I'm wondering what the response would be if this said "Civil service interns must be upper class, government says" Either way is wrong. Selection should be on ability, not class. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ez3v9v8jqo
Nearly a month since I registered my Citroen C3 with my local Citroen Garage (9miles away ?) to have the airbags replaced......today I gave them a call to see what was happening....and they said that they are still waiting for parts....let along give me any idea when my car would be done....they did sound a tad uninterested.....it sounded that they had a very long list of C3's to put right and had no idea when it would happen....I bet there are C3 owners who desperately need their car.....but Citroen are not supplying courtesy cars or any form of compensation.......sounds like a few court cases will be happening.....120,000 C3's recalled....so invalid insurance if you go on the road.....my MOT runs out in a few days time (as many other will).....it would fail with faulty airbags.....and will I be expected to get my uninsured car to their garage for them one day to put right ?............what a disaster all round.
Following the appalling story of two teenagers who apparently got some sort of twisted satisfaction from torturing kittens to death, there's a story that some moron has apparently set a hedgehog on fire in here in Plymouth. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/police-hunting-scum-who-tortured-10400423 The two twats who killed the kittens, being of school-age, received only nominal punishment. I have a better idea for them. It involves the lion enclosure at Longleat.
The hedgehog was probably down to travellers........ U understand it's a delicacy in certain circles.
Labour was accused of wasting money for America's benefit last night after Donald Trump signed a deal to deport migrants to Rwanda. Up to 250 failed asylum seekers will stay in facilities paid for by British taxpayers...including the Hope Hostel in Kigali. They will be sent to the African nation under President Trump's mass removal programme. Former Home Secretary Sir James Cleverly said..."This was always likely to happen"....Labour scrapped the scheme that we had paid for ...didn't tell the Rwandans until after they had told the press and sent a big invitation to the cross-Channel people smugglers. "Labour wasted our money and the USA is making use of it". Sir Keir Starmer cancelled the Rwanda deportation scheme on his first day in office last year...describing it as a "gimmick". Labour claimed the Tories spent £700million on a deal that resulted in just four failed asylum seekers voluntarily moving to Rwanda. Yolande Makolo...the government spokeswoman for Rwanda...said the nation had agreed to the US deal in part..."because nearly every Rwandan family has experienced the hardships of displacement and our societal values are founded on reintergration and rehabilitation. She added..."under the agreement Rwanda has the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement ". "Those approved will be be provided with workforce training...healthcare and accommodation support to jump-start their lives here...giving them the opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world over the last decade". It comes after Labour was urged to recall Parliament to discuss the Channel migrant "emergency" after the number of arrivals in the UK surged this year. Daily Express...Wed 06/08/2025.
More importantly, that dimwit and disgrace to his family name, RFK Jnr, has cancelled $0.5 billion of research funding for mRNA vaccines. His narcissistic orange boss has meanwhile threatened tariffs on drugs. The only thing I can say is that when monkey pox or some other disgusting lurgy takes hold in the human race, don’t expect the European pharmaceutical research community to come to your aid.
Also I see that our estimable Devon & Cornwall Police are to have sniffer dogs on the gates at the Board Masters festival. Anyone carrying drugs will be denied entry. Firstly, what a bunch of spoil sports. Secondly, this is likely to prevent attendees from bringing in whatever they’ve bought in small quantities from their usual trusted suppliers and instead encourage them to buy from unknown gangs inside the site who have the wherewithal to get bulk quantities of drugs in. That’s not likely to improve safety. Not that I’m admitting to any direct experience of course.
We could help them out.....but maybe a 50% tariff on sales to the USA might be necessary..... ALSO in China. Chikungunya Virus A mosquito-borne virus has infected 7000 people across at least 13 cities has sparked precautions similar to those imposed during the Covid Pandemic.
First day of the governments new plan for migrants....."one in...one out"....deal between London and Paris ....illegals arriving by small boats will be returned to France in exchange for Britain accepting an equal number of legitimate asylum seekers with UK family connections. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp...witnessed two boats carrying dozens of people being escorted to Britain within 30 minutes of each other....After escorting one to UK waters...the French vessel's captain radioed a Border Force boat asking for its 60 lifejackets back. Mr Philp said "The people-smugglers conveyor belt is now a round-trip paid for by British taxpayers...We were in the middle of the Channel just on the UK side of the border...witnessing the French handing over two boatloads of illegal migrants...with Border Force picking them up and providing a taxi service back to the UK. This is the first day of the Labour Government's new plan and here is evidence it is not working at all....seeing the French asking for their lifejackets back so they can facilitate even more illegal immigration later on". Yes you've guessed it...... Daily Express...Thurs...07/08/2025. PS.....So the more the French can help across to UK waters.....the more can be exchanged for legitimate asylum seekers with UK family connections......a win win situation for the French.
