Vince Green

The population of Africa is about 1.6 Billion. Because of rapid population growth there are more people than the land / local economy can support in many places. This causes many young men to be disenfranchised. ie they don't have or don't inherit land so have no way of getting on with their lives. The only way they have to get out of this predicament is to migrate to somewhere where they believe they have a future. Political policies and other barriers are not going to dissuade them from coming. They believe "the streets are paved with gold" in Europe. Compared to where they have come from it probably is. Much the same story in many parts of the middle East, Asia and South America. Its a global problem. Then there is all the stuff about climate change, rising sea levels etc What is terrifying is the scale of the problem

20% of the population of Ireland were not born in Ireland. What they don't say is how many of the remaining 80% are the children of that 20%? Born in Ireland but not ethnically or culturally Irish. Which means that with an aging Irish population added into the equation the time is rapidly approaching when the Irish could find themselves in the minority.

You clearly don't spend much time driving in the dark in Cornwall. We get deer on the road at night this time of year. Plus the pot holes. The road surfaces are appalling. Plus the local inbred community drive down the middle of the lanes irrespective of how wide the lanes are and the fact that you coming the other way.

She is totally unaware that it is a problem. Like a lot of other drivers I would imagine. Everything is automatic, the lights come on automatically when it gets dark. The wipers come on automatically when it rains etc

Cars with automatic dipping headlights do that. My stepdaughter has a car thats terrible in that respect. They don't dip till the last minute. She was told to drive on full beam and let the car do the rest. I wince when you see the oncoming cars getting the full blast and they are powerful lights too

It's about two things First how much would the landlord make if he sold the property and invested the money in something else? That's return on investment (ROI) as a guideline Coventry Building Society is offering 5.2% at the moment. Thousands of landlords are just selling up and getting out of the rental business because the grass is greener elsewhere. Secondly, if the landlord has himself got a mortgage he is paying on the property how much has that gone up ?

Yes but in London they are the favourite mode of transport for many miscreants Bag snatchers, phone snatchers etc In South London they weave in and out of the cars stuck in heavy traffic and pop open the boots to grab what ever they can. The scooters are fast too, souped up they will do 40mph and can accelerate like a rocket. Nobody is ever going to catch them

Drug dealing is tolerated because if we legalised drugs it would deprive a lot of antisocial scumbags of a very good living. Which would mean (being scumbags) they would look for other ways of getting their hands on easy money. Those 'other ways' would be more visible to the general public and would look like a massive and uncontrollable crime wave. With all the implications for the police and politicians. So they look the other way W

In general terms it would not be possible. The battery in an electric car is effectively the floor pan. Difficult to find someway of concealing the battery Also, most classic cars are not actually worth that much and most are declining in value. Generally speaking, most classic cars appeal to a certain generation and the evidence is that generation (mine effectively) is getting older, less able to do the work on them.

It's very hard for any individual to stand up to an FEO and some FEOs are definitely making it up as they go along.

This appears to have been an aspect of policy from the Met for some time. I have heard similar things several times before. Also RFDs being continually bombarded with more demands for "security' which appears to be a subtle attempt to wear them down.

That will work, the only trouble is if they go anywhere near where the waves are breaking they won't be there when you come back. So off a harbour wall is probably a better starting point and learn as you go from there. Incidentally it's called skiving down here . Crabbing from the shore. Personally I would rather spin for mackerel No pot is too rough not to work. They don't have to be posh to be good

It's a much more complicated subject than the narrative would have us believe. Not all the slave owners were white (or men)

Yes Bunce Island was one such place. The origin of the word Bunce meaning profit. It must be remembered that the British Slavers were only in the Business of transporting the slaves. They didn't capture them. They bought them at bunce Island on the quayside. Sailed them across the Atlantic and sold them on the quayside again in places like South Carolina, Barbados, Jamaica. All done as quickly as possible. Then they loaded up with sugar, spices, rum etc Sometimes hard woods to make the journey back to Britain

I've been to Bunce Island in the mouth of the Sierra Leone River. Its the place where the slaves were shipped out A lot of slaves were brought in to be sold by their own extended family. Clearing out the surplus kids

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This forum is often very slow

It's nothing more than a cheap sound bite. The idea of just sending them all back the same day is hardly new. It would work too, I have no doubt about that. The problem is that France won't take them back. They have always steadfastly refused. They are clever because they very carefully do not document the migrants so we cannot prove they ever came from France That's why we are looking to ship them out to Rwanda.

Next base seems to be getting the vote. Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to reply

They were snatching people (mostly women) and selling them into slavery from coastal villages in Cornwall as recently as the 1850s. Not just Cornwall I have no doubt. But my ancestors were no better off than slaves. They were agricultural workers when it was effectively slavery. The African slaves in the Southern States of America and in the Caribbean had one big thing going for them. Somebody had paid a lot of money for them. They had a real value, that was incredibly important because a slave actually cost a lot of money. They weren't going mistreat them or let them starve. The evidence from the Plantations in America and Caribbean bears this out. Slaves live "comparitively' well Something that English, Scottish and Irish agriculture workers didn't have going for them. They could die along with their family and nobody cared

That sounds about right Thanks

I know this has been done before but can somebody recommend a good dash cam please

Let's just stop for a moment and in a moment of madness imagine that we gave them the money. Who would the money go to? Not a lot of slaves left these days

The one I wish I still had was a 68 Mustang. Bought for £70 around 1975 and part exed for a granada that got nicked a couple of months after I bought it.

In all the various agencies like DHSS and HMRC do nothing means toss the file in the bin, make a cup of coffee and put your feet up and do the cross word. It's become the way