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So, I’ll admit to being pleased when Trump won the nomination in 2016 because it would ensure that Hillary would win 🤦‍♂️. To believe that the system is self-correcting requires you to have been in a coma for the last ten years.

What on earth do people mean when they say “uncontrolled immigration” or “open borders”? Surely they can’t mean it literally? Or do they just mean too high. Well say that then instead of spreading misinformation.

All about reducing “illegal” immigration. Not a single bloody word that they want to make life impossible for people here entirely legally by taking away their right to benefits meaning they might be destitute or have to leave what may be the only country they’ve ever known. Embarrassing.

Or the ridiculous ESTA question that asks if you’re a terrorist and you tick yes

Or both of course….

Also depending on where the reception was and how much luggage you had, you probably had to be quite brazen to do a runner.

Some of the replies to the OP say that because it was a rare occurrence, hotels just accepted it as an occasional cost of doing business.

I remember that hotels would sometimes demand your passport as security. Which only really worked if you were visiting a foreign country but was also legally dubious. It’s the property of the government that issues it so not yours to use as security.

Sometimes would demand your passport as security. Which isn’t really legal as it’s property of the government and not yours to use as security.

Has echoes of Thatcher’s conference speech when she said something along the lines of “instead of being taught moral values, children are being told that they have an inalienable right to be gay”.

Sorry you’re saying that somebody who’s lived here legally their entire life should just die if they get ill?

When you use trans people as a rhetorical device that goes beyond wanting to protect safety and dignity. And as others have pointed out it’s a complete non-sequitur.

Well maybe if you called between 8.00 and 8.05am

@sundersays.bsky.social let’s see what the fuss is about. Billericay will have to wait until another day..,

He’s very much playing the man (or woman) and not the ball. He’s not said why he thinks any of their decisions were wrong in law. Just that some judges once volunteered for a migrants rights charity and ruled in favour of somebody Jenrick dislikes.

Oh Bob, just say “black and brown”, this is taking forever.

Your piece certainly wasn’t for the faint-hearted. Maybe some marginalised groups will have to be collateral damage to save the world (if I’ve understood you correctly) but goodness me it feels like a very unpalatable Hobson’s choice. Would it work and if it did would it only be marginally less bad?

I’m inferring from this that the 90 out of 180 day rule wasn’t always enforced. After all, going through every passport to check the stamps and adding up the number of days would be very time consuming. So people were staying illegally. Wonder what the attitude towards those doing it here would be.

Have they gone off Singapore?

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

He’s also very much playing the man (or woman) and not the ball. He’s not said why he thinks any of their decisions were wrong in law.

Didn’t realise the NF was anti-abortion. Not the most important thing about it I know. Preference for ‘home grown’ people as well as old fashioned misogyny maybe?

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

In fairness to Trump he is not yet at least proposing mass deportation of lawful permanent residents which Reform and the Tories are.

And of course if you drown out what others are saying and make it impossible to hear them then you’re taking away their right to free speech. Reminded of Sunak announcing an election. An important announcement to the country by the PM that was ruined by Steve Bray.

Those who believe in open borders don’t become immigration judges. Hardly anybody believes in open borders. In such a an unequal world, immigration restrictions are a necessary evil.

Portillo Moment on crack

Farage without the charisma

Once again, gets me the no king about how many people either lie to pollsters or if it’s online just tick answers at random without bothering to read the question.

That stat cannot be right. I’m not doubting the percentage of respondents that said it but that there is any real possibility of 12% of British people moving abroad in the next 12 months even on the most flexible definition of ‘may’.