Raja Clavata

I’m travelling within Europe at least once a week at present, sometimes twice. Barcelona has been the worst but none of them have been good. The point is it’s my job not for leisure, so it’s a weekly thing.

Not an analogy, it’s a factual experience. The problem for me is I couldn’t go through the EU channel like I could before Brexit.

I'd like to go back to the days when I spent 105 minutes on a plane getting to Barcelona and got through passport control in just a few minutes. Unlike a couple weeks ago when I spent 105 minutes on the plane and 135 minutes getting through passport control. The queue for EU residents etc. did not exceed 30 people in that time, there were about 500 people in front of me for the rest of world queue. Just one example.

Regardless of your views on Brexit, there's a certain irony to the fact that the EU is still there and the government who pretended to get Brexit done, for all intent and purposes, aren't. BTW I hear that the polls show a >10% majority of the public now believe that Brexit was in fact a bad idea, that said, even if true that's clearly distorted by the fact that Joe Public doesn't understand why we are in the pickle we are in - by that I mean it's certainly not all down to Brexit.

Strange responses both. I was merely stating a fact, not a preference, and it was in response to "can we at least have someone from this country who understands".

If the constitution prohibited those born outside of the UK from being PM then we wouldn't be in this current mess

Let's see, I suspect he's gambling on his resignation to appease his party for now, unless you can see into the future I think it remains to be seen if that will be the case... I don't trust him, never have, quite concerned what additional chaos he could cause before he actually goes.

No, he needs to go, be gone ASAP.

He needs to go today, or at least in the next few days...

Agree, although I’m still not sure why Barclay couldn’t be in the mix.

I doubt very much that the new PM will be worse than Boris from any kind of objective viewpoint. Further, in my view, it’s inconceivable that the new Government will be worse than the current one. To qualify this I’m assuming there will not be a snap election as a result of Boris’ departure.

Really looking forward to his resignation speech, been waiting a long time for this.

Two lost seats, both in constituencies that had a leave majority in 2016 (ironically on the 6th anniversary of the historic vote). The public have sussed Boris out for what he is, the bubble has burst, another nail in his coffin. With Boris gone I am confident the Tories can still win the next general election, preferably with less of a majority than they currently enjoy, hopefully with a Leader and reformed party who learn the lessons of the Boris era and treat us plebs with just a little less disdain than the current regime. Here's hoping...

Good posts Grant! Economic migrants sure but can you even begin to imagine the hell of being a displaced person, think of the scenarios that might make it just a tad difficult to collect your ID, keep your ID when you've either lost everything (there's a clue there) or left you home hurriedly. There's at least two sides to the extremist point / risk, blindly concurring with Priti Patel could be seen as pretty extremist from certain perspectives... Wow, just wow. You can't seriously mean anything they do you completely oppose, that's a bit, err - extreme.

There is a long established framework for this within UNHCR, very comprehensive and a high degree of "correct" outcomes on refugee status determination.

Oh dear, the normally somewhat confused moral absolutists really have got their knickers in a twist today 🙂

This, for me, is the crux of the matter. I'm not standing up for Germany or France, far from it, but this is / was a NATO rather than EU thing. Interesting point, behind all that is currently happening, there is another global arms race ongoing around Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. This hasn't fully played out yet but the West appear to believe the "others" are developing unethical AI weapon systems and believe that they can be countered through the use of ethical AI approaches. But that's probably one for another day. Topical though given the current news around Google DeepMind's "sentient!?" AI...

What's wrong with Steve Baker as an option?

Goes without saying. Rather than objecting, why not try actually reading my post, I was clearly commenting on storage of loaded firearm for home defence purposes.

Not advocating it but not sure how home defence is supposed to work if the ammo is stored in a different place to the firearm? Seems to be part of the problem to me (the whole home defence gig I mean).

Cede territory to Russia on the basis of what, as previously shown to be meaningless, guarantees?

Nailed it.

Interesting to see the long debate over the semantics of proxy war. Even more interesting to constantly read that if you don't align with a certain posters view on the same then you're a Putin apologist. Very bad form indeed.

Being reported that not all the Azov regiment have / will leave the plant, suggestion that commanders holed up there may still be prepared to find to the end.

Not to mention the Litvinenko and Skripal attacks on UK soil, were they not effectively acts of war themselves, we did pretty much nothing in response.