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@BernoulliDefect @CromRedoubt @BlobWithAGob How on earth did they wangle that?

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@notascoolaswine @charliecolecc Three decades and counting now of being governed by people who don't actually believe anything beyond "I'd like to look like a good person in the newspapers tomorrow". Shocking.

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@JRFBoy @The_Man_Who___ Are you saying we're going to have to train British people to scroll on their phones looking surly while "urban youths" bump the TfL barriers? Have they got the right accreditation and skills?

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@bayl_1874 @LBC @IainDale These jobs become more attractive for Brits to do if employers aren't allowed to bring in a constant stream of lower wage competition. We'll get back to having an actual labour market, like we used to, and all the imagined "skills shortages" will magically be fixed.

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It wouldn't, a large part of our problem as a nation is that we've imported lower-wage people rather than just employing the British people already here. We then end up saving no money at all as we have to pay them a state pension and often council house/benefits on top.

If they've been here for decades and not got citizenship then that's on them. I'm not bothered. Choices have consequences!

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@bayl_1874 @LBC @IainDale Changing the law to remove ILR status. Anyone on it would then be without a visa, and would have to go home. No issue at all with doing it; Parliament is sovereign.

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@DPJHodges @DavidCo42764850 Would you still claim to be an independent journalist, or are you willing to just drop the act and admit you're a Conservative activist?

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@BarbaraRich_law @DanNeidle I see. Dug themselves (and my payslip) into an unnecessary hole by assuming that task. No good deed goes unpunished.

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@dontdelay Oh, they don't care. They want money, this is a justification for them to get money, so they'll say it. I don't see why they'd start caring about their grandchildrens' future now, why break the habit of a lifetime?

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I know it's where the debate tends to go, but am far from convinced that it actually matters whether or not they were "notified". Do we have a right to expect government to personally write to us every time something changes? I'd say keeping oneself reasonably informed is part of what it means to be an adult.

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It's really basic things, time and time again. If you asked a random person on the street whether those types of shops are a money laundering/drug dealing risk, they would say yes. And yet our Home Office, despite all the resource we give to it, apparently can't spot the problem or do anything about it. Why?

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@BovrilG @NotMyDing @wonderlandmom @herandrews Great point. Have we stumbled upon the Magic Compassion Tree?

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Possibly, but right now politically they look more fractured than we do. Besides the periodic suggestion that "based" Conor McGregor might stand for President (a ceremonial position, although I'm not if he realises this), there doesn't appear to be an Irish right wing. The most RW mainstream party, FG, still looks to me like a Cameron/Gove version of the Tories.

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@birdwoman1966 @philipgwynfan Why can't you sell them?

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Yes, there is a basic asymmetry between asking and answering a question - takes far more effort to do the latter. I'd go even further and question whether the internet has made productivity much better at all. We've certainly been getting relatively poorer as a country since it came in, and it's without a doubt made working life less pleasant. Yes, you can research more easily, but far more is now expected of the worker.

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@kunley_drukpa @LewisWetzel148 You just can't resist the Congolese Hunga Munga, and I don't blame you.

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Newman frequently comes off second-best when her opponents (sorry, "interviewees") challenge the premise and refuse to just lie down for a punishment beating. That Jordan Peterson interview will live long in the memory, as will this one.

Turns out screeching sanctimoniously about nonsense doesn't always work if the other person knows what they want to say and aren't apologetic about it. Who knew?