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the trouble is, due to the sheer size of the world, those with genuine asylym claims is a large number of people. Admitting all would require even more urbanisation to house them. If 60k a year are kept there is a new town to be built each and every year. As far as I can see its been happening that way for 2 or more decades. Being human doesn't mean being soft - practical considerations should come before compassion. The UK imports a staggering 65% of fresh produce - when farmland is converted to housing it can easily be converted back to growing crops by moving all the people who live there into a government dormitory the size of an Amazon warehouse. Vote reform - better to lose the NHS than lose at keeping our country from being overrun.

It's not at all easy to work out how much each working person puts in to the NHS - we can estimate our NI over a working life, but subtracting out for the state pension how to do that? It's so complex I'm resigned to just having whatever is offered, maybe I'll go private for small stuff like hernia ops and already forced to for denstist. I'd still rather live here than in US. There is waste in NHS and people getting it all for no input, but in America there are so many profiteers, medical excellence yes, but profiteers at every step of the way. One customer was over there, caught a chest infection, on oxygen for a bit £20000, had to haggle with his travel insurance for reimbursment. £20k for a bottle of O2 and some antibiotics. The hospital food must have been lobster, chablis, fillet steak

so good it was worth reposting

Labour largely came to power due to votes from benefit claimants and now the tail is wagging the dog. Personally I dont find my level of tax to be that bad. How can they plug the hole without more borrowing at currently quite high long rates? Benefits was the obvious one to cut, disability a thorny issue - how to show compassion without making it unaffordable. We also spend a fortune on care homes for the elderly, government paying for those with insufficient funds and those whose money runs out while in care. Its fine to spend it on the elderly and disabled if we can stomach more tax. Because of this latest setback Labour surely cant scrap the 2 child benefit cap. If Reform get in they will have to harvest the migrant organs and fly them overseas on ice to pay the bills

if only that were the case - your replies to his posts are just as tedious, you dont scroll past - if hes quoted you its always time to reply. Both as bad as each other. Probably the same person

At least SP keeps typing stuff, when most other members can't be bothered to lower themselves to your level gotta admire his stamina

For myself, attending a protest would mean losing income or a rest day, easier just to moan about stuff by typing away on the idiots lantern. At least Reform are ahead in the polls.

The Zionist terrorists drove the Brits out Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Anything short of genocide would have helped, but no the Israelis got the US election result and now they are seemingly free from any chance of prosecution. The International Criminal Court may as well not exist. So maybe in this brave new Trumpian world a proportionate Israeli response is the destruction exactly all the homes of the two million Gazans and the killing of as many as possible.

so if Hamas hadn't raped the women and girls to death 'only' murdered 1200, then the Israelis response would have been more proportionate?

Deja vu - scroll up 4 posts - if my answer didn't satisfy you it was probably because I didn't say 'no criminal conviction DT is a wonderful man, everything he stands for is righteous' They should have swabbed out her fanny soon after, but they didn't. She could be making it all up.

Obviously he didn't get put away - if she had have gone to the police straight away they could have got some DNA maybe (many women who are raped say they were too traumatised at the time to report it) - some aren't telling the truth, but some are. As it is the court found him guilty of sexual abuse and awarded damages

It wasn't that one it was the department store one - her testimony below. As I'm not a woman who's ever been raped by a powerful man I have no idea why she didn't go to the police at the time. It does seem a bit off that she waited until Trump was involved in politics, but she was no porn actress. She said she pushed him back and he again shoved her against the wall, banging her head. She described how Mr. Trump used his weight to hold her against the wall, then pulled down her tights. Ms. Carroll grew emotional as she testified. “I was pushing him back,” she said. “I was almost too frightened to think if I was afraid or not,” she added later. “His fingers went into my vagina, which was extremely painful,” Ms. Carroll testified. Then, she said, he inserted his penis.

an eye for an eye, not 300 eyes for an eye - the real terrorists have been at it for years In 1948, a group of Israeli terrorists known as Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang) assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator, in Jerusalem. Lehi viewed Bernadotte as a threat to the emerging State of Israel because they feared his peace proposals would be detrimental to their cause. Updates: Israel kills 60 in Gaza, medics search for survivors in al-Tuffah WWW.ALJAZEERA.COM Israeli attacks continue, killing dozens, even as US claims a ceasefire is possible ‘within the next week’.

