So, apparently, the first removal to Rwanda has happened. Not exactly in the way some folks would like to see it implemented, with an illegal crying and pleading while being dragged up the staircase by two big, burly Border Force officers.
According to the report, the illegal happily jumped on a plane with ยฃ3K in his back pocket. The thing is, I'm not sure that's a deterrent. Remember, supposedly, boat people have nothing, which is why they want to get to the UK. So we're giving them a roof over their heads and three square meals a day plus ยฃ3K, and you wonder why the Government is cutting back on PIP.
order-order.com/2024/05/01/kemโฆ
Kemi Badenoch Celebrates First Rwanda Removal โ Guido Fawkes
The Sun revealed that on monday the first Rwanda removal was carried out with a failed asylum seeker agreeing to fly to Kigali voluntarily. Under a schemeMax Young (Guido Fawkes Organisation)
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#politcs
Humza Yousaf resigns.
Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf quits, triggering a search for a successor.www.bbc.co.uk
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This will give a good indication of voting intentions for #GE2025.
We need to see how well #Labour does.
#Politics
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Birmingham City Council signed off on a two-year ยฃ300M cut last night; they're skint. Broke, the cashbox is empty!
Like it or not, it's due to poor management, two binmen strikes, hosting the Commonwealth games, investing in a shite IT system that cost more than its worth. Being found guilty of underpaying women for years, and yet a union guy was threatening further strike action while others seemed to think there was a magic wand or a printing press in the council basement that was able to continue haemorrhaging money.
What was the total bollocks stock answer that's always given: "Central Government caused this." ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
#cuts #BirminghamCityCouncil
It's a pretty clever ploy by the Tories to give everyone a tax cut, hopefully, to buy votes for the General Election, and if that doesn't work, then Labour will look the villain of the part if they win and have to put taxes up to pay for their ideas.
If only we could get one of these on the Moon or Mars, we'd really be able to get the ball rolling. #Colonalisation
I do think some of them really care about improving matters, but they are all just human. Money is a powerful motivator.
๐๐๐ป'๐ ๐ถ๐ "๐ง๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐'๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐!"?
A third Labour politician was involved in the Antisemitic furore.
#politics #labour #Antisemetism
news.sky.com/story/third-labouโฆ
Labour antisemitism row deepens as third politician 'spoken to' over meeting
Sky News understands Hyndburn councillor Munsif Dad was also at the gathering of activists where Azhar Ali and Graham Jones allegedly made antisemitic remarks.Jennifer Scott (Sky News)
expressandstar.com/news/local-โฆ
Walsall woman finds heart-shaped spud in her shopping on Valentine's weekend
A Walsall woman had a love-ly surprise when she found a heart-shaped potato in a bag of Tesco spuds on Valentine's weekend.www.expressandstar.com
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Rochdale by-election: Why Labour can't replace Azhar Ali - and what happens if he wins
Despite withdrawing support for Azhar Ali, he will still appear as the Labour candidate when voters look at the ballot paper on polling day. Sky News explains why that is, and the challenges still facing party leader Sir Keir Starmer.Faye Brown (Sky News)
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:lโฆ #foss #opensource #linuxsupport
My wife bought a new horse and needs a replacement. Tiger Computing can help. | Tiger Computing posted on the topic | LinkedIn
I mentioned last week that my wife seems to have acquired a new horse. He's to replace, eventually, an existing horse who is getting on. My wife doesโฆTiger Computing (www.linkedin.com)
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Am I the only one resisting enabling #Ubuntu Pro every time a software update informs me that updates are ready to be installed but that I need to enable Pro to get them?
There is nothing like a little bit of pressure selling, is there? ๐ณ
Higher taxes is the price you pay for a Labour government. However, a large number of Labour voters don't pay tax, so why should they care?
As of 2020-2021 31 Million paid tax
17.3 million were under 25 years old
12.0 million were aged 25 to 39 years.
