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Rod Liddle approves! 😁 *Sorry - just better check that I'm allowed to make that joke about the recently deceased.

Amazing Friday afternoon banter. Thanks Cheese! 😁

There's so much click bait and sensationalism with reporting on AI nowadays. No wonder people are nercouse about it.

Thank you, oh great and needlessly patronising one. However, I didn't write instentismal - I wrote insentismal. In any event, what I meant to write was infinitesimal 😁

On the flip side of bad news stories. This is an amazing breakthrough https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo

That's how I feel about it. Chances of something actually happening are insentismal - but we hype the threat of it up. Paedogeddon style 😁

You've posted a selfie as your profile picture on this very site, Zico 😁

*diplomacy before you jump on this typo 😉

I've not watched The Guns of Navarone. Is this where you get your steer on international diplomany and partnership working? 😁

These programmes all just need an honest and non-partisan review. It's hard to judge just based on numbers arriving in the UK. Because the number attempting fluctuates all the time. Be interesting to hear what the French intercept numbers are. And whether this is improving under the new scheme

I'm not sure we've got enough information to make that decision as things stand. That's the risk of course.

Yeah exactly like that 😁 And I might also let it run for more than 4 months before writing it off as a bad job.

That's an argument for further negotiations with the French authorities and looking at whether there is any claw back mechanism as part of the agreement of a review finds it's underperforming. Not for sticking warships in the channel! 😁

It'll be a language thing probably? I'd hazard a guess that English is the most widely spoken language across legal and illegal migrants/asylum seekers. We could all start speaking Welsh maybe? It might help when we visit Wales too as we all know they revert to Welsh whenever they hear an English accent 😁

I'm not sure I've ever fretted about anybody perishing in the channel. Personally I think if you're daft enough to try and cross one of the world's busiest sea lanes in a rubber dinghy, then you shouldn't be surprised when it goes horribly wrong. I'd be very happy with zero crossings starting this afternoon. I just don't think causing a major international incident with France and Belgium is the best solution. Or using an overstretched Royal Navy and no doubt enormous cost. We'd immediately alienate the people who are most likely to be able to help us fix the problem. And we'd not get that trust back for a long, long time. The idea of plonking some boats there as a deterrent and part of the solution isn't necessarily a bad idea. But could this not be a properly resourced border force for example?

I can't listen to this as I fear it will engage me! 🤣

Just having a read. I think it's fair to say that there a few points Id gently critique! I particularly liked this bit. They might have well as just written 'be reet' 😁

I read yesterday that DT has made more money in the past 2 years than in his entire life (mainly though crypto). I also read that he has filed for bankruptcy 6 times including once with his casino. How the hell does a casino go bankrupt???? This is despite being gifted $413 million by his dad. Successful businessman my arse.

Yeah I just put a bit of black insulation tape over mine whenever I'm recording a primary school playground 😁

Fucking hell. Is the penny FINALLY starting to drop? https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GtrGffha7/

That's my feeling on it too. Another couple of years arguing about bullshit instead of getting on and helping the country!

I think it's down to the individual to refuse the order if it's illegal isn't it? Rather than the Royal Navy itself?

I'm not sure the Navy can refuse can they? It's more how the French react. Can you imagine the Royal Navy towing a migrant boat into a French port and dropping them off? Maybe it might be more feasible if the French had their own hard right party in charge and came to spend sort of hardliner agreement. But not as things stand.

Hang on. Is this not just another attempt by 'the establishment' to pull the rug from under the feet of an honest, working class, man of the people? PS - the timing of Richard Tice's weird appeal yesterday is now starting to make a little more sense. PPS - Farage in Dover today apparently, talking about putting the Royal Navy in the channel to turn back migrant boats.

Ha ha - I bought a pair of these. Thought they would be useful for work on Teams calls. Wore them twice before all the stories about the sex pests started coming out and they've been gathering dust everywhere since 😁