@baylissbaghdad Read Ed West on this. The younger the offender when the first offence occurred the more likely they are to be lifelong criminals. Prioritise releasing the older ones less likely to reoffend
@lukas_ohl It's a tidal river and is massive at that point so wouldn't be a problem with the water flow, I assume the environmental objection is the power required to desalinate it?
@RupertLowe10 Remove it as a future state liability. Keep lock for over 40s but abolish state pension for today's under 40s, compensate appropriately and heavily incentivise private pension savings. Pensions credit cancelled now.
@lintcstealth@TPointUK Our navy wouldn't need to, they just turn the boats around and point them back in the direction of France and send them on their way
@PositivFuturist Is there one person on earth that can compose poetry, write advanced code and generally advise on pretty much any subject to multiple people simultaneously, I would say we were past the singularity a while ago
@wallaceme The passport chaps and chappesses are at British borders are infinitely more cheerful than the surly European ones or the aggressive American ones
@ItsTaz1989 ChatGPT tells me that other than immediately postwar (45-49) annual asylum claims didn’t reach 10k until the 90s. Looks like we’re both wrong but 10k is closer to my handful than your upper limit of 99k
@lintcstealth@tomhfh Didn’t see it was rendered but some brief research shows it’s been done sympathetically in the way it would have been done originally, seems ok to me?
@technopopulist We need to understand that France is a massive country and the bit that benefits from being close to us is insignificant in their national terms
@technopopulist As a long term strategy we should be improving/subsidising port links to BE, NL and DK, ridiculous to be so dependent on one other country for connections to the continent
@technopopulist That’s why floating barriers in the channel or secure ships straight to Ascension is the only realistic option if we can’t deport direct or send to a third party country (both of which require exiting ECHR)