So as well as completing the stitch-up over Sizewell and Hinkley (as discussed here many, many times), there's Macron's new "one out, one in" plan for the small boats.
Let's see if I've got this right.
So for every illegal that arrives on these shore that we send straight back, we must grant asylum to a "genuine" one.
But as we know, many of these people keep setting out, over and over again, until they succeed.
So. on a ratchet basis, one single illegal can be 'recycled' endlessly, to offload as many "genuines" from France as they are quickly able to turn him around for another crossing .. .. ?
Oh come on, Starmer can't be that stupid .. can he? Please?
ND
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It is the inevitable law of the post-Thatcher years, the factories close, the borders open, and what someone calls "affordable family formation" becomes less and less likely.
The new arrivals will staff the vape shops and "International Stores" of our new High Streets. I got a distinct "the centre cannot hold" vibe from this BBC piece, which I was hoping might persuade BQ to come out of retirement:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9097lwxg9o
In Germany, they have to have signs in the public swimming pools asking the "New Germans" not to pinch the bottoms of pre-adolescent children. Naturally the poster shows a German-looking assaulter - no stereotyping here! There are other posters showing a blonde girl pulling down a boys shorts - a fairly unlikely scenario IMHO.
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I think it may be more blinkered than stupid - the European leaders, paragons of trustworthiness, they'd never do anything like that...
It's a modern version of "solid chaps", or honesty boxes, which work fine until you encounter a politician, or a lawyer...
I suppose we could put Kemi in a speedboat with an AK47. But I don't think she would last long.
Resume the Rwanda notion - like transportation in the old days but lots more expensive. They would still keep coming and the lawyers get yet fatter.
The real problem is we speak English, very popular language. So, simples, the English all learn Old Norse and all government forms and benefits and education etc convert to Old Norse. Applications on parchment with quill pen only. The Scots, Welsh and NI can do their own thing so long as it's Old Norse. The objective is to be an unattractive difficult place to live. Slowly we are succeeding, just a little more effort.
As the man said, English is merely French badly pronounced, too similar, so be different - very different.
Well Starmer is determined to "bring the UK and Europe closer together", and what better proof of his honest intention than to say "yes" to everything?
Norwegian is pretty Norse, yet the east half of Oslo is very Pakistani Muslim.
As VS Naipaul wrote more than 40 years ago now in Among The Believers:
"The business was organised. Like accountants studying tax laws, the the manpower-export experts of Pakistan studied the world's immigration laws and competitively gambled with their emigrant battalions: visitor's visas overstayable here (most European countries), dependants shippable there (England), student visas convertible there (Canada and the United States), political asylum to be asked for there (Austria and West Berlin), still no visas needed here, just below the Arctic Circle (Finland). They went by the planeload. Karachi airport was equipped for this emigrant traffic ... Abroad, the emigrants threw themselves on the mercies of civil liberties organisations. They sought the protection of the laws of the countries where the planes had brought them. They or their representatives spoke correct words about the difference between poor countries and rich, South and North. They spoke of the crime of racial discrimination and the brotherhood of man. They appealed to the ideals of the alien civilisations whose virtues they denied at home. And in the eyes of the faithful there was no contradiction. Home was home, home wasn't like outside; ecumenical words spoken outside didn't alter that."
Our ruling classes have figured out that they have little or no use for Jack & Jill Average. No point in spending a lot on education because just-as-good products and services can be financed offshore. So don't, but let the private sector do a fair job of turning home grown sows ears into apparent silk purses - few of whom are genuinely useful. They just have a few more certificates, written in Latin and can take seats in our Establishment and play the game.
So, for our ruling class there is really little problem with small boats turning up. The boats hold entrepreneurial spirits - even if of the illegal kind. All makes work for the apparatus of the state to fail to control (deliberately) and allow the DM, DT etc to fulminate uselessly creating vote stirring fear and worry among the pearl clutching classes. The less the local dullard stock reproduce the better, a new more vicious hard nosed stock is required - until they start upsetting the present ruling class.
The real problem is the economy. Big is beautiful with large - very large - corporate assets that can play little itty bitty governments off one against the other whilst feeding them very little. Look around and see Trump and Xi as the big farmers controlling their large herds. The rest just have little sheep fields dotted here and there.
Not even Nigel will stop the boats.
@Jim - there is a method to stop the boats, it's just it'll cause a lot of ructions.
Identity cards and a clampdown on cash. Best of luck to the government trying that though.
How many weeks before the press pick up on ND's recycling observation?
I gave it late August when investigates, and finds Yusuf Bloggs has been crossing the Channel on a more reliable basis than the ferries.
What headline do you reckon? The Gift That We Keep On Giving? Hear Me If You've Stopped This One Before? Starmer of Fools? Beware of Macrons Bearing Gifts?
Oh, and the Gregg Wallace autism defence has me wishing I was still in a band.
The potential lyrics are already bubbling through my skull... The BBC bosses should a grip/I shouldn't be cancelled/I should be on PiP/come on ladies it was just all bantz/you usually laugh when I drop my pants
Appropos blog stats and AI scraping.
At least some blogs/comment sources look useful. This one and the FT and a few others. But a lot of dreck out there too. I doubt it is difficult to identify the mouthfoamers or the soap opera blogs. But what would you do with the info from a wisely filtered blog trawl? Feed it to The White House, or Number 10 or 174 Chang'an Avenue?
As said by someone 'the best argument against democracy is a 5 minute chat with a member of the public'. The better blogs do tell you the things that won't work but very very few suggest workable ideas. The location of those is not so much hidden as non existent.
I for one am very glad to see the back of GW.
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