Vince Green

Thats right but the scare factor is already being felt. Already the market for older shotguns, particularly SxS has gone through the floor.

When we had limited companies we found it impossible to raise any form of finance without providing personal guarantees

Interestingly my partners nephew arrived into Gatwick Airport yesterday from Dubai, coming home for Christmas. Although he has had the tests etc before he took off nobody checked properly before he boarded. When he arrived here he was allowed to walk out of the airport completely unchecked. As were all the other people on his plane and presumably all the other planes. The airport was very busy and the arrivals Hall was packed You really couldn't make it up

This problem has already been seen with less popular rifle calibres. The UK importers aren't interested in importing slow moving stock . I would think places like Italy will just carry on using lead and totally ignore any ban

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There are a lot of differences between most European countries and the UK. First and most obviously many don't have any equivilent to our Social Services. In the countries around the Med its nearly all run by the Church, that goes back hundreds of years.. However outsiders, and that includes you and me, don't qualify for help, its a closed shop.. My friend Gordon lived in Spain for many years but said these British who come out here don't realise, Get sick, have an operation or need help and they will totally blank you. Its the same for the migrants. Also virtually no country has a state funded health system free at the point of delivery like we do. Various schemes but mostly linked to some form of insurance. So many of the "safe" countries offer rubbish deals but many (like Italy) process and rubber stamp the applicants very quickly knowing that once they are rubber stamped they will move north. THANK GOD we left the EU when we did! The flow of people will be relentless, the world is a bad place and its not going to get better. More and more people will be on the move. Canada had a good idea, they said you can come to Canada as long as you agree to live in these regions. Same I would guess in Austrailia etc When I looked at moving to Canada (Nova Scotia) they wanted a $200.000 bond for five years , I could have afforded that but I would not be allowed firearms. Where I was planning to move to it would be necessary to carry a .375 H&H daily every day just to go down to the lake to fish, or to go anywhere. So I never went

A four star hotel for £560 a month???????? including food? dream on a very small flat in London would cost £560 A WEEK plus all the extras We have to remember that the vast majority of asylum seekers come here by using the proper procedures, tick all the boxes and get allowed to stay. But they are all still heavily subsidised because the law says they have to be.

probably about the same as a week in a 4 star hotel?

Moderna does seem to give you a sore arm, maybe I was a bit tired next day. Felt a bit like a slight hangover. A lot better than the alternative, I now know of eleven people who have died from covid and two who have serious long covid So a sore arm is not that bad.

We can't send them back because france wont take them back. Its Macron and his cronies playing silly games. If they had half a brain the French would realise that if we returned them every time eventually the message would sink in and people would stop coming to Calais to try and get across. The camps would empty and both sides would be better off eventually.

The pressure will get more and more. Look what is happening at the Mexican border at the moment. These people are not going to shrug their shoulders and go back home. Same on the borders of Belarus. I don't know what the answer is, trouble is neither do the politicians

Certainly its one of the root causes but the internet is another, it tells people how to go about getting here.

Its a world problem, vast numbers of people in the poorest parts of the world aspire to a better life in the richest countries. Its not going to just stop happening, The world population is set to just keep on growing and growing

Begging has always been organised racket. virtually an industry in London. Whoever thought up the Big Issue scam was an absolute genius

Its about spreading it not dying from it Younger people generally have the highest average number of contacts with other people per day. Known as their "churn" rate. Also they are more likely to be asymptomatic.

Another question I would like an answer to is this. Are these people being fingerprinted and DNAed ? Watching the Border Force series on TV people caught trying to get onto lorries in france when caught are just turned off and told to get lost. Some of them (many?) try over and over. If they were Finger printed and DNA tested they would be on a data base. They could then be told that a record has now been created in France and that means they can never be processed as an applicant in Britain under the first country rule. that may have some deterrent?

Try doing that in America and see how you get treated The thing is. if we returned them all to France pretty soon they would stop coming to the French channel ports trying to get across and France's problem would be solved as well. It would take some time for the message to get through but once it did it would kill the trade

Its the same as Uber drivers, pizza drivers and some parcel deliverers they claim to only work 16 hours a week and that is some sort of magic key that unlocks the benefits door for them. Its a loophole to get working tax credits. Of course nobody knows how many hours they really work Also its illegal to beg but big issue sellers seem to be tolerated. I can't imagine anybody actually buys a copy because they want to read it.

Sea anglers are already in the firing line, not all sea anglers are entirely amateur. Down in Cornwall the line between enthusiastic angler and semi professional fisherman gets a bit blurred. I would like to believe the French fishermen are as heavily policed as our fishermen. Somehow i doubt that they are

The law on mask wearing was from the Governments Emergency powers Covid Act 2020 and was never relaxed for any public transport anywhere in the country when mask wearing was made optional on "Freedom Friday" April this year. But the various railway acts do give TFL the power to make by laws which would be enforcable in court. Fare evasion being the one that springs to mind.

Good job too, so should we in my opinion

Not at the moment im working but It has had a big impact on quite a few of the london based rifle and pistol clubs and gun shops. Holts used to hold auctions in Hammersmith and had to stop.

It is illegal now on anywhere controlled by TfL ie London Underground and buses to transport any form of firearm or air weapon. Part of Mayor Khan's woke agenda which serves no useful purpose what so ever. I wonder how the stalkers getting the night train to Inverness get round it

Thats exactly the point. By not enforcing it they send out the signal that it doesn't matter. I travel regularly on London Underground where it has always been the law that you wear masks. It was never relaxed for public transport but very few people now wear masks. Even the transport police who patrol the platforms and other public areas dont enforce it.

Not that many years ago you could buy .22 single shot pistols and rifles over the counter in France and as much .22 ammunition as you liked with absolutely no checks what so ever and shoot it where you liked. They weren't all that well made but not that dear either