I'm saying nothing of the sort.....what I am saying is that the French will find a way of milking the situation to their own benefit....and still take all the £millions that we give them.....please don't read into it what I haven't said....it seems to happen quite often...interpretation seems to be biased in only one direction....a balanced view seems to be impossible. What does concern me is the high percentage of migrants coming over by boat are young men....from totally different backgrounds.....and beliefs.....where raping a 12 year old girl seems to be acceptable.....the South East is becoming saturated with non-european beliefs that are against all our principles.....and these migrants are not being vetted as being acceptable to fitting into our culture.....Plymouth being one of the whitest cities in the country....means you don't come across all the problems that we see happening around us.....they do not want to intergrate into society and be part of a true multicultral society...it is breeding problems as we have been witnessing in places like Rochdale and similar areas.....were the Police are literally scared to do their job properly because of being afraid of being called racist.
So you plan is what? Sending the Royal Navy to machine-gun them in mid-Channel? I'm sure there a large number in Reform who would. It is true that a high proportion of those coming in are coming solely for economic reasons. Whilst they have no right to do that, in many ways I have more sympathy with them than with the millions of Brits who are content to sit at home and milk the benefits system. They pay thousands to get here and if perhaps there's a quick and legal way to send a small number straight back, with no access to the British courts, perhaps the waste of their money will provide a deterrent to the rest. It may not work but it has a logic to it which is more than can be said for most other schemes. "the South East is becoming saturated with non-european beliefs" Now frankly, you've just parroted back exactly what I said to you during the Brexit debate. When we had large numbers of white, Christian workers here, largely from democratic(ish) Eastern European countries, you wanted to leave the EU to drive them out. You got your way and now they have largely gone and you can't get a plumber or electrician for love of money. I said to you that those white, Christian democrats would be replaced from people from further afield and they have been. Now you yearn for the return of "European beliefs". Now personally, I don't care where people come from, what colour they are or what they worship. I do of course care whether everyone abides by the rule-of-law but then, we've got rioting white thugs on the streets, haven't we, and an acknowledged rise in right wing terrorism threats?
As you probably know, I'm Cornish from a family going back generations on both sides. The Cornish coat-of-arms shows a miner, a farmer and a fisherman. Most Cornish people would prefer those were the main industries and that tourism had never been invented. Nevertheless, this is absolute nonsense. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/ne...r&cvid=e8eb7730881f48e5f41c855dd5110604&ei=33 Perhaps I don't need to say it's nonsense as it's from GB News, but we'll pass on that. Fowey is very yachty, has literary connections with Quiller-Couch and Daphne Du Maurier, who lived in nearby Menabilly. Jesus is said to arrived at Fowey with Joseph of Arimathea, so those feet in ancient time, didn't walk first upon walk upon England's mountains green but the banks of the Fowey River. Of slightly less significance, Dawn French lived in the town for many years but has now sold her house I think, nice as it is. please log in to view this image It's also a working port. Here in 1904 please log in to view this image and more currently The Toms & Sons shipyard, a proper Cornish indistry, still operates on the other side of the river in Polruan. However, like all Cornish seaside towns, Fowey has been over-run by second-homers, Airbnb and emmits generally. So, I don't know who these "Angry Britons" are but they sure aren't Proper Cornish, who aren't likely to be upset by a shipload of tourists rocking up with more money than sense and then, most importantly, sailing off back where they came from without buying their houses out from under them
notDistant as a proud Cornishman do you recognize some of these surnames. Wearne.....Chegwidden.....Penalurick.....Bolitho.....Boulton and Mudford.....some of them spelt with slight variations. Since Covid I have for some time been on ...My Heritage ...trekking down my family.....managed to get back 250 years on my mothers side and the above names have popped up over quite a few generations. My fathers side was more difficult....his parents surnames were only seperated by one having an "S" on the end .....and the spellings seem to vary so easily ....plus their homes (mostly Farms) changed there names generation by generation......and also a 100 years or so ago I had to contend with birth and marriage certificates have signatures with only an "X" on.....meaning that they were unable to read or write.....(darkest Wales).
