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Costly‼️

Your pond should on Springwatch with all that wildlife.

Destroying the Kremlin (with Putin seating at that ridiculously long table) would be better.

xx

I did make £10K when I sold some at 27p.

Should've sold 'em all!

TRO

Need 3.26p to break even m8.

Bought on that manic morning and couldn't get out before it burnt.

Hit 1.90 and then plunged..

1.77 now

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Jaywick

Good job that Nigel Farage is taking his new role as MP seriously...

Oh, wait.

"'hardened criminals are being released early to make room.' "

That's the headlines in the right wing NON DOM gutter press.

Thanks for the fact checking NOM.

👏🏼

100% in Yankee land.

The EU is planning to introduce its €7 EU visa waiver for British holidaymakers by next summer.

The scheme, which the EU confirms on its website , externalwill start "in the first half of 2025", will cover people from more than 60 non-EU countries including the UK.

In comments first reported by The Times, external, EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson suggested the visa waiver may be in place by the May half-term holiday in 2025.

She was speaking as she confirmed the Entry/Exit Scheme (EES) - which will require non-EU travellers to register fingerprints and a photo instead of having their passport stamped - will start on 10 November.

Under the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), passengers must apply for a waiver, similar to the US ESTA, before travel, and this will be valid for three years or until their passport expires, whichever is first.

It will cover travel to the Schengen Area, which includes every EU state except for Ireland and Cyprus, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

A Home Office spokesperson said it expects the EU to provide more information on the rollout of the scheme "in due course".

The update comes as the EU launched its much-anticipated EES scheme, after a series of delays.

In a statement, Ms Johansson said: "After intense dialogues with Member States, with you, with the different stakeholders – I have decided that the Entry/Exit System will enter into operations on 10 November."

She said the ETIAS visa scheme would launch six months later, according to the Times.

Ms Johansson said the EES system would mean "every single airport", "harbour" or "road into Europe" would have strict digital border controls.

More than 700 million tourists entered Europe last year, she said, and the new systems would help Europeans "sleep safer".

The rules would mean "we will know if people stay too long" and it "will make it harder for criminals, terrorists or Russian spies to use fake passports", she added.

BEEB

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Ukrainian authorities have ordered the evacuation of a key city in the Donbas region as Russian forces continue to make gains in the east of the country, despite Ukraine's ongoing offensive into Russia's Kursk region.

Officials said families with children living in Pokrovsk and surrounding villages would be forced to leave.

The head of the city's military government, Serhii Dobriak, said residents had at most two weeks to flee the Russian advance.

The strategically important city is one of Ukraine's main defensive strongholds and a key logistical hub for Kyiv's troops on the eastern front.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr40wwzd4gyo

The fact that rioters attacking mosques and trying to burn asylum seekers out of hotels can be heard chanting ‘stop the boats’ should give all politicians serious pause for thought about how simplistic narratives on immigration have been taken into the mainstream.

The UK, like a lot of post-industrial advanced economies, faces deep structural problems that lead to rising inequalities and, in the last parliament, falling living standards. It is easy to see why economic failure and decaying public services make people angry.

What is unforgivable is that politicians, who would describe themselves as mainstream, have pandered to the Farragist, far-right narrative that immigrants and asylum seekers are responsible for these problems, because, factually speaking, they are not.

Migrants are not a burden on the NHS, they are net contributors to the health service; they do not commit crime at higher rates than native populations; and they do not suppress wages or job opportunities for local people.

Thus far Starmer has been courageous and uncompromising in confronting the rioters, giving no quarter to the idea that in some ways their actions are justified or understandable.

But real courage, particularly in the face of the rising electoral fortunes of Reform UK, would be to openly challenge these fallacies about the effects of migration on UK economy and society — something that both Labour and Conservative politicians have consistently failed to do over recent decades.

https://www.ft.com/content/b1ed74d3-b9e3-49e9-990a-07a5c7544b2a

The fact that rioters attacking mosques and trying to burn asylum seekers out of hotels can be heard chanting ‘stop the boats’ should give all politicians serious pause for thought about how simplistic narratives on immigration have been taken into the mainstream.

The UK, like a lot of post-industrial advanced economies, faces deep structural problems that lead to rising inequalities and, in the last parliament, falling living standards. It is easy to see why economic failure and decaying public services make people angry.

What is unforgivable is that politicians, who would describe themselves as mainstream, have pandered to the Farragist, far-right narrative that immigrants and asylum seekers are responsible for these problems, because, factually speaking, they are not. 

Migrants are not a burden on the NHS, they are net contributors to the health service; they do not commit crime at higher rates than native populations; and they do not suppress wages or job opportunities for local people. 

Thus far Starmer has been courageous and uncompromising in confronting the rioters, giving no quarter to the idea that in some ways their actions are justified or understandable. 

But real courage, particularly in the face of the rising electoral fortunes of Reform UK, would be to openly challenge these fallacies about the effects of migration on UK economy and society — something that both Labour and Conservative politicians have consistently failed to do over recent decades.

https://www.ft.com/content/b1ed74d3-b9e3-49e9-990a-07a5c7544b2a

Posted incessantly by The FarEnd.

History

Launched in 2004, Guido Fawkes (order-order.com) is a British right-wing, tabloid-style blog founded by Paul Staines. According to the Guardian, Paul Staines is a “former member of the Committee for a Free Britain, a shadowy organization funded by Sir James Goldsmith and Rupert Murdoch.” Harry Cole is listed as part of the editorial team together with Paul Staines. Cole is also contributing editor for The Spectator and writes a gossip column for GQ.

Funded by / Ownership

The founder of Guido Fawkes (order-order.com) Paul Staines also co-founded with Jag Singh a company called Message Space, which is a profitable digital advertising agency that hosts viral marketing campaigns and sells ads across a network of political blogs. According to a Guardian interview (2011) the combined Order-Order and Message Space turnover is about £150,000 a year and allows Staines to employ a full-time advertising sales team.

Analysis / Bias

According to a Guardian interview, Political blogger aka Guido Fawkes describes himself as an ‘anarcho-libertarian, or Thatcherite on drugs.’ The blog publishes scandals related to politicians, with Guido stating its aim is to expose rumors and conspiracies of Westminster.

In review, Guido Fawkes (order-order.com) utilizes emotionally loaded language in its headlines, such as “ANDREA JENKYNS: BREXIT LEGEND” and “DOG WHISTLE LABOUR MESSAGES SENT TO MUSLIM VOTERS.” These blog posts often display social media posts from Twitter or Facebook, with Paul Staines writing short comments such as Theresa May’s policies “will mercilessly target our communities, our places of worship and all areas of our lives.” Worrying stuff…”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/guido-fawkes/

“Nigel Farage pockets £97,000 a month instantly making him the highest paid MP”

Reform, the company with Farage as majority shareholder, is a party of the people?

Give me strength

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