Suella Braverman - sacked as Home Secretary (p394)

TinFoilHat said:
An ex dumped me to live on Portland.

Last time I saw her she married a gammon dipper. That barge will have her preparing the Molotov's.
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Portland is a weird desolate place - work used to take me there fairly regularly in the 90's. The inhabitants hated outsiders and would rather there be no bridge to the main land. At the time the Naval Base had recently closed and the RNAS base was going the same way so aside from working in the prison or the young offenders institution you only had fishing as a job really
 
bluethrunthru said:
Portland is a weird desolate place - work used to take me there fairly regularly in the 90's. The inhabitants hated outsiders and would rather there be no bridge to the main land. At the time the Naval Base had recently closed and the RNAS base was going the same way so aside from working in the prison or the young offenders institution you only had fishing as a job really
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I got that feeling.

Found a bar which felt more like a basement that foreigners disappeared in and never came back.
 
bluethrunthru said:
They ordered 3 but then found only one harbour would accept a mooring request so 2 were sent back from whence they came. The chances of them getting any more organised are virtually zero - its all just gesture politics trying to look like you are doing something before a GE. The fact they fucked it up so comprehensively in 5 days only actually highlights how bad they are at governing. They have no plan - they have no policy just gestures and culture wars
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This is the bit that really gets me about this government. Between this and the Rwanda "policy", what we're seeing is the world's most obvious and blatant PR stunt. 50 refugees on a barge. 3 people on a plane to Rwanda eventually told to get off it - nobody actually sent there so far.

Even if some people agree that this is the way of handling it, how can even the most simple of simple folk think these are contributing anything to what amounts to our multiple national systemic crises? You'd have to be dumb as bricks to see these things as anything other than yet another unjustified cost charged to the public purse.

The Bibby Stockholm is essentially the most expensive billboard ever conceived. They could purchase every billboard in Times Square for 10 whole days with adverts saying "Keir Starmer is a ****" for the amount this is costing. But of course, they'd have to spend their own money on that wouldn't they and not ours.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
This is the bit that really gets me about this government. Between this and the Rwanda "policy", what we're seeing is the world's most obvious and blatant PR stunt. 50 refugees on a barge. 3 people on a plane to Rwanda eventually told to get off it - nobody actually sent there so far.

Even if some people agree that this is the way of handling it, how can even the most simple of simple folk think these are contributing anything to what amounts to our multiple national systemic crises? You'd have to be dumb as bricks to see these things as anything other than yet another unjustified cost charged to the public purse.

The Bibby Stockholm is essentially the most expensive billboard ever conceived. They could purchase every billboard in Times Square for 10 whole days with adverts saying "Keir Starmer is a ****" for the amount this is costing. But of course, they'd have to spend their own money on that wouldn't they and not ours.
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Exactly right. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Rwanda or barge ideas, neither initiative remotely passes the value for money test or have any hope of meeting the other criteria of acting as a deterrent for asylum seekers to come here. Both initiatives are obviously rabble rousing stunts with no hope of achieving anything substantive, and the instigators should be prosecuted for wasting public money. If the wasted money was used to fund the processing of the backlog, those not entitled to be here would be long gone and those that met the criteria for asylum would be tax paying contributors to the country filling desperately needed vacancies. Obviously it’s the government’s plan to have a vulnerable group that supporters can rail against for utilising resources desperately needed to fund public services.
 
It's truly baffling why anyone would want to come here given the state of the country.
I am not voting for any of these useless political parties we have again.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Portland is a weird desolate place - work used to take me there fairly regularly in the 90's. The inhabitants hated outsiders and would rather there be no bridge to the main land. At the time the Naval Base had recently closed and the RNAS base was going the same way so aside from working in the prison or the young offenders institution you only had fishing as a job really
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www.bbc.co.uk

Mark Steel's in Town - Series 1 - Portland - BBC Sounds

Stand-up from the Isle of Portland, Dorset: what makes the island so distinctive.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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