Recent content by RedChip

All they now have left is cruelty and nastiness.

Presumably, it will show somewhere in the immigration numbers. So, yeah, probably.

Thought she just scrapped a third at uni? If she is a busy cnut, then the only explanation for a third is thick as a plank.

Ouch

Zambia in the 80's.

Maybe true about elites (and maybe your guy is/was an elite everywhere he travelled), but there is a world of difference for the common citizen. For example, there are many countries where access to a forum like this is barred, never mind the freedom to say half the stuff we say here. Similarly...

It might be a good thing for most people not to retire at all.

Rishi Sunak’s report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular :lol:

This is my worry, too. The chances of such a revolution are pretty small if you ignore blind optimism in technology saving the day.

The last few pags of economic arguments and counter arguments have been quite interesting. I kind of see both sides. I wonder though, what if the last 14 years of Tory rule have broken the UK public services AND finances badly enough that it can't be fixed? That is it cannot borrow enough to fix...

It seems a weird choice on face of it. There are safer countries that would have taken the money. I wonder though, Tories being Tories, whether they picked it precisely because it is not safe, not really any body's first choice for asylum.

Presumably, most of the UK candidates that can enter and want to do the courses are already doing the courses. Even if universities lower entry standards, there probably are not that many more UK students they can recruit. Plus, UK students cannot really replace the revenue from international...

They don't really care about impacts. Universities are already feeling the impact with lower numbers of international students this year. Some will be in real financial difficulties as a result.

That would work? Suppose that's one way to counter a Farage come back.

So, do Tories think Cummings can pull off another con? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/31/dominic-cummings-held-secret-election-talks-with-rishi-sunak