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Thread | Bare Faced Lies
at 20:08 4 Aug 2025
I listen to Angela Eagle, A Government Minister today say on the Today Programme that the Government had returned over 30,000 migrants this year.
I looked up the Governments own figures. Forced returns are about 9,000 and voluntary leavers are around 25,000.
Now these 25,000 are classified as either subject to removal action or immigration control, the latter means they had visas. These people left on their own accord.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-endi [Post edited 4 Aug 20:14]
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Thread | Care Home Costs £££s
at 12:13 23 Jul 2025
A friend has just put her parents in a care home, both have dementia. The fees for both are £15,000 a month.
She is in the process of selling her parents house. My dad paid £600,000 in fees over 11 years including selling his house. The man in the room next to him had his fees paid by the government as he had no assets.
This prompted the question of how many people sell their houses to pay for care, the Government has refused to provide these figures! But estimates are all in the region of 50,000 a year in the UK.
The average house price is about £250,000. So that is a whopping £12.5 Billion a year without taking into consideration savings and pensions used to fund care.
Next time someone says old people have too much money tied up in property.......... |
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Thread | Press Access to the US President
at 17:21 25 Jun 2025
An interesting discussion on the Radio 4 Media Show, started off with an exchange about the NATO summit and what Trump had to say, BBC presenter asked if the press conference was chaotic, talk about bias.
Then it got interesting US Correspondent said actually the press conference is so much better under Trump, 'we get access to Trump and can ask him whatever we want to. Under Biden access was strictly controlled and only a small number of vetted questions were allowed'.
We complain about what Trump says, under Biden there was apparently no real access or transparency, we had no idea what was going on with Biden.
It is on BBC Sounds if you want to hear the full discussion. [Post edited 25 Jun 17:23]
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Thread | The Absurdity of It All
at 13:01 30 May 2025
We get all sorts of messages from our politicians and journalists.
Europe stands with Ukraine is one we have been fed many times in many forms. The reality however is very different while people die on the battlefield European politicians are busy pumping money into Russia.
The EU sent 73 billion dollars to Ukraine in aid but paid Russia 233 billion dollars for fuel.
Russian exports of gas to the EU grew by 20 percent in 2024.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxk454kxz8o#comments [Post edited 30 May 13:10]
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Thread | Small Acts Of Defiance
at 18:50 9 May 2025
Restrictions on our abilities to protest and express our opinions in writing have led me to start small thinking of small acts of defiance.
Today I have started to acknowledge courteous drivers letting me out into traffic with a Hitler salute rather than a friendly wave. Nobody seems to mind and lots of friendly smiles and gestures indicate to me that people are ready to recreate the Third Reich, if only at road junctions.
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Thread | Congreve
at 17:15 7 May 2025
Apparently he's picking the next Pope.
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Thread | Immigration Costs an example
at 12:03 2 May 2025
Yesterday about 900 people crossed the channel, the Government is now paying an average of £41,000 a year to house an illegal migrant.
In housing costs alone that will cost us nearly £37 Million a year just for one days crossings, at 900 a day the bill is £13.5 Billion.
Those who say illegal migration is not a problem are at best misled.
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Thread | Steel, Aluminium, Fertiliser and Petrol Chemicals
at 14:03 28 Mar 2025
All getting outsourced from the UK in the name of decarbonisation when we are still using these products.
Now Primary Steel in the UK is under threat just when we want to expand our defence industry.
Madness! |
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Thread | Vipotnik
at 18:55 8 Mar 2025
Much better under Sheehan, a few decent attempts today following a quick piece of control, looking like he could be a decent option for us.
It must be soul destroying to be an attacker watching the pointless sideways and backwards nonsense that we saw under Williams. |
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