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Occasional moaning about cloud engineering but mostly cats.
Don't worry, more gimmicky policies based on a simple reading of issue polling will sort this out
NEW from Ipsos
Satisfaction with the PM remains unchanged since September, continuing to be the worst ever recorded by Ipsos for a Prime Minister, going back to 1977…
Extremely jealous of Americans who have a country big enough and empty enough to be able to buy a plot of land in a forest for $7500.
I had no business buying a derelict cabin — but rebuilding it changed my life - on.ft.com/49stCRb
Somehow found this mouthwatering. Lovely short article
Buying the tiny broken-down hut in Washington State was done on a whim. Repairs and renovations hammered home a new sense of purpose
I get that people arriving on small boats is a problem, it's a bigger problem for the people doing it. They have a significant chance of dying in the attempt.
But at a certain point besides committing horrific crimes there's not much more you can do to stop people attempting the crossing.
The conversations we have about the choices facing our country are consistently at the level of pre-schoolers.
I want a Porsche 911, I could probably borrow the money to buy one but I know that if I do that I face serious financial and social consequences. So I don't do it.
At some point the political and media class is going to have to level with people. Human beings are mobile, smart and determined.
If they decide that their future is better off in the UK they will find a way to get here either as irregular migrants or, if they have a claim, seeking asylum.
Every way you slice this data the UK is not recieving an outsized asylum claiment or resettlement number. We do not have a generous asylum system or welfare state comparatively to other european states.
The UK recieves the 5th highest asylum claims in Western Europe, Germany had 250 thousand asylum claims in 2024 compared to the UK's 108.
Adjusted for population that number falls to the 17th.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
This briefing sets out key facts and figures, as well as information gaps, relating to migration to the UK, specifically refugees and asylum seekers. It looks at overall numbers, characteristics of as...
Even a cursory glance at the numbers of Asylum claims we recieve in the UK shows the idea that our 'generous' system (hahahahahaha very funny joke) is attracting claiments is bullshit.
Home secretary says Britain’s ‘generosity’ is ‘drawing illegal migrants’
90% of number 10 chiefs of staff quit suspending MPs just before they crush the backbench rebellion.
Actual government by focus group.
