Fri Sep 05, 2025 2:31 pm
Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:06 pm
AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:25 pm
Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:25 pm
AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
Sat Sep 06, 2025 9:18 pm
Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:36 am
Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:49 am
AJ1927 wrote:UK can't actually put an official number on the actual correct amount of ilegal people in the UK.
It's is estimated that anything between 120,000 to 1.3m will be undocumented migrants.
Now when you look across to Turkey, where they border countries like Syria, Afghanistan etc and their numbers are anything between 440,000 to 3,6 M undocumented migrants, I'd say its alot worse for them than it is us.
We have more ilegal migrants who have been here 5/10 years or more. Meaning they were children most likely when they were bought to these shores.
Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:35 pm
pembroke allan wrote:AJ1927 wrote:UK can't actually put an official number on the actual correct amount of ilegal people in the UK.
It's is estimated that anything between 120,000 to 1.3m will be undocumented migrants.
Now when you look across to Turkey, where they border countries like Syria, Afghanistan etc and their numbers are anything between 440,000 to 3,6 M undocumented migrants, I'd say its alot worse for them than it is us.
We have more ilegal migrants who have been here 5/10 years or more. Meaning they were children most likely when they were bought to these shores.
Think the difference is in Turkey they kept in camps near border run by agencies.... we give them a lift to uk we pay them for being here we give them accommodation ect
Plus only got to walk into Turkey... yes other countries have it worse undoubtedly but Do we have to give them legal aid to help stay in UK.... undoubtedly France is the problem for fo many coming here but we have no concertive plan to remove those that not entitled to be here ... by 2050 we'll have bigger population than rest of European countries!
Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:10 pm
AJ1927 wrote:pembroke allan wrote:AJ1927 wrote:UK can't actually put an official number on the actual correct amount of ilegal people in the UK.
It's is estimated that anything between 120,000 to 1.3m will be undocumented migrants.
Now when you look across to Turkey, where they border countries like Syria, Afghanistan etc and their numbers are anything between 440,000 to 3,6 M undocumented migrants, I'd say its alot worse for them than it is us.
We have more ilegal migrants who have been here 5/10 years or more. Meaning they were children most likely when they were bought to these shores.
Think the difference is in Turkey they kept in camps near border run by agencies.... we give them a lift to uk we pay them for being here we give them accommodation ect
Plus only got to walk into Turkey... yes other countries have it worse undoubtedly but Do we have to give them legal aid to help stay in UK.... undoubtedly France is the problem for fo many coming here but we have no concertive plan to remove those that not entitled to be here ... by 2050 we'll have bigger population than rest of European countries!
So rather than focus on the individuals in boats surely the apathy should be directed to the men and women in suits creating this issue?
To Quote Akala "fight with a guy on a Friday night, dont know what for? But won't fight with a guy, suit and a tie, who sends your kids to die in a war! They dont send the kids of the rich or politicians! they send your kids, the poor British!"
Identify the real enemy rather than focus on the target the real enemy puts in front of you.
Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:18 pm
Sun Sep 07, 2025 3:31 pm
Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
Sun Sep 07, 2025 4:32 pm
pembroke allan wrote:Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
Depends on how many of these gangs there are? Padt experience said one goes another takes over plus got to negotiate with foreign gvmnts as gangs not in UK generally! Still think France is the answer but appears no matter how much £££££s or manpower we give yhem nothing changes still have them waving migrants off from beach? Why can't they stop boat leaving a river to go yo a beach? Surely it's not hard to station a fast boat to stop what are very slow dinghies used by traffickers .... more you stop them leaving France less likely people will try ? at moment wheres the disentive to stay away none French do minimal and border force give them lift rest way why not simply take them back to France? No France glad to get rid of them less work for gvmnt to sort out
Sun Sep 07, 2025 5:19 pm
Bakedalasker wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
Depends on how many of these gangs there are? Padt experience said one goes another takes over plus got to negotiate with foreign gvmnts as gangs not in UK generally! Still think France is the answer but appears no matter how much £££££s or manpower we give yhem nothing changes still have them waving migrants off from beach? Why can't they stop boat leaving a river to go yo a beach? Surely it's not hard to station a fast boat to stop what are very slow dinghies used by traffickers .... more you stop them leaving France less likely people will try ? at moment wheres the disentive to stay away none French do minimal and border force give them lift rest way why not simply take them back to France? No France glad to get rid of them less work for gvmnt to sort out
About right.
Once on our beaches we have a legal right to look after them through the EHCR. Hence why Reform want us to leave it.
As for the gang you are right. One gang gets taken down only to be replaced by another. Much to my surprise though are most of these gangs are from Syria area and they make their way into the EU by Turkey. There is very little preventative action to stop them.
