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That doesn't say to me he is going to scrap the current model and replace it with an insurance based systems just depends how you want to interpret it.

And speaking on 18 April Mr Farage addressed Labour’s claims head on, saying: “On the NHS, they’re putting out literature saying ‘Vote Reform and they’ll charge you fifteen grand for a hip replacement’. We’ve never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free.”

When asked about Labour’s claims, Reform UK told Full Fact: “Our policy is to always keep the NHS free at the point of use.” And Reform UK’s 2024 election manifesto made the same commitment, saying: “Services will always be free at the point of use.”

However, Mr Farage has also said repeatedly that he believes the NHS’s funding model should be rethought. On 28 March, while again saying he believed the service should be free at the point of delivery, he reportedly told the BBC: “Everyone knows we are not getting value, let’s re-examine the whole funding model and find a way that’s more efficient.”

He was quoted in the Times in January as saying: “I was given almost pariah status for suggesting the NHS model isn’t working. I haven’t shifted my position. We’ve got to identify a system of funding for healthcare that is more effective than the one we have currently got, and at the same time carries those who can’t afford to pay.”

Harmprof,

It is $87 to $90mill in cash but then you have to include the debt write off as part of the sale around $56 mill making $143-$146 mill. If they only received $90 mill but had to pay the debt off themselves then the sale price would have been $41 to$44 mill. You can't disregard the debt repayment and say it sold for $90 mill that is wrong.

Probably right Dorfan and they will probably move him away from Epping so he is free to assault someone else's daughter.

An asylum seeker staying at a hotel in Essex that became the focus of protests has been jailed for 12 months for the assault of a 14-year-old girl and a woman.

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, from Ethiopia, who had been living in the Bell hotel in Epping, was found guilty last month of two counts of sexual assault and one of attempted sexual assault, committed days after arriving in the UK on a small boat.

This guy gets 12 months for sexual assault and Lucy Connolly gets 31 months for a tweet she took down after an hour and apologised for. About right in 2TK justice system:)

Harmprof,

There has been many on here critical of JLPs communication myself included you aren't telling many of us anything new.

AI is fine for fact checking but then form an opinion from it don't just copy and paste it at us that isn't discussion.

Gotreal is right the chrome/pgms production maybe relevant for the last FY and maybe the first half of this year but after that it is irrelevant. You would be better just concentrating on Copper and take any cash/profit from the dying embers of the pgms/chrome side as a bonus.

Now whether they can deliver on copper the jury is out as they have had a pretty poor track record on that front but with the injection of cash they will receive and the plans and potential of the copper assets they have also with JMK being more influential I for one am prepared to let go of the past and judge them on their performance from now on.

Back to watching and waiting and it shouldn't be long now:)

Bloomers what you the have to do is disapply the Refugee convention act which stops illegals claiming asylum as soon as they set foot on British soil but you still have to deal with the HRA.

Maybe the UK could put something in place where an appeal goes through for a right to a family life and fails but then changing it to can't be deported for torture at the last minute to prevent being deported as happened with the Eritrean and is disallowed. You could make it that the best case has to be presented.

Farage will have to have a team of lawyers poring over all these kind of scenarios and how they can head them off at the pass with legislation that limits guidance for the judges so only genuine cases get through and the human rights lawyers and judges can't play fast and loose with the system.

It will be tough and will take time on top of all this cancel ILR and plus some of the things asi alluded to in Starmer's white paper and you might end up with something fit for purpose which covers both illegal and legal migration

Human Rights Act is relevant because it is intrinsic in Norther Ireland law so you can't change it without it affecting the GFA it doesn't matter that it was added after. What I tried to show is leaving the EHRC had no affect on the Windsor framework, the TCA or the GFA.

However leaving the EHRC blocks one avenue where asylum seekers can appeal to using the HRA so not all bad. I believe it would then be up to the UK how they treat the appeals but I aren't a lawyer.

As the below states Reform cannot change the human rights act as it stand without affecting the good friday agreement but they can leave the ECHR.

