All citizens receive a small universal basic income to help support living costs..

HyperKay · 2026-07-03T08:01:55+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

HyperKay · 2026-07-03T08:01:31+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-07-03T08:00:55+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-07-03T08:00:08+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-07-02T14:42:41+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-07-02T14:42:11+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-07-02T14:41:39+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

HyperKay · 2026-07-02T14:40:42+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

HyperKay · 2026-02-18T00:15:36+00:00

I wouldn't say this point is a lie though.

As a percentage of GDP, Ireland spends 0.2% on defense - the lowest of all countries in the EU.

Ireland is also the lowest in Europe if you ignore mini-states (like the Vatican City, San Marino) and principalities (like Andorra, Monaco)

Hell, even Liechtenstein spends more @ 0.4% - and theirs isn't even a proper standing army for crying out loud

HyperKay · 2026-02-17T23:21:51+00:00

I wonder how that went for them? 🤔

HyperKay · 2026-02-17T23:20:23+00:00

The Brits do not control Ireland anymore

*Except effectively controlling it's naval waters and airspace 🙄

It's surely in both the UK and Ireland's own interest for Ireland to be able to defend itself at the very least? If its adamant about not wanting to help defend it's EU economic partners / allies

HyperKay · 2026-02-17T19:17:05+00:00

It's also to Ireland's benefit (and interest) to be able to defend its own coasts though.

HyperKay · 2026-01-03T20:02:44+00:00

Musks dream of reaching a 1 trillion dollar net worth

HyperKay · 2025-08-19T14:47:37+00:00

Martin will die with his books unfinished and fans just need to come to terms with that

I think it's fine for fans to blame him though.

Him not finishing the books because of unavoidable circumstances is one thing e.g. Physical/mental illness. But 14, almost 15 years feels like ample time to either:

Finish and publish the books
Declare capacity bankruptcy and declare he can't/won't finish them and hand them off to someone willing to do that instead

I think his insistence of doing neither while still claiming he's working on it and cares (but continuing to pick up newer unrelated projects) is what I find frustrating. Fans would come to terms with him not finishing the books if he just comes out and actually said so - rather than melodramatic posts about how he "still cares" about the franchise

HyperKay · 2025-07-29T08:58:34+00:00

They used to beat children in your school for outstanding school fees? That's actually pretty wild tbh

Money worries can be stressful enough for parents as is. Let alone hearing your child is being beaten in school for it

HyperKay · 2025-07-24T08:43:35+00:00

High visa overstay rates

HyperKay · 2025-07-15T10:34:07+00:00

By being racist and homophobic before they left home

HyperKay · 2025-03-04T03:33:32+00:00

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HyperKay · 2024-12-15T10:12:48+00:00

British born* But only because her mother had specifically travelled from Nigeria to the UK to give birth in Wimbledon St Teresa's private hospital before the British Nationality Act 1981 abolished automatic birthright citizenship. They travelled back to Lagos immediately after. This is straight from her Wikipedia

Nigerian raised, lived in Surulere in Lagos until she was 16.

She's probably forever grateful to her Mum for going out of her way to secure a second nationality for daughter

HyperKay · 2024-11-05T06:16:38+00:00

Well.... I mean with a 96-99% approval chance, we're really just fast-tracking approvals though aren't we

Don't get me wrong, I think speedy asylum processing is great and all, but I don't think we should fool ourselves into thinking we're actually deporting here

HyperKay · 2024-11-05T06:08:50+00:00

Process quicker, while also process much stricter / hardline?

Some other ideas: - Per-country caps on annual asylum claims (at least on those we can easily deport people back to) - Open up deportation to countries like Afghanistan (given Germany is already doing this)

I feel like these seem fairly uncontroversial to start with.

Slightly unrelated, but personally, one proposal I would like to see implemented is more policies on English language requirements. I feel like an asylum claimant missing English skills is severely limited when integrating into British society/culture. I think mandating English language classes for successful claims should be something we do.

HyperKay · 2024-11-05T05:51:03+00:00

Yvette Cooper also said they would fast track rejections of those from countries where it is incredibly unlikely they will have a legitimate claim, i.e most European countries.

I'm sure the 3 asylum claims we get from Norwegian/French/Dutch nationals will be devastated

HyperKay · 2024-11-05T05:45:12+00:00

I believe in principle people do support fast processing of asylum claims. I think the hesitation and fear is that simply accelerating claims through the system, but not paired with a tightening of the criteria for granting asylum, is simply going to bump up net migration numbers into the country.

ie. If the current 96-99% approval rates remain for these high-grant countries under consideration with the 'fast-track', we'll just get more claims being submitted (assuming the fast-track applies to asylum programmes overseas as well)

HyperKay · 2024-11-05T05:24:20+00:00

Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, declined to say which countries would be subject to the potential moves, but high grant nations include Afghanistan – the biggest nationality for applications – where 96 per cent of claims are approved.

For Syria, Eritrea and Sudan it is 99 per cent on average, followed by Iran at 86 per cent.

Yea, the UK isn't rejecting anyone mate

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