Sun Sep 07, 2025 6:14 pm
pembroke allan wrote:Bakedalasker wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
Depends on how many of these gangs there are? Padt experience said one goes another takes over plus got to negotiate with foreign gvmnts as gangs not in UK generally! Still think France is the answer but appears no matter how much £££££s or manpower we give yhem nothing changes still have them waving migrants off from beach? Why can't they stop boat leaving a river to go yo a beach? Surely it's not hard to station a fast boat to stop what are very slow dinghies used by traffickers .... more you stop them leaving France less likely people will try ? at moment wheres the disentive to stay away none French do minimal and border force give them lift rest way why not simply take them back to France? No France glad to get rid of them less work for gvmnt to sort out
About right.
Once on our beaches we have a legal right to look after them through the EHCR. Hence why Reform want us to leave it.
As for the gang you are right. One gang gets taken down only to be replaced by another. Much to my surprise though are most of these gangs are from Syria area and they make their way into the EU by Turkey. There is very little preventative action to stop them.
Thing us theynever reach our beaches we give them a lift from mid channel! They actually know that they need to diall 999 as soon as in range of uk airwaves so we go pick them up ? We've given France around 200m pat couple years plus manpower to stop them all they do is stop odd ones that makes them look good but in reality they do nothing to help keep them in France ...... nothing in international law in stopping UK taking them back to France if we can't France can send a boat out to take them back.... do this won't take long for traffickers to lose buisness as migrants know its waste time paying to go nowhere.
But it's obvious that France doesn't want migrants in their country stuck in calais ..
Sun Sep 07, 2025 6:40 pm
Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:33 pm
Starvinmarvin wrote:Bakedalasker wrote:Keir Starmer mentions about going after the organised criminal gangs involved with the smuggling.
I'm guessing we will not know how far this has progressed until arrest are made but would not a decline in beech arrivals bean indication they are being arrested?
"Smash the gangs" was a PR exercise it's not in Frances interest to stop any boats, it just becomes their problem. Same as one in one out. We can't make the French do anything about this
Mon Sep 08, 2025 6:36 pm
Mon Sep 08, 2025 6:48 pm
MR BIRCHGROVE wrote:Migration to UK is needed in certain sectors such as our NHS and Carer sector amongst others.
But illegal migrants should not be allowed to stay in this country.
How we return them is very debatable depending on the country of origin.
Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:03 pm
Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:18 pm
Floppsy wrote:Immigration, both legal and illegal, has been out of control for years.
There is a massive imbalance in the focus and coverage of those arriving by boat, which represents about 10% of net migration each year. The previous government did nothing to control the legal migration and allowed the backlog of processing both to get out of control, and the current government are being pulled from all sides trying to do bits to show some level of action.
It's a mess.
Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:22 am
AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:26 am
Bluebina wrote:AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
It's a nice story![]()
But it's nonsesnse.
Fact Check
David Attenborough wrongly linked to false online claim about 'black and red ants in a jar'
The post includes an image of five red ants appearing to pull a black ant apart. A statement attributed to David Attenborough is superimposed above the image.
The text reads: “If you collect 100 black ants and 100 red ants and put them in a jar, nothing will happen. But if you shake the jar violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other.
"Reds will believe black is the enemy, while black will believe red is the enemy when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. The same is true in our society. Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves: Who shook the jar?”
The text has been shared tens of thousands of times alongside a claim it came from Attenborough, for example here, here and here.
However, the claim is false, according to Attenborough's lawyer, Michael Ridley.
He told AFP in an email that Attenbourgh “categorically denies ever having made any such statement”.
Multiple experts also explained that the scenario described in the posts is inaccurate.
Entomologist from James Cook University, Associate Professor Lori Lach, told AFP that regardless of whether you shake a jar containing two species of ants, they will likely be aggressive toward each other.
“The level of aggression will vary with species (there are over 15,000 named ant species, so there would be variation), how frequent the contact is, and how long they have been separated from the rest of their colony, but it’s highly unlikely that "nothing would happen"," she explained.
“We would also expect to see aggressive behaviour with ants of the same species from two different colonies. Even though they look identical to us, the ants can "smell" outsiders,” Loch said on October 28, 2021.
Professor of Entomology from University of California Davis, Philip S. Ward, told AFP the post “sounds dubious” and said that he was not aware of experiments pitting black ants and fire ants against each other in a jar.
“If you place ants of different species in a jar, they will generally behave aggressively to individuals of the opposite species, regardless of whether the jar is shaken or not,” Ward told AFP on October 23, 2021.
