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You do wonder if Starmers ego is working overtime with this and he wants a bigger majority than Boris in 2019 for bragging rights. Apparently they really do despise each other beyond what is the norm between a PM and opposition leader. Desperation to win that dick waving competition might...

Exodus IIRC.

Err. There was an agreement in the first place. It was called the Budapest Memorandum. How can people be so stupid to believe an agreement would mean anything to Putin, if they did he wouldn’t have annexed Crimea or invaded any other part of Ukraine.

But even the governments own estimates was that they could if they wished get a quarter of it back. I understand that it was a desperate time but the fact that they believed that they could get a quarter of it back and chose not to demonstrates how they value the public purse. The failed test...

It’s up there. But you have to remember who controls the tone and why they give people like Michelle Mone a free pass. She comes from the same place as the Murdochs, the remaining Barclay brother and the Rothermeres. She’s one of them and they look after their own so have you distracted with...

That’s about the size of it. And actually for a country of our size that is a sensible amount of net migration. It grows the economy and we need to compensate for a declining fatality rate. More people in the UK celebrated their 50th birthday last year than were born in the UK by about 100k...

That’s the whole point. It’s highly unlikely to continue. The migration observatory has done some decent articles on it pointing to separate reports by both the ONS and OBR and comparing historic trends of migration to the UK and comparing to trends in comparable economies. Both the ONS and OBR...

We all make mistakes don’t we. Key is to recognise your mistakes and learn from them. Something you’re clearly not capable off.

I get bored the Tories make it so easy. Pretty sure I’m allowed an opinion and allowed to vent that opinion on any platform I care to without getting directly involved in politics past exercising my right to vote and occasionally (for what it’s worth) writing to my local MP and/or councillor. I...

I also wonder how much of the latest nett immigration figures boil down to how we record immigration following brexit. When we were in the EU no one was doing an exact count on EU citizens here under freedom of movement. I seem to recall one analyst coming to the conclusion that the actual...

In a twist from the undertaker theme. Ron and Russell Mael. Wedding planners.

See, all you’ve done there is confirm that the front line is on the doorstep of Crimea. Which is exactly what I said. For clarity Kyiv is over 800 kilometres north of that point.

Kyiv? Never. Crimea? Before Kyiv.

They’re blowing smoke up people’s arses. We’ve given an open invitation to 6.5M people from Hong Kong to come here. In fact they’ve just extended that scheme by a year because uptake wasn’t as high as the government expected/hoped for. It also quashes the notion that everyone wants to come...

This is where Sunak really has issues. He already has a big majority, in the unlikely event he wins even with a big majority nothing changes for him. He still has a lunatic fringe, his party is still a battleground and he won’t last a year as leader. The clamber for a headline to throw the...

It’s closer than Kyiv. The war is at least on its doorstep.

We’ve already had these strict conditions. It’s called the Budapest Agreement. Means shit when dealing with someone like Putin. What’s that saying about doing the same things expecting different results?

Sure I remember reading that the £120M is non refundable, not sure about the extra £20M or any subsequent payments we may have made.

IIRC the £140M is just for the properties and 5 years of maintenance. The properties were supposed to be affordable housing for Rwandans but we’ve essentially stole them, although no doubt we’ve paid over the odds for them. Even if they get a property each we’ve apparently brought 100 properties...