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Festus was the muffin guy, not me.

Do you know the muffin man?

Grind them to dust while the royals watch. And them push them into the crusher too.

Lives on Drury lane?

The largest diamond in the crown jewels is from South Africa and loads of them are from Tanzania and Australia as well as India. Might as well spread the love.

It'd be cracking deal. The Cullinan (actually 10+ stones now) was only bought for £18m (inflation adjusted) at the time of purchase, if SA got it back it'd be worth a fuck load more than that now.

Edit: Just read that it would be worth about $400m if discovered today.

Boarder patrols learning turn arround tattics to push boats back towards France... WTF.

This country continues to make itself look like a cunt.

In a cabinet of ghouls, incompetents and sociopaths Patel really does go the extra mile to stand out as a horrific piece of shit

It's horrible. I hate the current Gov so much. I mean Tory Govs are always shit but this bunch really are pushing it.

I didn’t think they can do this legally.

Its nothing but a vote gaining empty gesture.

Was talking to a sailor (as in Captain of a large oil tanker) a few weeks ago about the law of the sea, something that the UK is very much obliged to adhere to.

Pretty much the only way that border force can tow a vessel back to France legally is if the boat is sea worthy, not overloaded, there is a lifejacket for everybody on board, there is no medical concern for passengers, the boat has a radio, a qualified skipper and navigational aids.

I don't think that applies to many cross channel migrant boats.

I mean, if anything, if the UK did start towing boats back, I expect that the traffickers would just make sure that everybody was on the shittiest and most dangerous craft possible to force rescues rather than just make it safely across. Thats kind of what they do anyway.

She is exactly what the average English Tory voter wants sadly

I think that is basically the case and why they are saying it will be used in a limited number of cases as technically they can do providing the vessel is sea worthy but almost none of them will meet that criteria but it makes good headlines for being strong on immigration

New Irish CCS facility.

'Solves' CO2 emissions from 870 cars for $10-15M.

UK 20 million vehicles: 20,000,000/870 = $230,000 - 345,000M.

I'm estimating that is in excess of all the profits ever amassed by fossil fuel producers in the UK.
I'm going to continue to shout at clouds while it remains untaxed.

.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/09/priti-patels-plans-to-send-migrant-boats-back-to-france-dead-in-water

Ooof, bad choice of URL.

Personally I don't think it's an empty gesture but I know what you mean just pandering to the hateful masses who blame everything on immigration. To me the gesture means more hate more blame shifting and maybe vigilante groups turning boats arround.

I’m just surprised that the Daily Express didn’t put a smiley at the end of its front page headline today.

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Which bit? The celebration of the Canadian immigrant with Romanian and Chinese parents?

Surely the tactic would be, when the push-back starts, to scuttle the vessel?

"One ping only Vasilly."

Cawston Park: Deaths of three patients prompts hospitals warning https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58466839

Anyway, this makes appalling reading too. My wife is a behaviour analyst who works with adults with learning disabilities, autism etc in Southwark, and although she doesn’t have clients in hospitals like this, mostly care homes and supported living, she comes home every day with grim stories of poor treatment, uncaring, untrained minimum-wage staff and private companies charging thousands per week for appalling service, driven purely by profit at any cost.

She was at a service yesterday. Patient is hot and probably has a headache because he’s dehydrated. He’s non-verbal. He’s clearly thirsty but staff won’t make him a a drink because “they’re busy. Wife asks if he can make one himself, staff say he’s unable. So J quickly makes up a picture board showing him a cup, where they’re kept, where the squash is, etc etc. and pins it on the wall. She goes through it with him twice, just twice, and then watches him as he gets it right first time on his own. He’s been there two years and no-one has bothered to do with with him. The look of happiness on his face as he makes his own cup of orange squash is wonderful.

She sees this kind of shit every single day. All the services in London are private, and this particular one doesn’t even have its own staff - they’re entirely agency provided, so there’s no continuity. It’s a fucking disgrace.

870 cars seems so low, the move to E10 petrol last week was supposed to be the equivalent of taking 350,000 cars off the UK roads

3 of the 4 fp stories are probably worthy of one in Express Land