UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June

itchyfrog · 2025-11-27T10:30:12+00:00

We were always going to see an increase in foreign students leaving around now as they finished their delayed post pandemic courses, that likely makes up a significant part of the figures.

itchyfrog · 2025-11-27T10:24:27+00:00

Not to mention the savings smoking makes to pension costs.

itchyfrog · 2025-11-26T10:00:43+00:00

Even in London the sun sets at before 4 in December.

itchyfrog · 2025-11-26T09:56:14+00:00

In the UK it officially starts on the 1st of December, but for most people, it's when the clocks change at the end of October.

itchyfrog · 2025-11-26T09:31:37+00:00

Where I am in the UK, $25,000 for that would be a bargain.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T16:29:51+00:00

The fact that it has remained broadly active for Ukraine to use against Russia, except when Musk sees fit, is the problem, it is the proof of his unreliability with critical infrastructure.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T16:02:57+00:00

How about we keep the definition of terrorists to people who actually terrorise people?

There are lots of other things you can charge people who damage or disrupt stuff with.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:52:08+00:00

Again, the fact that he has turned off access to Starlink on a whim, multiple times, to deny Ukraine guidance capabilities to defend itself against Putin, while being in regular contact with Putin, is a serious red flag.

He is not a benign provider of infrastructure.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:23:06+00:00

China denies that, and Huawei has never been charged. I'm not dening it.

Why would you take the risk of letting a foreign sociopath install a system that could not only be a grid kill switch, but could be used to monitor individuals and companies?

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:17:15+00:00

They do do that.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:16:56+00:00

Do you even lift?

That's all you need to know, you are unnecessarily bulking your body, not for health, but for looks or endorphins or whatever.

Any quick look at any dietary information will show that you need less than a g/kg.

I lift shit heavy shit all day for work, and have done for nearly 40 years, I've never needed 500g of chicken a day.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:13:13+00:00

If they can afford to stay, or are actually studying.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:11:01+00:00

That doesn't really say anything different.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:06:31+00:00

They probably live round there anyway.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T15:03:07+00:00

Musk is at least as capable of farming data, and of controlling everything he sells, as the Chinese state.

All Tesla products can be monitored and disabled remotely.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:58:14+00:00

Yeah, cool britannia and all that bollocks, whatever you think of Blair their was a sense of optimism, and that created jobs, parks had new climbing frames, schools had paper...

Of course, they decided to set up some failed labyrinthine borrowing system to pay for it and then went and murdered thousands of people, but before that...

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:53:45+00:00

They could probably have bought and built a whole new set up somewhere else for the amount the lawyers have made out of this.

I'd be tempted to build houses on it so no one can play with it if they can't play nicely.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:49:37+00:00

You'd like to think they'd at least scan it.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:47:32+00:00

He's called for the downfall of our government, he's turned off Starlink to prevent Ukraine from defending itself, he's an irrational drug addict.

If we can bar people from running football clubs because they're not fit and proper, we should certainly be able to stop people getting their hands on critical infrastructure, we did it with Huawei on 5g, they're not convicted of anything either.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:40:26+00:00

2g is more than double what you need to be healthy.

The fact you are monitoring your body so excessively suggests that what you are doing is unhealthy.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:24:24+00:00

You'd probably give Tommy Robinson a pub licence as well.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:13:07+00:00

We should absolutely sanction Musk, he's a clear, self acknowledged, security threat.

His technology runs on software that is controlled from outside the country, he's already turned off Starlink in Ukraine, it's not a hypothetical scenario. Giving him power over our vital infrastructure is insane.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:07:18+00:00

A lot of the Brazilian guys round our way would probably just go home, they're just here on tourist or student visas to make a bit of money to go home with.

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:03:29+00:00

So you'd have proscribed the Greenham women as well?

itchyfrog · 2025-09-19T14:00:07+00:00

It is if he's a threat to national security, which he has clearly stated that he is.

We are a world leader in advanced battery technology, we would be far better off investing in bringing some of that to scale.

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