Mungler

And we have 2 for 2 out of the 2 murders at the Carnival. Someone owes me £40 to a charity of my choice (that’s £20 each for two correct predictions). Want to go double or quits on the next carnival? .

I’m up for that. Probably cheaper too. Who’s going to do it? 😀

You only need to focus on the first 6 months - once it gets out and becomes common knowledge that there’s no getting in without passing the entrance exam and via a trip to Rwanda. The biggest draw to the UK (aside from the state handouts; nhs, housing, education) it’s the publicity sent back home over iPhones. We can’t afford state handouts anymore, when the state includes an additional million people from the rest of the world year on year. It’s simple mathematics and physics. Stop the free stuff and no one will want to come - it’s not like they’ll be coming for the weather and nicely tarmacced roads. By allowing uncontrolled mass immigration to continue we are all making ourselves poorer and less safe.

If you think this is a great start, you have bumped your head. My predictions : 1. jealous and spiteful taxation which will stifle growth and reduce economic output. With the highest incidence of taxation (following covid) there is yet more to come but Labour are incapable of delivering value for money. The tax take will be spaffed. People will be less inclined to bother or strive - indeed, why bother if the government will lift the majority of your earnings out of your pocket or pay you to watch telly and pop out more state dependant kids. 2. the plans they have to regulate the rental sector will backfire and there will be a shortage of rental housing and spiralling rents. They cannot build the housing stock they claim to want to build in the time available. Absolute lack of practical insight here. 3. we will get inflation under Labour as sure as night follows day. They do not do either growth or financial prudence and their plans for public sector pay and minimum wage will backfire. Anyone who knows anything about inflation will tell you it is the root of all evil. Give someone a 6% pay rise but real world inflation runs at 9%, they’re actually 3% worse off. There ought to be interest rate cuts by the end of the year (but these look increasingly minimal / doubtful). My tip, if rates go below 5% then fix for 5 years. 4. Foreign policy - well, I’ve never met a true lefty who will give a Jew an even break. Labour are increasingly subservient to a well organised and motivated religious minority now. 5. Free speech - it’s gone under the radar but immediately doing away with the planned academic freedom / free speech act - that’s a massive red flag. 6. Increased government, increased cost of government and more people dependant on the state - just how they like it. If I was more mobile, I’d skip out of the country for 5 years. Edit Public sector pay / pensions, the NHS and the drain of mass immigration will drag us to a tipping point sooner or later. The only thing to do is try and insulate yourself as best as possible. When the drain of the state exceeds the tax take, all borrowing is maxed out the ‘haves’ refuse to keep paying for everyone else, well that’s going to get interesting. There is argument for creating a virus that will with better certainty iron out everyone over 85 😉 especially when you look at the pensions black hole and how 75% of NHS resources are applied to people in the last 3 years of life. The lefties in Canada are big on assisted suicide - watch this space.

If, and granted it’s a big if, if the Germans get this off the ground and it works (as I suspect it will if properly implemented [like so many things]) then boy oh boy there’ll be a storm. It’ll be interesting to see what the EU and the ECHR make of it. That said, I’m sure the ECHR will find a way if there’s a German or French will involved. Frankly, it smells of a liberal Euro elite German government trying to put a show on for their increasingly disgruntled electorate all the while knowing they’ll be doing F-all because Rwanda too deeply offends their liberal elite values regardless of obvious need staring them in the face. Love to see what the German greens make of it.

Yes Yes But now we watch as everyone wishes the Germans all the best in adopting and implementation it. Go figure - and yet was a humanitarian unworkable Echr basket case not 10 minutes ago under the conservatives. Its either hypocrisy or a touch of ‘slap a euro badge on it and it’s wunderbar all of a sudden’. Rather than the Germans picking up from where the conservatives left off, maybe Labour could have picked up where the conservatives left off? That appears to make a little more sense, no?

How did we ‘squander’ that money if it can be used to full advantage by others with an equivalent scheme and objective? What’s the differential? Was that same opportunity not available to us until pointlessly torpedo’d by Starmer? Indeed, if the Germans are seriously looking at it as a viable option then do you accept it as a possible viable option?

Oh no they’re not. The government has no money of its own, it only has the money it lifts out of our pockets to spend (aka spaff up a wall). So, we’re all now paying it for another 5,000…. And people will still wonder why the high earners and high tax payers will pull stumps and relocate elsewhere.

That’s the spirit 😆 How does everyone else in the world get by without being in the EU. Besides, it will all fall apart before we have to worry about rejoining a sinking ship. Trade always wins out - that’s economics. Trading block = great, that’s where it all started. Bin off the centralised control and loss of sovereignty. It’ll get there once the current arrangements stop suiting the Germans and French .

It would be delicious. Wonder how they will deal with their hand wringers and the ECHR - no doubt the will pull the age old mainland European trick of pleasing themselves and two fingering the rules.

This. I had rather hoped that by the time the decade anniversary of Brexit rolled round (not long now) the remoaners would have moved on after seeing with their own eyes that the roof hadn’t fallen in on us and that it wasn’t all milk and honey in their beloved EU - indeed, what that space closely because it’s all change in magical EU land…

Demographics is destiny. Douglas Murray noted over a decade ago that immigrants immediately set about having large families to grow their own security blanket. Makes sense really and shouldn’t be a surprise. No one voted for mass immigration and all the parties made hollow promises to limit and reduce it. It is a mystery why it’s still happening today (and will for the next 5 years). Even the EU countries have woken up to it albeit too late and old Tony B now notes the downside…

Sorry, not sure there was a point to respond to in that ramble. The point I was making is that if you wish to accuse someone of selective quoting it may be an idea not to then do it in your next 4 posts 😆 Just a passing thought. Incidentally, I don’t claim to be smart. Pragmatic and with both feet on the ground yes. Being right more often than not - well that’s a cross I have to bear 😆

If this is even half true it’s flippin hilarious

He was having a long chat. One of many interviews across a number of subjects he’s given. You can selectively extract whatever snippets you like from that chat in a desperate attempt to find ‘complex and cultural issues’ or a ‘holistic approach’ but we’ve all seen you skip over the bulk of his 2018 interview and the stuff at the top of this interview being: “Secondly, we have to be honest about who is dying and where. There are two young people dying every week in our city. ***Almost all of them are black. ***Almost all of them are being killed by other black youngsters.***” Speaking of the Afghan community - well that’s not likely to help the black on black knife crime epidemic very much. And they have very little to do with black on black knife crime…