The frequently cited assumption that withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights would imperil the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement is mistaken, right of centre thinktank Policy Exchange argues today. The latest output from its human rights workstream, endorsed by several high-profile opponents ECHR withdrawal, states that nothing in the UK’s commitments to the peace process in Northern Ireland requires it to remain a part of the ECHR.

According to the report, only one of the two agreements making up the Good Friday Agreement refers to the ECHR, but these references all concern the domestic law of Northern Ireland and the need to provide assurances to the different parties that they will be secure from abuse of devolved power. Such assurances could be provided for in several ways after a UK withdrawal from the ECHR, such as by maintaining the Human Rights Act and the Northern Ireland Act in relation to the political institutions of Northern Ireland, the report argues.

Meanwhile, nothing in the 2023 Windsor Framework agreement prohibits the UK from withdrawing from the ECHR. 'The references to the ECHR in the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement confirm moreover that the EU (including Ireland) has in effect agreed that the UK is entitled to leave the ECHR and that it would not breach the Belfast Agreement if it left.'

One of the report's authors, Professor Richard Ekins, head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and a supporter of withdrawal, said: 'Public debate about human rights law reform has been distorted by the repeated assertion that withdrawal from the ECHR would breach the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. In fact, neither the letter nor the spirit of the Belfast Agreement in any way requires the UK – or Ireland – to remain within the ECHR. And the agreements reached with the EU after Brexit confirm the point, leaving it open to the UK to choose to leave the ECHR.'

The 2017 abolition of NHS bursaries (replaced by loans and fees), high living costs, and concerns over post-graduation pay and debt. As a result, some universities struggle to fill spots, while others have historically had to reject qualified applicants due to limited government-commissioned places.

Yet, so often the pro-immigration lobby will argue for bringing in still more immigrants, rather than addressing the policy issues which cause skills shortfalls in the first place.

This is a big issue in the NHS where we should be making it easier for our own people to train as nurses instead of continually bringing in more migrants some of which have poor English, falsified qualifications and more likely to be suspended for malpractice but let's just ignore all that and keep bringing more in.

Expect the far left to roll out migrants that earn a higher than average salary as examples of being victimised by ILR but won't bring forward whole families claiming benefits.

The Labour government sends aid to Afghanistan do you seriously think that doesn't end up in the hands of the Taliban. Do we send aid to countries like China who have nuclear weapons. If you can't handle the truth paddyk I suggest you keep quiet instead of showing yourself up to be a moron:)

Labour and the far left crying that Reform want to send Afghans back to Afghanistan as they might be tortured etc and yet they send millions in aid there which will only end up in the coffers of the Taliban.

Labour the supporter and funder of state sponsored terrorism and the previous Tory government also sent aid there. When will our governments realise that sending aid to dictatorial or terrorist led governments only lines the pockets of these people. Why do they send aid to countries with nuclear weapons? Why do they keep on doing it will they never learn?

Legache,

I suggest you look at the financials that have been produced and the RNS which have subsequently been issued and make your own assumptions.

As high as than Bloomers:)

I commented on it at the time MV when I saw who the judge was and what he represented. I said before the judgement was handed down that he would uphold the appeal.

Yes I saw it MV can't say I was surprised when I saw who the judge was.

Learn to read Paddyk and understand what you read:)

"I can't see any sane politician voting to remove their own human rights, no matter the corner they're in. The idea that Parliament could simply legislate away embedded protections—rights that underpin everything from fair trial to family life—is not just legally fraught, it's politically reckless. Would you seriously vote to have your own rights removed? Never mind, don’t answer that. You've already implied, along with others, that you'd be willing to do so—just to stop a few migrants entering the country.

That’s not reform. That’s surrendering the legal scaffolding that protects every citizen, just to chase a headline. If the cost of enforcement exceeds the cost of the problem, and the solution undermines the rule of law, then it’s not a solution at all. It’s a liability. Must ask though—how will posters cope on here when they vote away their right to free speech, opening themselves up to detention without fair trial and losing their homes without recourse?"

Seriously? Reminds me of the scaremongering remain tactics. Usual lefty rubbish taking everything to an absolute extreme ridiculous statement.

He or She or whatever the gender they identify with would be fast asleep by then:)