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Memories are short; wasn't it Marshall Wace- typical brexiteer business people hypocrites- who bet against us and their own country just two years ago.
I think was when the people here who claim to have got in at 25p took advantage.
TFE- to be honest, I don't really understand what 'cancel culture' is. It just seems to be a right-wing trope and bogey-man.
However, if part of it is to do with our history and statues( you wrote something I very much disagree with a couple of weeks ago, but I was too busy to respond to)-then I disagree with you on that part.
Removing the statues of the likes of Edward Colston and Cecil Rhodes-who any reading of history reveals should not be venerated-and placing them in museums in the correct historical context with some kind of objective evaluation of their role in our past- is, in my view, the right thing to do.
This is not cancelling culture, it is evaluating and framing it with the hindsight of historical research, better understanding of our past and respect and consideration to many of our countrymen whose ancestors were mistreated by these people.
...a loser by you TFE is a badge of honour. A bloke who spends half his life ranting about leftie's (LOL) on a bb.
If you are going to have an axe to grind about something at least be able to spell it.
As to the number of ticks, it's quality that matters. All the people who ticked your comments are the same bimbos who thought Brexit would end illegal immigration, haven't got the intellectual honesty to admit they were wrong and have now jumped on this daft scheme. People, who like you, Priti Patel and Gavin whathisface couldn't think their way out of a paper bag.
Bitter? I had two pints of Nethergate in the Essex sunshine yesterday at a country pub with my beautiful immigrant wife.
Never filtered anybody-don't know where you got that from-not even the complete loonies and rabid fascists.
Free speech is one of the things that makes this country great.
Fleccy, I'm sorry to say you don't seem to understand people. People want to come to the UK cos it's better than where they come from: Rwanda isn't. I don't actually believe it is legal or possible to take any of these people to Rwanda: but even if it is, on day two or three they will start the trip back to Calais probably assisted by people smugglers.
I don't want to get into a brexit debate, cos although I'm a remainer I can see some legitimate Brexit argument.
However, one of the pups brexiteers were sold was that brexit would stop illegal immigration.
Anybody with any real world understanding knew this was the bull****.
The same bimboes now think the Rwanda plan will work.
It won't: this is beyond politics. It's just bleeding common sense: check all of human history.
People move from ****holes to better places.
actually Fleccy -you are wrong.
you can''t just ship people to Rwanda cos as soon as they get there they head back.
When the Israelis tried it with Eritreans 3959 0f the 4000 shipped out there disappeared.
This isn't about politics mate, it's about thinking.
This is thick beyond thick.
Anybody who thinks its going to work is not living in the same world as the other 8 billion of us.
lol... the four or five people posting here an alternative view have been brainwashed but all of Bozoes blindfold bimbos are completely independent thinkers, TFE you represent everything that is wrong with this country: semi-educated, bellicose, rightwing f???wit. You don't actually know anything mate. Along with the other 75% of Boris's lackey sheep bimboes on this board you hadn't heard of Rwanda till three days ago.
This is nothing to do with left or right or Brexit non-Brexit. It's just a bad idea.
Small boat people should note -
This way to Rwanda >
< That way to France
Asp-you seem like a decent bloke. But if you think what you have written here means anything or relates to anything that is going to happen in the real world, you are deluded.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/15/un-refugee-agency-condemns-johnsons-rwanda-asylum-plan
.....but more to the point; Why are we wasting money, time, good will and brain space on this absurd red herring.
It's because we are too dim, lazy, complacent and ill-disciplined to get our supposedly world-class crime agencies and M16 into a room, bang some heads together and tell them to break up the criminal networks that organise this business.
It's also because the lazy cynics who rule us know that many of the electorate-as evidenced by this board-are daft enough to have their heads turned by a vacuous, impractical , laughably bonkers scheme.
Brix- we are already paying through general taxation-bill is going up as we have tp pay for idiotic Rwanda scheme- and, mark my words, there will be consequences that our kids have to pay for.
