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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 12:15 20 Jan 2025
Well if you dont process them them they get to stay.
Yes will take resources, but thats money well spent compared to the alternative.
Lets see how Trump gets on rounding the illegals up in the States.
More expensive than promptly processing them.
And will it even work ? |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 08:25 20 Jan 2025
If you think the people in the north of Ireland from the loyalist tradition now think they are Irish then tbere is no hope.
I explained how partition happened.
I never said the people had no right to vote.
I will say the date was gerrymandered by London.
An all Ireland vote creates an all Ireland republic.
Of course the rest of the Ireland wanted out of the UK cos thats the way they voted.
BritNat establishment is trying to derail things in Scotland with Comrade Nicola, we still wait on that. SNP still voted in to run things.
Brexit accelerated a united Ireland and Sinn Fein are the biggest party in tbe north already with First Minister Michelle O’Neill.
And then Wales unless the Labour/Labour situation with Cardiff/London starts to delivery prosperity.
If you still cant see the direction of travel then i cant help you. Its clear. Give it 5 years max for a border poll in Ireland. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 07:50 20 Jan 2025
I was trying to say the money could have gone towards sorting it rather than spaffed in Rwanda. My bad - i was not meaning to suggest that money would fix the whole thing.
I have never had any issues with free speech on this website. |
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Reply | Surprise tip to replace Rachel Reeves
at 07:44 20 Jan 2025
We are all poorer because of Brexit.
Its tbe elephant in the room.
Realign or rejoin and the growth will return.
Fuel duty is a side issue at uk level.
Its cost is keenly felt without growth.
You cant get growth in a Brexit world.
Its a dumb ass idea … 🇬🇧 |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 15:19 19 Jan 2025
It suits certain right wing politicians, like Trump in the States, to keep this problem going because it guarantees then votes.
They want to cry about it but they dont care enough to fix it.
Fast processing is essential, then they can feck off home or work.
Currently these men are not allowed to work and the processing takes months.
This could have been paid for with the £300 million handed to Rwanda for nothing.
But johnson thought it was funny …so thats ok then … |
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Reply | Chagos Islands
at 13:49 19 Jan 2025
Boris Johnson needs investigating if anyone. |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 10:13 19 Jan 2025
He knows very little and understands less.
Let my try again ….
Irish Catholic people lived in Ireland
England took control by force of arms, just like in Wales
Called British by some, but its Englands London rulers, of course
Good land was stolen, and different people arrived from Scotland and England as a direct result
Some of this was in Ulster, and these people were protestant and loyalist
Please note - different cultures arrived, but nobody in Ireland wanted this.
Many many years later there is a national vote for a free Ireland or an Ireland that remained part of London rule. This was deliberately done at a sub national level as everyone knew that the protestant, loyalist people in the north would vote to stay with London rather than be a minority in a Catholic Ireland.
Everybody else voted for a free and independent Ireland.
Hence the made up statelet of Northern Ireland which is just 100 years old.
So … the loyalist people in the north would be offended for you to suggest they might be the same as the Irish. They came from Scotland and England, and remain very loyal to that tradition. More loyal than any of the mainland people.
In recent years that deliberately built in numerical advantage has disappeared, making an United Ireland inevitable at some future point.
In rough and ready terms thats that … Ian Paisley was Protestant, loyalism manifest. |
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Reply | OHL's Birthday
at 20:35 18 Jan 2025
Happy Birthday my old mate.
Joio brawd ….. |
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Reply | Jay Fulton
at 17:44 18 Jan 2025
Sweet Jesus … we do have some genius people in our club … |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 17:37 18 Jan 2025
By the 1720s, British Protestants were the majority in Ulster.
The plantations changed the demography of Ireland by creating large communities with British and Protestant identities. The ruling classes of these communities replaced the older Catholic ruling class, which had shared with the general population a common Irish identity and set of political attitudes.
These are the original loyalist people in the north of Ireland. 🇬🇧 |
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Reply | Denis Law
at 22:09 17 Jan 2025
Well done OHL.
You will enjoy this.
What a great bloke Denis was - respect. |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 21:54 17 Jan 2025
True but a bit potentially misleading.
The fall out between the irish Free Staters and the remaing IRA was based on Michael Collins agreeing to the partition of Ireland.
The IRA wanted a free whole Ireland, staying true to the cause of an Ireland not just Gaelic, not just free …but both Gaelic and free.
But the British threatened a terrible war if partition was not agreed.
That would threaten any of Ireland being free.
Everyone actually wanted a united Ireland, but the Free Staters reluctantly decided to take the British offer.
Michael Collins paid with his life.
War was avoided.
But all parties wanted a united Ireland, its just how we get there. Michael Collins said partition gave Ireland ‘the freedom to achieve freedom’ (in tbe north).
Only the Brits (and specifically the Brits planted in the north) actually wanted the loyalist Northern Ireland statelet. |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 17:37 17 Jan 2025
Calm down mun.
I said the post was interesting and the FAW should take a look at his proposals.
I stand by that.
I did not say i agreed with every aspect of his proposal, not least because i have not tried to think through every detail.
Of course promotion and relegation is part and parcel of the game, but when you are making year on year investments to establish your new look national league then you might want to protect your investments. As things stand about 1/6 of the annual investment gets relegated every year, so to build you might want to limit relegations for a few years to keep your investments in play. And then resume later maybe. Cricket and rugby do ok without relegations in some leagues.
Whats your team then ? |
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Reply | Josh Thomas loan to RoI
at 17:19 17 Jan 2025
Has any loan to the RoI league actually done Swansea City first team any good ever ? |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 13:18 17 Jan 2025
You make some very interesting suggestions there.
I think 1000 people per game is achievable in the coming years with the relaunch for 26/27.
The overall playing standard is improving for sure.
The facilities are also much improved.
The FAW should take a listen to what you are saying, good post. |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 08:31 17 Jan 2025
We should all be celebrating the last 20 years of peace.
Going back is not a good idea.
Nobody deserved to lose their life.
Its not all good vs bad though.
Two sides to every story.
Collusion betwern loyalist terrorists and British Crown Forces did immense damage to community relations, sadly the army moved away from trying to keep the peace.
Here is a famous ecample, a lawyer murdered. Not a gunman, a lawyer.
Patrick Finucane (38), a Catholic civilian, was shot dead by members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Finucane was a Belfast solicitor who had represented a number of Republicans. He was killed at his home, Fortwilliam Drive, off Antrim Road, Belfast, in front of the members of his family. The shooting followed comments made (on 17 January 1989) by Douglas Hogg, then a British Home Office Minister, about a "number of solicitors in Northern Ireland who are unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA". [There were a number of accusations that there had been collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces in the killing of Finucane. There were futher claims of collusion on 29 August 1989. On 17 April 1999 John Stevens, then deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, returned to Northern Ireland to launch a third Inquiry specifically into the killing of Finucane. He also began to investigate allegations raised by campaign group British-Irish Rights Watch and the United Nations. Stevens' third report was presented to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 17 April 2003. The report concluded that there had been collusion in the killing of Finucane between members of the security forces, especially the Force Research Unit (FRU), and Loyalists.
Best to try and look forward. |
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