Vince Green

When I phoned my surgery for an appointment I was told to wait 3 weeks or go to A&E. So I went to A&E. I have heard of other people being told the same

That was undoubtedly the case. Not very woke to mention it though Slaves were expensive, evidenced by the fact that the trade was so lucrative. So slave owners would be sensible to protect their investment. The rednecks had no choice. They had to work under those conditions or they would starve

Actually that's very true and should be kept in mind. The have massively benefitted from their ancestors being slaves. It's an unpopular belief I know but having seen West Africa as well as the plantation houses in the Southern States of America. I believe the slaves themselves lived longer and better lives as slaves than they would in a village in West Africa. It depends how you define slavery. There were thousands of white 'slaves' too. Irish and Scots "rednecks" who were economic slaves and worked alongside the African slaves for bed and board.

I've lived in West Africa and have been to Bunce Island where the Africans brought their surplus children to sell to the slavers. People depict slavery as being massively cruel. Certainly its not a nice concept. The truth is, slaves were very expensive and because they had a value they were treated better than English agricultural workers of the same era who led shocking lives. How about some reparations for my agricultural ancestors and the way they were treated ?

it's always about somebody wanting money

That's right, his Irish connection is quite distant but he plays on it to get votes. You don't hear trump boasting about his German ancestry though.

There is a lot of anger down here in Cornwall about "unregulated" AirBnBs operating without any safety certificates etc. We are also starting to see the beds in sheds phenomenon spreading down here as there is such a shortage of rental properties because so many landlords have bailed out.

A lot of landlords don't realise you are supposed to have fire doors fitted to the bedrooms. I didn't until we bought our flat in Cornwall and I asked the vendor why he had changed all the internal doors. He said he had to for fire regs when he rented it out. The letting agent insisted on it . I checked it out and yes he was right

Yes it goes on a lot in care homes and in hospital too.

Tax laws changed a couple of years back causing hundreds of landlords to sell up. There is a real shortage of rental property in Cornwall because so many landlords have given up.

I get a free bus and train pass because I live in London. I use it all the time. You can't use cash on the buses in London. That happened over ten years ago

My biggest problem will be not knowing anybody

For the virgins, heaven didn't turn out to be quite as great as they expected did it ?

Yes but I don't recognise them from that profile. These are ambitious young men with enough motivation and get up and go to make the journeys that they did. They want to be out there earning money not languishing on a barge no matter how comfortable that may be. The fact that their lack of work permits and skills means they often depend on criminality or the black economy to earn that money is an unfortunate consequence Keeping them on a boat means they are kept away from opportunity to earn money.

I disagree in part. It's going to stop them living the high life in hotels and working illegally. Which a lot of them do. If it feels more like detention that can only make them realise that what they did was illegal and has consequences.

OK so let's order 80 barges. No problem Build them in British shipyards using British materials. Put some money back into the British economy. It's a win / win situation Let's see who cracks first

Trump has always been massively corrupt. His wealth came from dirty money his old man laundered for the mob into NY real estate. No worse than the Kennedys though

People on here seem to think that it's the Government that's driving this but its not. It's the banking system.

So despite being a member of the ECHR, France's refusal to offer these migrants any sort of help or the chance to claim asylum proves that the ECHR is a load of tosh. My point all along is that we should treat the migrants The same way as the other ECHR members do. They get away with it, but we don't.

A lot of cash taken by car washes gets smugged abroad back to the workers home countries. One of the ways they do this is to load the cash onto pre paid Post Office money cards and then send the card home and email the pin number later. Or they use Western Union or MoneyGram. All this money is 'lost' money as far as this country is concerned It's another small argument against cash

Electric tills and bar code readers mean during a power cut cash won't work either. Besides, insurance public liability, heath and safety, fire regs etc probably means that shops and businesses wouldn't be able to allow the public into the building when the power is off

It's coming very quickly now. Most of the self service tills in our local supermarket are card only and we had a meal at Prezzo in Clarke's Village in Somerset yesterday and that was card only . The car park was card only too I very rarely carry cash these days It started out witn cheques not cash. At one time the banks would let you pay in as many cheques as you liked. Then they started charging 5p a cheque, then 20p, then 50p. There is no bank in our town to pay cash into now. We went from Lloyd's to HBSA and then to Santander as the branches gradually closed but Santander went as well The prospect of lugging large amounts of cash around to the next town to pay it in is not realistic. Especially as you probably have to park miles away

Considering the recent history of Europe you have to wonder who they think they are trying to kid

I don't remember people getting tortured or killed in this country before we joined the ECHR. UK Law covers all these issues perfectly adequately already without the need for external intervention What we have at the moment is just a feeding frenzy for parasitic lawyers

What rights are you talking about? or is this some QAnon type of conspiracy?