6 coppers to take him down or 1 member of the public with his bike? 
 

 

 

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Probably not. 

Similarly Starmer and Philips organising a poster campaign pre-election saying Sunak doesn't want to lock up paedophiles won't have helped neither.

Lock them all up then. 

Yeah that wasn't a great moment. For once I did agree with McDonnell and it was just ripping off the Tory strategy.

And I'm not sure Philips was high enough up in the election strategic planning to have organised it herself given she wasn't even in the shadow cabinet at the time having resigned her position.

3 hours ago, bolty58 said:

There's a mucky fantasy in there somewhere. Go on, admit it.

summat definitely very wrong with you

14 minutes ago, wakey said:

summat definitely very wrong with you

Just try and get him started on men kissing in television programmes.

It's like that Little Britain sketch with the WI women vomiting.

It’s been quiet on the boat people lately. What happening, have we smashed the gangs? 

If you are that interested in the actualities - here's an interesting read from December last year

 https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/labours-pledges-on-migration-the-data/

20 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

If you are that interested in the actualities - here's an interesting read from December last year

 https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/labours-pledges-on-migration-the-data/

Interesting indeed, so as soon as the Rwanda scheme was scrapped crossing increased. Must have just been a coincidence. 

 

 

Edited January 8, 20251 yr by royal white

Ok, Mark Twain.

The whole article doesn't qualify your narrative analysis.

Plough on a bit more.

7 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Ok, Mark Twain.

The whole article doesn't qualify your narrative analysis.

Plough on a bit more.

The whole article isn’t about boat people…..

Just now, royal white said:

The whole article isn’t about boat people…..

Yes, it isn't a Daily Mail article that's correct.

8 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Yes, it isn't a Daily Mail article that's correct.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s brilliant 😂😂👏🏻

Can someone else tell RW how he's boringly missed the point again?

I'm off for dinner.

 

4 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Can someone else tell RW how he's boringly missed the point again?

I'm off for dinner.

 

Tea

4 minutes ago, Spider said:

Tea

I'm eating out before seeing a show with a client. It's dinner.

8 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Can someone else tell RW how he's boringly missed the point again?

I'm off for dinner.

 

I don’t know why anybody bothers  with RW, just ignore him…...

 

couple of weeks later 

 

Can someone tell RW…….

 

Bless, he doesn’t half confuse himself. 

2 hours ago, royal white said:

Interesting indeed, so as soon as the Rwanda scheme was scrapped crossing increased. Must have just been a coincidence. 

 

 

At a guess I’d say continued Israel military attacks on civilians and the fall of Syria to an Islamic group would be two big factors. There must still be plenty coming from Afghanistan as well. 

16 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

At a guess I’d say continued Israel military attacks on civilians and the fall of Syria to an Islamic group would be two big factors. There must still be plenty coming from Afghanistan as well. 

Are there any figures showing Palestinians coming here via the channel? 

25 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

At a guess I’d say continued Israel military attacks on civilians and the fall of Syria to an Islamic group would be two big factors. There must still be plenty coming from Afghanistan as well. 

Vietnamese are by far the highest demographic coming on small boats.

Albanians won't be behind.

The fall of Syria certainly isn't behind the increase.

Cooper followed some of her European compatriots in stopping applications from Syrian folk, and this happened after the increase in numbers started.

If anything, as this "ban" takes full effect, it should bring the numbers down a bit.

Whether any arriving by boat will be instantly returned, as they can't apply, I doubt very much.

Whatever the reasons behind the crossings, they're not going to significantly reduce, let alone stop, any time soon.

29 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

At a guess I’d say continued Israel military attacks on civilians and the fall of Syria to an Islamic group would be two big factors. 

There might be other factors but those won't be

Id say the biggest factor will be the drug and money laundering gangs requiring more employees. 

From war-torn Vietnam and Kurdistan of course.

18 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Id say the biggest factor will be the drug and money laundering gangs requiring more employees. 

From war-torn Vietnam and Kurdistan of course.

Yep

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Id say the biggest factor will be the drug and money laundering gangs requiring more employees. 

From war-torn Vietnam and Kurdistan of course.

@Trafcan you do a week in each?

2 hours ago, Spider said:

Tea

Always wondered what they call dinner ladies down south. Lunch ladies doesn't sound right!

40 minutes ago, tomski said:

@Trafcan you do a week in each?

Of course.

8 hours ago, wakey said:

summat definitely very wrong with you

Spooky. I was about to type the very same about you.