Do I have to spell it out for you.
Half of illegal immigrants are from countries (Afghanistan, Iraq. Libya,) that we have ill-advisedly interfered with.
What's the solution? Make a stupid intervention in another country.
Derrrrr. Will we ever learn.
Brix... we are already paying for migrants: and we are shortly going to be paying a lot more for the most idiotic scheme ever dreamt up. Personally, in a general sense I believe immigration is a great thing and has been the lifeblood of our nation for 6000 years. However, I sympathise with current concerns about the lack of control of our borders which is an absolute disgrace for 20 years through governments of both colours.
Rwanda is not the answer: with all due respect, anybody who knows anything knows this. It is a disastrously thick idea which-if implemented-will come back to bite us.
...Cloud cuckoo land I'm afraid, Theo, you actually know stuff so you should know better than posting this guff about Rwanda. Yes Kagame has been a poster boy and loads of western guilt money is going in.
But the real story is this. Most of Rwanda's GDP, like Uganda's, is fencing minerals illegally taken from Eastern Congo.
I can't send you a link and it isn't on any balance sheet; but that's the whole point. In Africa, the parallel economy is the economy. There is nothing in Rwanda for asylum seekers to do unless they want to roast peanuts by the side of the road or join a militia and go to Kivu to rape people and steal diamonds.
I'm afraid the Johnson government-like many of its lackeys on this board-is massively out of its depth on this issue.
I say ' The Johnson government' because Andrew Mitchell- a decent conservative and a Rwanda expert who actually knows ****- is massively against this.
Wise up.
Mick-I'm really despairing with this one> There are all the moral aspects to it yes. But it's just so thick. It's on a completely different level of stupidity. It demonstrates ignorance of nearly every single academic discipline known to man. Maths, Economics, Demography, Geography, History.
But above all this plain bleeding common sense.
How can anybody really believe that some one from up the road in South Sudan or wherever, is going to meekly say ' Oh yeah I didn't really want to move to a first-world modern democracy where I might get a job, I'll settle for another crummy poor place.'
Anybody who knows anything about humans knows it is doomed to failure.
I predict an upsurge in illegal immigrants from Rwanda, Burundi and Congo in about a year's time.
The Rwandan idea is so thick it's almost inconceivable: the money will be spent and the people will be back at Dover 6 months later. You've got to be seriously dense to believe this is the solution to anything. Apart from all the reasons given by the Human rights brigade, everybody seems to have overlooked this.
Rwanda is a very small, overpopulated country with not many resources; these factors have caused generations of the local people to treat each other poorly culminating in genocide less than 30 years ago.
@viable. Don't really know anything about geology other than stuff gleaned from you. Spent a lot of time in Zim in the 90s when it was great. Are you still in EQT? I've stuck it out despite being 60% down and considering swamping my expensive shares with cheap ones.
...good riposte. You are right. UK OK- but let's not be too smug. Someone seems to have taken exception to something. Another great scene in that movie: 'Always look on the bright side... Never mind the nails and the thorns, think twitching feet and positive attitude.
Expecting a return to form from the Black Horse any day now.
GLA.
Gino 73- you got me there-excellent riposte. Go to the end of the movie, think 'Always look on the bright side of life', nailed wrists, twitching feet, jolly to the end.
GLA
BTW -what the hell is happening with this stock. I'm expecting a change of form fairly soon.
Struggling with the positives at the moment. Putin has turned the clock back 70 years and here at home we have a disastrously dysfunctional set-up ( you can't take a country that elects Rees-Mogg and has an heir to the throne who runs his Aston Martin on wine and cheese seriously). Whole place only hanging together because of unsung NHS heroes, some quality universities , great scientists and innovators , superb intellectual heritage, great arts scene and everyday folk plodding on.
GLA.
.......in the absence of a stronger hypothesis.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/business/diamond-platnumz-in-another-deal-with-airtel-tanzania-3780058