15.6 million were aged 40 to 59 years.
14.5 million were aged 60 years and over
Total adult population 59.4 Millon. #politics
I'm mystified why you are obsessed with Liz Truss. She wasn't in office long enough to do anything, and Kwasi Kwarteng introduced the catastrophic budget that brought her down. True, she endorsed it, so I suppose one could argue that as PM, she was ultimately responsible; however, there have been many disastrous budgets over the years, and prime ministers have managed to survive.
I don't think she would have survived anyway without some extraordinary support. I suspect she was given the job because the party old guard didn't want Rishi, so it was better to have an incompetent. Obviously, they tried to make her look more viable by telling everyone she was Thatcherite, but I get the feeling her Thatcherism extends to reading one of Maggie's books.
There's no way Boris is coming back; he's done far too much image damage for the Conservative Party. My money is on David Cameron, and yet I don't want him either after his spineless performance after the referendum. Sadly, there's little choice in terms of credible leaders for the Conservatives.
I'm still convinced he will take over the reins. His appointment was stunningly bizarre. A return to the flat above number 10 is the only credible explanation for him, IMO.
I didn't see this as you replied to the wrong one :)
As I have said, they are a shambles and not fit to run the country. I know you feel some loyalty to the party, but they are a lost cause. Maybe Labour can actually be better. We may see...
I don't mind paying more tax if we get a functioning country. Various rich people have offered to pay more.
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Why would anyone who openly admits they don't have a big following consider starting a Patreon? I mean, seriously, how do people's minds work? They can't build up an audience when it's free (as in money), so why would anyone pay?
Everyone these days wants to sit on their arse on social media getting paid. #LeSigh
I've just worked out why the stupid drop-off locker didn't like my mobile. The crappy system wanted me to drop the 0 off the beginning of my mobile number, didn't it?
#resilt
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Alison Hammond confirmed as new host of For The Love of Dogs
Following the sad passing of TV presenter and animal lover Paul O'Grady,...Alex Ross (Signal 1)
The problem with Docker is their man page is wank!
$ docker service
gives you a list of commands; "Ooh! yes, ps [list all services] is what I want."
$ docker service ps
Gives you this shit.
"docker service ps" requires at least 1 argument.
See 'docker service ps --help'.
Usage: docker service ps [OPTIONS] SERVICE [SERVICE...]
I just want to know WTF the busted swarm is doing FFS!
David Bowie (Live) [2017 Remastered]
If only @currys did these, they'd be on my Your Plan quicker than you could blink.
๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฆ๐-๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
news.sky.com/story/home-secretโฆ
#Rwanda #irregularmigrants
Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives in Rwanda to sign new asylum treaty
It comes after Mr Cleverly laid out his five-point plan to cut immigration, which included banning care workers from bringing their families over to the UK and raising the minimum salary required for a skilled worker visa.Sky News
I'm wondering if this opposition to the UK/Rwanda deal is a race thing because nobody seems to be up in arms about Italy's deal with Albania or the Turkey/Greece deal and all the other EU deals. Obviously, France believes the UK should take its migrants while paying for the pleasure. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67โฆ
Europe migrant crisis: Italy to build migrant centres in Albania
The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.By Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
Like many things there are no simple solutions, but it helps to work with the neighbours rather
LOL
And yet the news media is tearing its clothes and gnashing its teeth at how right-wing Europe is becoming, even wheeling out those knackered old accusations of "Facist" and "Nazi" labels in a desperate attempt to stop people talking about the subject or even trying to do something about it.
We will see flights very soon once we install some British lawyers out there. I'm not sure how that makes any difference but I suppose governments always seem to have to jump through hoops to get anything done these days.
I see X wants me to start arguing again? It pisses me off that I'm goaded, and people are shocked and offended when I respond.
My response to this would be:
"But EVERYONE is middle class; in fact, I would argue there's only a small proportion of so-called rich and a huge amount of working families, and if there is still a working class, then Labour has failed! One hundred years and Socialism still hasn't dragged its sorry arse out of the road to Wigan Pier."