A British government minister said it was appalling that the anti-Israel chants had been made at Glastonbury, and that the festival's organisers and the BBC broadcaster - which is showing the event - had questions to answer. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was also appalled by violence committed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. "I'd also say to the Israeli Embassy, get your own house in order in terms of the conduct of your own citizens and the settlers in the West Bank," Streeting told Sky News. "I wish they'd take the violence of their own citizens towards Palestinians more seriously," he said.

Iran were more into uranium, apparently 400 odd kilos of 60% enriched unaccounted for. If I was working for Iran I would suggest splitting the 400 kilos into 800 packages - make it like an Easter egg hunt

if he was undoing a fastener underneath, the car started to drop on him and Superman flew in and lifted the car back up

just got me thinking like a daft bugger, sometimes the brave just have to get brutal Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan 'war-crime' witnesses to Britain WWW.BBC.COM Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins oversaw a process where Afghan special forces were prevented from settling in the UK.

that was why I bothered, although on reflection the time would have been better spent checking myself for ticks - I already know the illegal immigrants are sucking my blood - no need to check for them

the immigrants are naughty for not waiting till they get home to pray And some white British soldiers are naughty for not waiting till they get home to rape and murder Defence secretary meets family of Kenyan woman allegedly killed by British soldiers | British army | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Relatives of Agnes Wanjiru say 13-year fight for justice has taken ‘heavy toll’ after meeting with John Healey British army in Kenya: Soldier sent home after arrest over rape allegation WWW.BBC.COM Military police are investigating the alleged incident near the British army's training camp in Kenya.

The only way Trump can be sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon is to invade and conquer the country Analysts largely agree that no amount of bombing could totally eradicate Iran's nuclear programme, and have pointed out that the American and Israeli campaign could have the opposite effect. Dr Andreas Krieg, an expert in Middle East security and senior lecturer at King's College London's School of Security Studies, told MailOnline: 'Going after Iran's nuclear programme could reinforce Tehran's belief that a nuclear deterrent is not only justified but essential for regime survival'. 'Rather than halting Iran's nuclear trajectory, the strikes may serve as a vindication of the logic that drives Iran's long-term nuclear ambition - deterrence through capability,' he said. Dr Andreas Boehm, international law expert at the University of St. Gallen, was even more forthright. 'After the experiences of Ukraine, Libya and now Iran on the one hand, and North Korea on the other, there can be no other conclusion than that only the possession of nuclear weapons offers protection against attack,' he said. 'For this or any subsequent Iranian regime, the path of negotiation is no longer an option. It will now work even more resolutely towards acquiring a nuclear bomb.' Some Western leaders appear to share this view. French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters today he felt there was an 'increased' risk that Iran would attempt to enrich uranium secretly in the wake of US-Israeli attacks.

This is why banks have customer services departments - to confuse their clients

I agree with those who say the tree will most likely survive. The question is in future years will there be more root trouble with the paths? It is probably just self seeded from years ago. It can be retained and inspected, pruned periodically, or something smaller planted further in your garden e.g acer palmatum - bearing in mind establishing a new tree will need regular watering or one of those tree watering bags

My argument is Israel has been unofficially 'allowed' to build a stockpile of nukes, so the same applies if Israel were ever to fire a 100 nukes at Lebanon, Iran or wherever. But of course Israel are the good guys, so their nukes don't matter, Israel are responsible and will keep their nukes as a deterrent only. Bit like N Korea (deterrent only!)