Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

To be fair how many of us look as 'good' as we did in 1986?

 

Tommy Cooper reincarnated as the world's largest seagull...

 

Answer: none

 

What's that expression "You can't polish a t..d" ?

 

To be even more fair, how many of us looked as good as she does now, back in 1986?

 

Peter Beardsley does.

FAO Rovertiger, I resisted the very strong temptation.

The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66407099


Could explain Big Vern though...

 

Do you mean Vern from CERN ?

 

Does Big Vern travel faster than the speed of ****e ? (Apologies Vern old chap No offense intended.)

 

Is that Sting's post-death name?

 

Why not? Too sensible, logical? ....
Maybe should be in 'what grates your gears' thread, as using hotels and sacking their staff to house migrants is a massive gear grinder to me.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...n&cvid=42722ee29ac943f094746f127064be4d&ei=14

... embarked on a crash housebuilding programme with estates of prefab houses..Nightingale hospitals virtually overnight. The London Olympic village went up in weeks. The migrant problem requires similar imagination. Factory-built prefab, or modular, houses could be built quickly on public or Crown land, whether abandoned airfields or Army bases, or urban brownfield sites. Their construction should be accompanied by a fast-track programme of processing migrant claims for asylum, with enough staff employed on short-term contracts to get the job done. It strikes me as a better way of spending the £2billion a year currently going on hotel bedrooms for 50,000 migrants.

 

Or process asylum seekers claims in a timely fashion.

 

Or dont let them into the country in the first place

 

If only it was that simple, turn up wirh no ID claim to be mohamid fleeing the war in Syria, looking suspiciously like someone from the African continent. Need to be housed whilst being processed but object to all accommodation offered aided and abetted by human rights lawyers paid for by the legal aid system. And that's just the start, the time taken to find out who you really are takes ages (if possible at all) The deportation is also appealed in the courts again the lawyers are the one making the most out of it.
Its not an enviable task trying to come up with a solution.

 

And that's all part of why there isn't one easy simple answer.
But for me the article touched on at least some of the really obvious, logical answers.

 

what's wrong with stopping them crossing into UK waters and taking them back to the safety of France?

 

That's what we used to do pre Brexit - the Dublin convention allowed return to the EU country that asylum seekers had left from; that's why so few came here pre Brexit, it was a waste of time and money paying smugglers to get them to the UK only to be given a cup of tea and then sent straight back.