Nope. It is well known that the majority of those coming are actual refugees and refugees tend not to be dissuaded from coming by harsh conditions, not least because there are no conditions harsher than what they are fleeing - they have little to lose. Often those arriving in Britain want to be

@abbyinnes.bsky.social has come up with the wonderful phrase " the grievance factory".

It conjures up Farage as the factory manager, Robinson as the factory foreman, Lee Anderson as personnel manager, Reform voters on the production line, Elon as the Chairman and the Daily Mail running sales.

Couldn't agree more. One of the best albums of the 70s, and that's a pretty high bar.

I first posted that about March time.

I don't know where the myth of McSweeney as electoral genius comes from.
Paddington Bear could have led Labour to victory as the Tories imploded.
If McS was any fucking use, Lab would have hit the ground running instead of stumbling around like drunks for first 6 months.

And a truly rocking version of Memphis, with McLagen on fire.

Foreign capital doesn't add to the local economy, it supplants it and then holds you to ransom. Ask Scunthorpe.
Like x 'new jobs' in an out-of-town shopping mall probably destroys 2x jobs and a vibrant town centre.

The headline is wrong. As the later text says, Acton Central is on the Overground not the Underground.

I should keep that as a pinned post.
Engaging consultants is usually either an admission you haven't got the skills to do your job or an arse-covering exercise to justify or excuse doing something nasty and unpopular.

Consultants ALWAYS give bosses the answers they want to hear.
It's the basis of their upselling and putting themselves in pole position for the next engagement.
It's just what they do!

"...fighting the Marxist battles of the last century...."

Calm down. We can deal with despair. It's the hope that kills.

Anyone trying to tell me McSweeney is some sort of Munster Machiavelli?
He's as fucking useless as the rest of them, unless he's some long term de Valera sleeper getting revenge for 1916.

Given his record for stiffing people who have worked for him, what lawyers would take him on?
Ah! Of course! Carter Ruck.

On the other hand we bought our first house for 3 times my salary. £6700 for a 3-bed semi, even if we only had deckchairs to sit on.
I could just turn up to a Div 1 footy match and pay on the gate instead of planning it like the invasion of Poland
Every era has pros and cons.