“This behaviour is mediated by smell: ants of different species, and even those from different nests of the same species, present a different "bouquet" of odours, and ant workers usually behave aggressively to those who smell different,” he sai
Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:27 am
Bluebina wrote:AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
It's a nice story![]()
But it's nonsesnse.
Fact Check
David Attenborough wrongly linked to false online claim about 'black and red ants in a jar'
The post includes an image of five red ants appearing to pull a black ant apart. A statement attributed to David Attenborough is superimposed above the image.
The text reads: “If you collect 100 black ants and 100 red ants and put them in a jar, nothing will happen. But if you shake the jar violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other.
"Reds will believe black is the enemy, while black will believe red is the enemy when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. The same is true in our society. Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves: Who shook the jar?”
The text has been shared tens of thousands of times alongside a claim it came from Attenborough, for example here, here and here.
However, the claim is false, according to Attenborough's lawyer, Michael Ridley.
He told AFP in an email that Attenbourgh “categorically denies ever having made any such statement”.
Multiple experts also explained that the scenario described in the posts is inaccurate.
Entomologist from James Cook University, Associate Professor Lori Lach, told AFP that regardless of whether you shake a jar containing two species of ants, they will likely be aggressive toward each other.
“The level of aggression will vary with species (there are over 15,000 named ant species, so there would be variation), how frequent the contact is, and how long they have been separated from the rest of their colony, but it’s highly unlikely that "nothing would happen"," she explained.
“We would also expect to see aggressive behaviour with ants of the same species from two different colonies. Even though they look identical to us, the ants can "smell" outsiders,” Loch said on October 28, 2021.
Professor of Entomology from University of California Davis, Philip S. Ward, told AFP the post “sounds dubious” and said that he was not aware of experiments pitting black ants and fire ants against each other in a jar.
“If you place ants of different species in a jar, they will generally behave aggressively to individuals of the opposite species, regardless of whether the jar is shaken or not,” Ward told AFP on October 23, 2021.
“This behaviour is mediated by smell: ants of different species, and even those from different nests of the same species, present a different "bouquet" of odours, and ant workers usually behave aggressively to those who smell different,” he sai
Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:41 am
AJ1927 wrote:Bluebina wrote:AJ1927 wrote:We have more in common with immigrants than we do with our leaders.
Rich maintain their status by many ventures, one of them being, getting poor people to fight with one another rather than identifying who they should actually be fighting.
Its like the red ant and black ant theory.
Put 100 of each in a jar and nothing will happen, but if you shake the jar, they will fight to the death! The red will think the black are the enemy and the black will think the red are the enemy. when in truth the person who has shaken the jar is their enemy.
It's a nice story![]()
But it's nonsesnse.
Fact Check
David Attenborough wrongly linked to false online claim about 'black and red ants in a jar'
The post includes an image of five red ants appearing to pull a black ant apart. A statement attributed to David Attenborough is superimposed above the image.
The text reads: “If you collect 100 black ants and 100 red ants and put them in a jar, nothing will happen. But if you shake the jar violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other.
"Reds will believe black is the enemy, while black will believe red is the enemy when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. The same is true in our society. Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves: Who shook the jar?”
The text has been shared tens of thousands of times alongside a claim it came from Attenborough, for example here, here and here.
However, the claim is false, according to Attenborough's lawyer, Michael Ridley.
He told AFP in an email that Attenbourgh “categorically denies ever having made any such statement”.
Multiple experts also explained that the scenario described in the posts is inaccurate.
Entomologist from James Cook University, Associate Professor Lori Lach, told AFP that regardless of whether you shake a jar containing two species of ants, they will likely be aggressive toward each other.
“The level of aggression will vary with species (there are over 15,000 named ant species, so there would be variation), how frequent the contact is, and how long they have been separated from the rest of their colony, but it’s highly unlikely that "nothing would happen"," she explained.
“We would also expect to see aggressive behaviour with ants of the same species from two different colonies. Even though they look identical to us, the ants can "smell" outsiders,” Loch said on October 28, 2021.
Professor of Entomology from University of California Davis, Philip S. Ward, told AFP the post “sounds dubious” and said that he was not aware of experiments pitting black ants and fire ants against each other in a jar.
“If you place ants of different species in a jar, they will generally behave aggressively to individuals of the opposite species, regardless of whether the jar is shaken or not,” Ward told AFP on October 23, 2021.
“This behaviour is mediated by smell: ants of different species, and even those from different nests of the same species, present a different "bouquet" of odours, and ant workers usually behave aggressively to those who smell different,” he sai
Think you missed the moral of the story there bud.
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BlueGog wrote:Lot's of today's problems are simple down to Brexit believe it or not.
Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:36 pm
BlueGog wrote:Lot's of today's problems are simple down to Brexit believe it or not.