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LTI… “There are none so blind as those who fail to see”

You’re missing the point… they stop being an asylum seeker the minute they enter the UK without documentation. Then they become an illegal immigrant. It isn’t rocket science.

SK of course they can claim asylum, but that’s only if they have their passport or identity documents. If they don’t then they are here undocumented therefore illegally. Why would they want to hide their identity? Surely being able to prove you are fleeing persecution would be paramount and a fast track to being granted asylum.

You have to laugh at the loonies and mutants on the left out protesting for anti racism and in the next breath calling for the destruction of a certain state and its people. Then we now have them upset at illegal migrants being called illegal and want them to be called undocumented which is of course illegal to enter any country undocumented lol and last but not least they lost their wigs at people being called coloured back in the day and said they must be labelled black, but just recently they then changed their minds as not all are black some are brown or even tanned so they now wish us to call them “people of colour”… oh you mean coloured then ffs … every time you hear someone say person of colour if you are white then ask them oh so does that include me and watch them backtrack lol

Aren’t lol

SK… there is an international standard on seeking asylum and that’s you seek it in the first safe country that you enter… I’m not great at geography, but I’m quite sure Syria, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan are part of the UK. I’ll gladly apologise if they are.

“ Sir Alex will assume responsibility for overseeing BT’s regulatory interactions with Ofcom, ensuring that the company’s engagements align with both strategic objectives and compliance mandates”

Sounds to me like a deal is being struck between BT and OFCOM before any announcement. With altnets dropping like flies then OFCOM are going to need BT’s help mopping up the mess.

“Openreach’s exchange footprint is a legacy of the original Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) rollout, which began over a century ago. Openreach leases space in c. 5,600 BT exchanges to provide services to CPs, and CPs can interconnect at any of these exchanges to pick up traffic.”

Fleccy, the person I spoke to is involved with exchange closure and he mentioned the ‘footprint’.

He said that BT pays per square metre for any space within the exchange where equipment is sited and as it is removed then the cost in that exchange decreases. I thought they just lease the building and that’s that, but it seems there is more to it than my simplistic view.

As fleccy will affirm, a large amount of BT debt is the lease liabilities of the BT estate and not actual debt per se..

I can announce to those with no real working knowledge of the exchange closures and sell offs, that every exchange in the country has had an internal survey and are currently being stripped of any furniture and assets including redundant transmission and switching equipment.

BT isn’t waiting for 2025. BT has employed 3 compaction managers (North Midlands South) to oversee the project in the exchanges to start the heavy cable recovery of E sides across the country and is being carried out by external contractors.

Apparently exchanges are already resembling the Marie Celeste.

So you won’t be coming to the next Unite the UK rally on October 26th outside Downing Street then lol

I’m not bigoted on migrants my dad was one ffs lol but he came here at 18, got a job then a wife then a family and worked here for 45 years for the MOD. The only benefit we got was family allowance at 45p per child.

Those coming here illegally are criminals first and foremost and possibly worse when peeling away their identities. Why come illegally when last year 1.5 million arrived legally? Make it make sense.

Students can bring their families.. why? I’m all for genuine refugees especially when us and the US have caused half of it.

Unfettered immigration is ridiculous and allowed since 2016 where Brexit was meant to close the borders. I was a remainer because I welcomed and still do hard working migrants like the Poles whose grandfathers made up the bulk of spitfire pilots in the Battle of Britain. We owe them our freedom.

However there’s a very dark side to unfettered immigration of young men and no one wants to discuss it, except when something makes the 10 o’clock news involving them. There was a debate recently on rising Mysogyny… hmmm I wonder why. When you import millions of people who class women as less than dogs then you reap what you sow. The same blind eye was turned for 30 years with grooming gangs.

Last word on the WFA..arguments are made saying that people get it who don’t need it and of course that’s true. However the government have announced breakfast for every school child. I can get behind that, but of course many of those children will come from families who are well off too so don’t need it… Chicken and egg…

Sorry SM my pigeon hole reply was to SK.. but yeah I agree I should look to reduce my tax burden but then I see it as helping my grandkids schooling and such. Cheers.

SM, cheers. I do indeed have SS Ida’s and filled with my pension tax free allowance over the last few years.

It’s not a case of pigeon holing, it’s a case of simple mathematics. The 10 million that have arrived in only 8 years will all one day be Pensioners. A large majority are in their 40s and 50s now so it won’t be long until they’re claiming the pension benefits because they won’t have been paying into the system long enough to get the full pension. How many parents have tagged along who are probably claiming it already.

Throw in our own ageing population and it won’t be too far in the future that the tipping point arrives when there are more taking than giving… and it’s our kids who will be left in the Shiite.

Farage is a bluffer.. he hates the working class. He’s only interested in disgruntled tories. He sold the country down the river with Brexit.

I’m ex military SK, I’ve lived in plenty of different places and countries. Difference is myself and family weren’t a drain on finite resources and we paid our way in the system and still do..I’m years off state pension but draw down on 3 separate pensions right now but still work so pay a fortune in tax that goes on people who will never pay in and don’t intend to. Simple mathematics, if you arrive here and don’t contribute to the system then get a job or go home.

It’s already under a different lens SK… Labour won’t discuss it lol

Whilst that is true, it’s about 1 million of the 10 million. Those 1 million also get free rent, council tax, dentistry.. because they’ve never paid into the system in their lives, or very little. That’s why they will get it. The rest of the pensioners and the majority are not millionaires or rich and will be getting income just above the threshold but still have rent mortgages council tax etc to pay as well so the poorest 1 million are disproportionately actually better off anyway.

Anyway let’s not derail the march to £1.67…