Better vote Lib Dem if you want to rejoin the EU, although rejoining is a long way down the road, according to their manifesto. I enjoyed reading the section on Asylum & Immigration. I needed a good laugh.
Next time, someone says that the House of Lords should be abolished because it is filled with rich people with nothing better to do; tell them they're idiots and have no idea what they're talking about. They are a valuable safety net for the British people, successfully blocking the Government (Conservative) 496 times since 2010
parliament.uk/about/faqs/houseโฆ
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-668โฆ
Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules
Labour leads a Lords rebellion on removing restrictions on water pollution to build new homes.BBC News
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/poliโฆ
Keir Starmer vows to strike migrants return deal with EU
Tories accuse Labour of โsurrendingโ control of immigration to Brussels โ as Starmer promises to put people-smuggling โon a parโ with terrorismAdam Forrest (The Independent)
Glad to see not a lot has changed with #ArchLinux in terms of needing a certain level of ability. Spun up my VM this morning with 437 updates available but of course pacman refused because mutter43 and mutter are in conflict. The fix for me was:
sudo pacman --remove --nosave --cascade mutter
sudo pacman -Syyu
Oh, and I had to:
sudo mv /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver beacuse pacman moaned about that too!
itv.com/news/2023-07-01/twitteโฆ
news.sky.com/story/one-millionโฆ
Vape starter kits for one million smokers in 'swap to stop' scheme
Pregnant women will be offered up to ยฃ400 to stop smoking as part of a push the government has said is "the first of its kind in the world".Sky (Sky News)
I do a weekly Newsletter for a customer who seems to be obsessed with "Centre-aligned"
The email has a main offer that, IMO always looks a mess and four smaller offers that look fine. Today she sent the brief over with the main offer, as usual, centre-aligned with a section containing bullet points. ๐คข
I tidied it up and put the bullet points in a single cell, left-aligned and sent the now tidy results off for approval.
"๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ-๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ด"
๐ญ ๐ญ ๐ญ
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Total shock! Resigns as the leader of her country on 15 February 2023
Forty-nine days later, the rozzers come to arrest her old man.
Ten minutes before Constable Cameron turns up at the former First Ministers' home, Nikki manages to leave the house with a couple of bags.
#snp
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Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •dick_turpin
in reply to Steve • •Given that supposedly the reason lots of people voted "Leave" was because of all "The foreigners", I wonder if those same people will vote Tory, given it looks like they've kept their promise?
I saw a news report last night (Although I'd already heard what was going on) that Border Force is rounding up illegals as they report to signing-on centres like they're supposed to and shipping them to holding centres ready for flights out.
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •The leave vote was based on other lies. The Rwanda thing is a ridiculously expensive diversion that won't solve anything. People know how crap the Tories are. Labour have failed to capitalise on this, but may win anyway.
Can you honestly say you are proud of this lot? We deserve better, but they sold out.
dick_turpin
in reply to Steve • •I'm not sure anyone is proud of their government throughout the world.
I'm almost at the point of hoping Labour does win so that those who have never known a Labour government can get a taste of how badly they will take the country down. And as for clueless people who think there's going to be an election before January, there's your average deluded voter right there.
I read with interest that Kier Starmer has stated he fully intends to investigate privatisation opportunities within the NHS, particularly cataract operations. I thought they were the NHS saviours, and it was only the wicked Tories who wanted to sell off the NHS?
If only there were a Utopia that catered for each and every person's needs and quirks.
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •So you're not proud of them :)
Politics tends to be a 'least worst' game, but the Tory lurch to the right has been extreme. They got rid of the smart/moderate ones. Labour are not the lefties of old. Starmer is treading a tightrope and compromising on various things. I would like to see him be more radical.
Nobody expects 'utopia', but they do hope for competence and compassion.
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