UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

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Why I only highlighted Finland, France and Spain.

Yeah it’s called controlling your borders, something else we voted for. Odd that the EU seems to be doing more of this than we are despite what people say

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Irrespective of what you think,we are a foreign country, but i can travel from Ireland to england without checks on entry yet everytime i return to Ireland i have to produce my passport on re-entering my own country.
And that lot in england voted out so they could control their borders when all they had to do was check passport on entry,which they are/were not doing effectively unlike everyone else.

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Yes, I know Ireland is a foreign country.
I do find your experiences very odd though.
I have entered the UK from foreign countries hundreds of times, and have never, not even once, not had to produce my passport at border control.

Yes, but the Labrador has super glued its paws to the tarmac though.
That’ll show em.

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Truss :see_no_evil: :rofl:

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Explains why she stepped down.

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I think this was rumoured at the time. From what I have heard it is related to a fund that was meant to be ring-fenced for an independence referendum was used for general party election funding (it was “resting” in my account etc).

Looks like a schoolboy error to me. If they’d been funded by Russian oligarchs no-one would have batted an eyelid.

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hard to see how a mere accounting error would lead to an arrest, unless there were massive legal restrictions on those funds as well as party covenants.

I suspect that it is more than a mere accounting error. However, the police do appear to be making something of a theatre of it - forensic tents outside the house and so on.

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Talking of accounting…

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Weren’t they digging in the garden??

WTAF?!?!?!

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The French knew what to do with royalty.

What the actual arguments around the new immigration laws? Of course generally I am for tightening immigration laws from the angle of closing loopholes but I watch the youtube between Sunak and Starmer and all I can hear are Sunak accusing Starmer of being pro open doors and all are welcomed while Starmer accuse Sunak of all talk and no results. So what are the details of these laws that pissed each other off?

Maybe they have reopened the Bible John case? Looks like political theatre to me.

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In it’s most simplest form the argument is why aren’t the government processing asylum applications. They’re in full deflection mode blocking off routes, leaving dinghies as the only real option, and basically making these people the enemy.

If they actually processed applications they can weed out the false, dangerous or whatever other unworthy claim and deport them perfectly legally but they prefer to tar them all with the same brush.

It’s basically government failure.

Just had to tweak that for accuracy.

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It’s definitely intentional. Break the system, terrify the public, and then claim you are the only ones able to ‘fix it’.

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