people as they can’t afford fuel, fags, beer and sky tv I reckon it’s a tiny amount compared to that.
Oh and hmg stole 47 billion; almost forgot that one !!!

Suggestions of ignoring human rights law to push this through... you have to wonder to an extent whether this is just a stunt and a means to an ends for that, and along with it how the new 'UK Bill of Rights' how that will impact normal situations of protect and the like.

Look how eager the police are to 'politely' intimidate this protester using it (ignore that he's anti Brexit, it's irrelevant to the point and implications of the law)

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If it's not going to impact protesting, why does he want a 'grown up coversation' about it.. and talk of crossing thresholds etc. The guy has a placard, he's hardly lookinf for ww3

Changes to human rights

Diminishing our right to protest

Internet censorship bill

Removing ministrial oversight for themselves

Taking over the electorial commission

I'm not even against these flights or clearly needing to do something in this area, but at the same time I think we should beware of stunts that may be used to push through other changes or get the public onside under false pretenses

Edited by BlueJay (23 Jun 2022 5.54pm)

So more than 60% of illegal migrants arriving by boat are Albanian and mostly men.

So much for the usual deluded arguments about poor war torn refugees fleeing for their lives.

Is there a worse country in Europe for criminality?

Think this has been misreported , I’m not a cynical man so I ‘ll assume it was a genuine mistake by The home office press team and SKY , I got this from SKY [Link] ‘Government officials believe around 60% of migrants making Channel crossings each day now are Albanian, although figures fluctuate’.
The terms Believe and figure fluctuate are doing a lot of work here because the Home office own figures say there is nowhere near that and the actual number between 2018 and Mar 2022 is about 3% [Link] .

There are potential issues,
1) The figure reported is boats that have been stopped and it could be far more Albanians are getting through then everyone else. It is possible but to make the 60% figure work 20 Albanians would be getting through for every Albanian stopped and the home office we need to have a 100% record of stopping everyone nation. Unlikely and if it is happening don’t send the Albanians back get them into our navy the lads are geniuses.
2) When the say ‘Government officials believe around 60% of migrants making Channel crossings each day now are Albanian’ they actually mean from Apr to now, it’s possible but again unlikely that it should have changed significantly in the last few months but we can come back when the figures are updated.
3) The most likely explanation is what they actually should say is that ‘Government officials believe around 60% of migrants who have no legitimate asylum claim making Channel crossings each day now are Albanian’ and through lazy journalism and political motivated briefing they ignore the fact
If the third point is right, and I think it is the most likely, then the tie up with Albanian is good and Home office can weed out Albanians early and speed up the process for legitimate asylum claims. However the majority of people stopped crossing the channel are legitimate asylum seekers they are from either war torn areas or oppressive regimes, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Eritrea, in figure 3 if you are interested.
90% are men and 50% are under 25.