It sounds very similar to the system we have in place for non-EU migrants now.RuleBritannia wrote:Now, it might be my lack of sleep, but doesn't a "cap" have to be fixed? If it moves around it's not really a cap is it? It's just a fancy way of saying how many people came in for that time period.
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Been listening to David "call me Dave" Cameron again. He says he believes in the United Kingdom, that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are stronger together as one nation. Yet at the same time he doesn't believe in the European Union, he wants Britain be in Europe but not controlled by it. That seems to be the same stance as the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, who want to control their own affairs but still trade and cooperate with England. I can't see how the Tories can reconcile those cantradicting viewpoints, and I really want to find Cameron and ask him.
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the events of yesterday have made this election of whole lot more interesting.. what's your bet that tonight's debate gets pretty good audience figures?
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BBC One gets about 20% of the audience share anyway so I always thought this debate would get the biggest figures, I think it could be as high as 15 million which would be well over 40% of the TV audience.Elessarina wrote:the events of yesterday have made this election of whole lot more interesting.. what's your bet that tonight's debate gets pretty good audience figures?
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I felt greatly heartened by Brown's misery with yesterdays "misunderstanding"- and is he not the owner of the world's least sincere smile?
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We've had quite sufficient whinging Poms, thank you...Clinton Huxley wrote:He should never have apologised to that ghastly woman, he should have loudly and publicly damned her eyes and then had her transported to the foulest swamp in the Antipodes.
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Given the UKs enormous debt, we may have to consider selling Australia to a Russian billionaire.
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Some election posters made by readers of the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/ ... =361972079
Some of them are rather good.
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Clinton Huxley wrote:Given the UKs enormous debt, we may have to consider selling Australia to a Russian billionaire.
You might try, but you forget nobody wants to buy a country where everything is capable of killing you.
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born-again-atheist wrote:Clinton Huxley wrote:Given the UKs enormous debt, we may have to consider selling Australia to a Russian billionaire.
You might try, but you forget nobody wants to buy a country where everything is capable of killing you.
Nobody, except, perhaps, a super villain?
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Clinton Huxley wrote:born-again-atheist wrote:Clinton Huxley wrote:Given the UKs enormous debt, we may have to consider selling Australia to a Russian billionaire.
You might try, but you forget nobody wants to buy a country where everything is capable of killing you.
Nobody, except, perhaps, a super villain?
They tend not to last very long, Irony runs high in England's only successful export.
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Anyone gonna watch the last debate?
I keep wondering if anyone will actually mention the elephant in the room. The fucking enormous debt. I heard a snippet on the radio earlier - someone saying whoever wins will lose the next election and won't get back in for a generation cos of the fucking great axe they are going to have to wield.
I keep wondering if anyone will actually mention the elephant in the room. The fucking enormous debt. I heard a snippet on the radio earlier - someone saying whoever wins will lose the next election and won't get back in for a generation cos of the fucking great axe they are going to have to wield.
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I'm leaning on the side of no. I just can't be arsed listening to any more platitudinous bullshit.Rum wrote:Anyone gonna watch the last debate?
I keep wondering if anyone will actually mention the elephant in the room. The fucking enormous debt. I heard a snippet on the radio earlier - someone saying whoever wins will lose the next election and won't get back in for a generation cos of the fucking great axe they are going to have to wield.
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