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Last known crossovers…

Daily, 11th Feb 2025

Weekly, 23rd Jan 2023

Monthly –guesstimate, 31st Dec /25 > Early Feb 2026.

Subject to the outcome Budget....rising inflation etc.

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Steady on STP, You will macaroni your pants.....

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Typo, won't, not want..

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Paddy.."I just walked past a full ev London bus. Its a fantastic site."

jeez, it's you that needs to get out more but, promise me you want go out alone....!

Darth.

An order has been signed increasing the grant, which will be available for people in the asylum system waiting for a decision on their claim before Sept 28.

It is aimed at easing pressure on the asylum system and cutting costs. The Irish Times reported that processing an asylum claim costs the government about €122,000 per person, including accommodation and other costs.

The latest figures showed that 1,159 people had dropped their claims and left Ireland by the middle of September under the old, less generous return scheme this year – a 129 per cent increase on the same period in 2024.

Ireland, which is experiencing a chronic housing crisis, is struggling to adapt to its transformation from a country of emigration to a country of immigration.

Last month, Irish police said violent political extremism was on the rise after anti-migrant riots and arson attacks on asylum centres.

Last year there were a record 18,560 asylum claims in Ireland, which has a population of about 5.3 million. About 30 per cent of those were granted.

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"" Ireland will offer asylum-seeking families up to €10,000 to drop their claims and return home.

The government plans to increase the amount given per person from €1,200 (£1,046) to €2,500 and a maximum of €10,000 per family.

The British version of the scheme offers up to £3,000 to migrants without permission to stay in the UK.

Opponents said Micheál Martin’s change to the voluntary returns scheme was a “Right-wing dog whistle dressed up as efficiency”.

But the Taoiseach dismissed the criticism from the Social Democrats as “excessive, extreme language” and said it was “misplaced”.

Mr Martin said it “made sense” to set up a system for people to be sent home if their asylum claim was going to be unsuccessful.

He added: “If people are seeking asylum, and in their heart of hearts know that they are not going to receive it, it could be economic migrants or whatever, the idea of giving people a helping hand to return or to be integrated to where they return to makes sense to me, both for the individuals concerned, but also for the broader system here in terms of the cost.”

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...to offer up to €10k to migrant families if they drop asylum claims

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eejit's

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I can almost hear the young, ones saying in a few years time , remember when we used to get food deliveries...!?

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Just give none Brits ID cards....food deliveries, lol, it would be like Bobby Ewing getting out of the shower

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I find jokes about Vegans tasteless...

:)

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I hope most of the assets of the five gang members, Bulgarians, who stole more than £50 million in false benefit claims over a period of nearly five years are recovered.

Scams & Scandals;

Britain's Biggest Benefit Scam.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00200yg/scams-scandals-britains-biggest-benefit-scam

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Helped recover £500m lost to fraud, government says...

A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal.

More than a third of the money clawed back related to fraudulent activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, with other cash being recouped from unlawful council tax claims and illegal subletting of social housing.

The government will announce later that a new AI tool which has helped to identify the fraud will now be licensed to other countries, including the US and Australia.

Civil liberties campaigners have previously criticised the Labour government for its use of AI in trying to counter fraud.

The Cabinet Office says the £480m recovered in the 12 months from April 2024 is the largest sum ever reclaimed by government anti-fraud teams in a single year.

The savings have been made by cross-referencing information held by different government departments, as well as using a new AI tool.

Ministers say the savings will now be used to recruit nurses, teachers and police officers.

Of the total sum recovered, £186m was related to Covid fraud.

Ministers have long vowed to claw back some of the money lost during the pandemic, but the £186m recouped is a fraction of the amount Labour has previously said was missing.

Before last year's general election, the now-Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed more than £7bn of public money was lost to fraud during the pandemic.

These savings include the blocking of hundreds of thousands of companies with potentially fraudulent Bounce Back Loans from dissolving.

Bounce Back Loans were loans of up to £50,000 set up by the government during the pandemic to support businesses.

But the scheme has been criticised for not being diligent enough and effectively inviting fraud, as companies that dissolve before paying back the money often then do not need to repay anything.

The Cabinet Office says one case it found involved a woman who invented a company and then sent the loan money to Poland.

Anti-fraud summit

Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons will announce the savings at an anti-fraud summit held jointly by the UK, the US, Canada and Australia on Wednesday.

He said "cutting-edge AI and data tools" would ensure the government can protect public funds and not "line the pockets of scammers and swindlers".

The new AI tool, called the Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator, was developed by researchers in the Cabinet Office and will now be rolled out across other government departments.

The Cabinet Office said the tool "scans new policies and procedures for weaknesses before they can be exploited" and claims it could make policies "fraud-proof" before they are implemented.

It was developed because of concern within Whitehall about the level of fraud seen during the pandemic.

read more;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

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Paddy, with respect, take your caravan elsewhere.

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Chips. may the force be with you...

juts sick of these politcians and these so news outlets.... the ""ere's 2k and your leaving"", had been going on for years but as per usual they chose not to report it so thats parliament for you.

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Simpleton, the article states

“The British parking industry employs approximately 82,000 people, surpassing the 73,490 regular forces members in the army.”

It does not state,

“ Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, reserves, Gurkhas, and specialist units, the total Armed Forces strength is over 181,000. Add to that the 56,000 civilian staff working for the Ministry of Defence—handling logistics, intelligence, procurement, and scientific research—and you’re already well beyond the parking sector.

And then there’s the intelligence services: MI5, MI6, and GCHQ collectively employ an estimated 17,000–20,000 personnel, though exact figures are classified. These are the people monitoring threats, intercepting communications, and safeguarding national infrastructure—none of whom wear uniforms or show up in basic headcounts.”

Stay off the weed, you would give an ass headache…

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Broadcaster injects £847m of licence fee revenue to steady gold-plated retirement scheme.

Joke..

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Hey Putin! You can't park them Drones there...

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... has more parking officers than soldiers as councils rake in billions.

Parking officers now outnumber full-time soldiers in Britain as cash-strapped councils rake in billions from motorists’ fines, data show.

The British parking industry employs approximately 82,000 people, surpassing the 73,490 regular forces members in the army.

Meanwhile, separate figures show council fines and charges on motorists reached nearly £2.4bn a year in 2024-25, of which the councils raked in £1.18bn in profit.

Councils made £1.4bn in fines from on-street parking and £876m from council-run car parks according to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The British Parking Association said the industry employed a similar number of people to the level recorded in research from 2013, when that figure stood at 82,000.

At the same time, the size of the armed forces has shrunk year on year, falling from 110,000 in the regular army in 2010 down to around 73,000 today.

Drivers were charged £2.38bn by English councils for parking in 2024-25, up from £2.07bn in 2023-24 and £1.76bn in 2019-20.

Councils in London brought in £1bn in income, making up 46pc of the total in England.

Local authorities are facing growing debt burdens and many are searching for new ways of squeezing existing revenue sources to balance their books..

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Hard, "Give foreigners £2,000 of tax payer’s cash?"

This has been going on for years, it's nothing new.

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