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Fool! I'm no fan of his hence I won't be attending, you think he hasn't got funding already, how do you think all the big PA systems and projectors are going to appear there, by magic?

I'm just off out with a cross of St George flag on my back so unable to reply further today, especially after the drink.

Because he needs more cash? A holiday in Spain again?

There's lots of wrong in the world, which is the biggest, which is the better to right? If you think that this is some sort of invasion wait until the weather really warms up.

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Also why is it predicted to be the biggest march/protest in the history of living man to take place in London, led by Yaxley-Lennon on the 13th of September. Note, I've been offered a lift but I'm not going.

Really, check out a blogger called Rick Gannon former police officer and now one of the biggest buy to let landlords in the Midlands, watch his video about him point blank refusing a 50% uplift on his rental properties from the government to turf out his long standing residents to house these people. If you can't see what's happening is wrong I give up with you.

Now you're off down whataboutary Street.

No. The film is about the 80's, you're scapegoating a small section, how about just taking another section, say where Milky is beaten to a pulp by a racist? If you take the text out of context you are left with a con.

They weren’t rundown hotels until the previous government and the current government started paying hotel owners over the odds to house these people.

Chill pill! So a film made years ago that won many awards for its brutal honesty, and a Prime minister considered by some to be one of the greats of this country didn't predict what was coming/happening?

No run down or any hotels in affluent areas? Nimby-ism?

Chill pill. On what you posted no.

Just wait until the government are forced by the high court to stop using those slum hotels to house these people. I'll ask another question, where do you think they will be housed next? Also could someone tell me why some towns/cities are full of illegal immigrants and others have few or none? Wait till the come to live in your area! I live in a sleepy village in Suffolk but still do a lot of work in the Staffordshire Moorlands, guess what, you would be hard pressed to find an illegal immigrant, go into Stoke on Dope and there's hotels full of them, the cynic in me suggests the more affluent areas dont and won't have them, whys that?

Absolutely, and we are seeing one downside of Brexit with the loss of immigrant labour prepared to harvest crops that natives aren't prepared to. I've worked with Eastern Europeans on some of those jobs, and their work ethic puts us to shame.

Though ignoring that 94% of UK immigrants are authorised, and out of the rest many are seeking asylum and sanctuary in the UK from wars and persecutions elsewhere - immigration as a whole to the UK can be predicted to happen. The last government and this one have encouraged about 1 million immigrants a year. With that number there will be those that come along for the ride when they are not meant to. I guess that is predictable. The predictions are that with the UKs flat to falling birth rates we 'need' immigrants to sustain the system as our home grown population falls - governments will keep authorising a lot of immigrants to feed the system for good while yet.

Indeed it was, but the problem is that it's a very fine line between realism and warnings of impending problems against being labelled Racist/Xenophobic. This country has long been a melting pot of races and religions, and I believe that in the past, immigrants tried to integrate and become members of the wider community. With the greater numbers coming in, and encountering a less tolerant attitude ( coupled with the Professional Complainers being offended on behalf of various nationalities ) I believe it's leading to more and more enclaves of various Ethnic groups being formed. There is the danger of what we might call " native " ( blimey, we're a mixture French, Scandinavian, what have you, with a German/Greek Royal Family ) residents being overwhelmed. Listen to Enoch Powell's speeches, they were warnings, not calls to arms. Sadly, some of the more ardent and vocal opponents of immigration are not the most shining examples of humanity, shall we say.

I guess that with 60 or 70 years of TV we can pick and chose which clip to focus on and say "look they knew", and likewise there will be many clips that we can pick and chose from to show "look they had no clue". This of course has accelerated with the number of clips and posts on the internet - somewhere someone will be a genius for predictions, but 99% will be seen as idiots. So with hindsight we can be very selective. A couple or 3 examples: Nostradamus the French fortune teller has his verse interpreted after an event with all saying "look he knew"... and a few years later the same verse is looked at in hindsight again and applied to a different event. Same words but different events. Could also look to politics the 'massive' benefits of Brexit or the doom and gloom of Brexit - one side knew, the other didn't, one side can say "told you so" whichever way the future pans out in the next 5 years, but about half the population will be wrong with the view they had at the time. The Simpsons! Often after the event hailed as a genius show for the predictions that have happened in reality.

Ok, to celebrate my new truck, here in chronological order are my pick ups. We are missing a turbo red hilux between the other red one and the navarra, but you can’t have everything. Yellow P100 97/98 ish as a starting point.

Don't talk to me like I'm some sort of cnut, I asked a question, that being, was the current crisis of illegal immigration predicted years ago.

OK if you don't like or understand "argument " a discussion might be better. Put together what you mean rather than soundbites, then no one will come at it from an incorrect assumption on what you mean otherwise we get tangential posts.

Why are we talking about hindsight? Surely the two links I've posted are from years ago, before the current issue with illegal immigrants?

Been meaning to get a chronological line up of the trucks at some point. P100 hilux hilux navarra land rover ranger ranger ranger ranger. i’ll work on it this weekend.

Everything is predictable in hindsight.

Everything is predictable a ways off. When the clouds darken we expect rain. The issue is not lack of foresight, it's lack of will to change behavior today. Same principal applies to individuals and the collective. Recent history is replete with great examples of this "sin of sloth". Take the second Trump election. The establishment had all the good evidence their woke direction was leading to failure at the box, but they ran the woke candidate all the same. Another glaring example is Ukraine. The conclusion was set in stone at the start. All it took was a quick look at the known figures, military capacity, manpower, resources etc and an honest appraisal of the geopolitical alliances. Yet another example, Covid. Yet another example, Tories. Yet another example, Labour. Yet another example, green energy.