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Reply | Rwanda
at 18:45 6 Sep 2024
Agree with every word.
It was only ever intended to be a headline grabber and could not have worked.
If the Germans make it work good on them. It's not hard to improve on anything the last government did. |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 18:41 6 Sep 2024
Or change the rules about the numbers needed to sit on a committee or make the commitees bigger but responsible for more things.
A very feeble excuse. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:02 6 Sep 2024
Yes it should, but the home office including the border force saw huge cuts over the course of the last government. There's nobody to find them and do anything with them.
Stop the boats and Rwanda were nothing more than headlines, a case of LOOK AT THIS but please don't look at this. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 07:06 6 Sep 2024
Or enables them to stay more to the point.
They come because they can work in these places and stay because they don't get caught.
The new government have announced a crack down on these places. Let's see what happens.
And do you know any car wash that takes cards? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 21:25 5 Sep 2024
You may joke but I was in Spain recently and didn't see a single deliveroo/just eat/Uber eats rider, there wasn't a car wash on every corner and I didn't see any Turkish (Iraqi Kurdish) barbers.
Makes you wonder why they are so many here? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 16:52 5 Sep 2024
It's the reason most want to come here. It's easier to work illegally in the UK than most other countries. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 15:48 5 Sep 2024
We have two other options. We stop them getting here or leave them on the streets. We can't deport them until their claim is heard.
I'm not a "refugees welcome" bloke but we need to do something with them. Perhaps letting them work is an option?
And illegals get nothing. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 15:06 5 Sep 2024
People who don't have a legal right to be here can't claim benefits. At all. Asylum seekers do get some financial help but don't get welfare benefits. It is nowhere near £29,900 a year.
You can speak out in public. You just can't be racist. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 13:53 5 Sep 2024
Sounds like we need to do something about the trafficking gangs to me? |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:27 5 Sep 2024
What if when they were apprehended in the channel they said they were the Afghani Sea Angling Club from Folkestone? So claimed they had left from the UK so had to be brought back here.
I'm not being facetious but once they're on the water and away from France there isn't a great deal we can do.
That kind of surveilance would have to be done within a mile of France. It could be done but it would be up to France to do it because I really don't think they'd let us . |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:12 5 Sep 2024
I've no real issue with the use of a third country processing centre? How about France?
We should have no dangerous immigrants (or anyone else) freely patrolling our streets, but first we have to know if they're dangerous or not. Simple checks were not made in this case, I'd guess down to there not being enough people to do them. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 11:07 5 Sep 2024
But where do force them back too? They've left those countries they are no longer their responsibility, unless we track each vessel we don't know if they've come from France, Belgium, The Netherlands or anywhere else.
Besides those coming on illegal small boats are the very tip of the immigration iceberg. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 10:35 5 Sep 2024
But the point is he was not assessed. If he was assessed all sorts of red flags would have been raised and he could have been dealt with appropriately.
He didn't get in to the country without the authorities knowing, he was discovered and finger printed but nothing further happened.
He wasn't properly assessed almost certainly due to austerity and associated cuts.
It should be realtively straight forward to deal with illegal immigrants. Try to stop them coming (nothing has been done, yet), stop them working illegally (nothing has been done, yet), process them (timeline for processing has got far worse) then get rid of them or allow them to work legally.
The home office should have been given funds to do this not have resources stripped from towards a hair brained deportation scheme.
Threatening to send them to Africa was never going to work for loads of reasons but it got some headlines. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 09:49 5 Sep 2024
They're coming here because they can hide in the grey Labour market or they have people who currently work in the grey labour market who will look after them. |
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Reply | More stabbings
at 07:12 5 Sep 2024
It's shocking.
He should have been correctly processed and deported.
Unfortunately over the previous 4 years the number of those those waiting for their claims to be processed increased by a factor of 5. The system could have done with a massive cash injection and increased levels of staff.
A month after this poor lads murder the Rwanda scheme was launched. Costing 100's of millions of pounds and employing 1000 staff.
Stop the boats! Does that include ferries to Poole? |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 20:37 4 Sep 2024
That's right. The party choses the candidates in order of preference, I don't know if that'll be made public. You're voting for the party and not the person.
It's definitely a problem, there's a good number of assembly members who I wouldn't vote for in a month of Sundays, but probably would vote for their party. It's not an ideal system at all.
Ultimately it'll mean smaller parties get some seats, and reform will do well.
It'll be more of the same though, a Labour/PC/Green coalition or something like that. |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 10:18 4 Sep 2024
They'd in effect be their own party. The ballot paper would show something like:-
Labour
Reform
Plaid
Conservative
Liberal
Whiterockin - independent
As I understand nobody is going to stop anyone from standing - but the political parties decide who gets elected depending on the number of votes that party gets. |
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Reply | Labour voters
at 08:21 4 Sep 2024
That's assuming they live in a comparable value property though.
I'd agree eliminating it is probably a step too far and the system isn't ideal, but I bet everyone knows co-habiting couples who claim the discount fradulently.
I even know housing associations who encourage couples who "live together" but have two fully funded flats to alternate between the two properties 3 / 4 nights a week alternatley to continue receiving the discount and the housing association get two lots of housing benefit.
The housing association also help them throw money away (and bought a safe) to keep their visible savings under £16k.
The entire system needs to be overhauled. |
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Reply | Labour voters
at 07:56 4 Sep 2024
I'm not a Labour voter either but have no problem with their performance so far. In fact I'd probably vote for them should there be an election again under Starmer's leadership.
The WFA means testing is the correct thing to do, in theory, there is debate about the level of those means though. All benefits should be means tested.
I'd bet single persons council tax benefit is the most fraudelently clainmed benefit in the system. Perhaps cutting it completley is a step too far, but it needs to be looked at. |
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Reply | The new system for electing Senedd members
at 13:27 3 Sep 2024
Anyone can stand in a constituency and will be elected if they get enough votes. Whether they represent a party or not.
Basically any party will nominate a number of candidates in each constituency and rank them in order of who will get elected. I'm not sure if that bit is made public? Similar to the regional MS's now.
The only current MS who is independent is Rhys Ab Owen who was ditched by Plaid for being a sex pest. He still gets paid though. |
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