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Originally posted by original PM View PostFor today's quiz - which of the two photos below shows the best border control?
Most illegal migrants fly in on a plane with a visa valid or otherwise. The UK had 40 million visitors last year.
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostDo you think that illegal migrants don't use boats ?
Most illegal migrants fly in on a plane with a visa valid or otherwise. The UK had 2 million foreign visitors last year.
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostIndividual cross border movement is largely irrelevant to this thread. Is is about goods.
Smuggling on boats is big business.
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostLooking at the terrain in the first photo I would have thought that actually the border in the second photo would be easier to smuggle goods through.
Smuggling on boats is big business.
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Originally posted by original PM View PostFor today's quiz - which of the two photos below shows the best border control?Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostWell in Northern Ireland there looks to be support for unification.
New poll suggests majority in Northern Ireland want a United Ireland after Brexit
I think a no deal Brexit will increase the chances significantly.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostThe new Democratic led US congress might be pressuring the UK, by blocking a UK-US trade deal in the event of a no deal Brexit.
Irish-American congressman intervenes on Brexit
Looks like the N.Korea option is the way out of this.
So ironic that Brexiters argue that by leaving the EU we can negotiate all these FTA's, but those we want to do deals with don't trust us anymore
Just a matter of time now when, and not if, this Tory government will collapseLast edited by Whorty; 1 February 2019, 12:45.I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostDo you think that illegal migrants don't use boats ?
Most illegal migrants fly in on a plane with a visa valid or otherwise. The UK had 40 million visitors last year.
or i'll drop you on a beach and say swim 20 miles that way to freedom
there is a good chance you will do one and not the other.
However that was not the point I was making - the point is the EU allows freedom of movement of people because it is absolutely impossible to stop it in mainland Europe so they wrote it into the laws (whatever) where as it's is clearly not as easy to get to the UK from France as it is to get to Germany from France.
But y'know....Comment
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Originally posted by meridian View PostHow is this at all relevant? Which one are you driving a truck through?I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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