Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

Yes. V frustrating.

Not when they need a doctor.

Which will still need immigrants. White British nurses and doctors won't suddenly materialise out of nowhere.

Tom Cox always makes my day. Where would we be without him?

My Dad was 635 Squadron. He was very young, was awarded his DFM when still 19 years old.

Attention seeking.

Top right looks like some kind of cotoneaster

top right is ivy, bottom left alchemila mollis

Too many people want all the things that taxes provide, and complain loudly when they don't get them, but seem to have a blind spot when facing the reality that there isn't a magic money tree to fund them.

I'm sure I didn't pay to go to Evensong at Westminster Abbey. But I do agree that the charge to visit as a tourist is very expensive.