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Isn't it just another more modern form of colonial exploitation of poorer countries? 'Let's economise on the costs of training UK doctors and import them from Ghana, Nigeria and the Congo/ They can pay the costs of training our new crop of doctors,' Rubs hands and fingers a pile of bank notes.

What? You think pillaging African specialists from impoverished economies is a good thing? You're more comfortable with that and the neglect in training British talent.

This tragic situation is the result I am ashamed to say (since I voted for them) of the policies of the previous series of governments. They took the view that it was cheaper to import ready trained professionals than to train them here. This is a pretty diabolical policy for various reasons...

I have no interest whatsoever in the MAGA movement, though it may have some features which align with the discontent fuelling support for Reform (which again - I do not support). What I am interested in is that UK government policy actively engages with the problems of the people around me...

Dublin Agreement. We absorb what in my view, are FAR too many, given our problems in providing a home for all of our present, vastly over dense population. When i can walk into the centre of Newcastle any day and find homeless men of respectable character sitting in sleeping bags in shop...

How far back do you want to go? Should I demand compensation from Italy because I am 'triggered' by living a mile from Hadrian's Wall? None of us invaded the colonies. I see you are one of those people who are constantly denouncing our nation's 'shameful past'. I don't do that. It wasn't me...

It is very simple. Anyone who lands on a beach or stows away in the back of a truck to enter the UK should immediately be deported. If the country they embarked from or the country they originated from refuses to cooperate, we have several overseas territories where they can be sent and...

First sentence : Absolute nonsense - as usual. Northumberland (pop 320,000) had a local council which was Conservative until the last election. It is now in a position of no overall control with Reform. It was Conservative for a very long time. Newcastle upon Tyne (pop 300,000) has been...

Who knew? Labour peers Lord Blunkett, Lord Glasman and Labour MP Graham Stringer are also fascists and far right extremists!!! Or is it just that the people who consider it right and proper and humane to allow thousands of deliberately undocumented law breakers to swarm into the country, are...

My grandfather always spoke of them that way. At one time he had an 'accumulator' powered radio, and every now and then, he took his accumulator to the wireless shop and had it recharged and topped up with acid. I can remember the shop was still there when i was a small boy. It had a grumpy old...

The sad thing is that if so many had not been riding dangerously, blatantly ignoring the law on e-bike standards, causing nuisance and harm to others, none of these campaigns by police would be happening. We would be riding along happily, minding our own business and not getting concerned about...

God help the riders if it got up to any kind of speed.

Everything about that franken-bike is wrong. I expect it would crash inside two miles unless ridden extremely slowly. I can hardly imagine how difficult it would be to keep it going where it was supposed to be going. Why would anyone make something like that, and why would anyone buy it? What...

Fk me! Within42 seconds, the presenter makes his first statement about fascism. It is grotesquely false. An absolute error of fact. "To date there have only been two governments which have uncontroversially, remotely been considered as fascist. And those are the governments of Germany and...

The abuse of our asylum rules is absolutely unravelling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3e221qgeeo I have my French niece staying with me right now. We have been ebiking, walking and exploring the remoter parts of Northumberland. We spoke yesterday about what I described as the...

STUPID, Stupid comparison. Italian fascism from its very beginning, just like Nazism was founded on state promoted violence and oppression of opposition parties. Mussolini set up gangs of thugs to go around murdering opponents. This is a characteristic which separates fascism from the...

I didn't say anywhere that we didn't need human rights law. We already had human rights law, a very long time before the 1998 act. I made it perfectly clear that we have had it for generations, while most of Europe was under fascist or communist, murderous dictatorship. I objected to the...

In so many ways, considerate riding would have prevented a rise in unnecessary and unpleasant interactions with police and the public in regard to shared paths and resources. The same is true of checks on electric bikes. Common sense would have left us much freer from intervention by law...

You must have a better seat than I do, or a tougher backside. I can remember hitting 125 miles in a day on a trip from Cheltenham to Newcastle along old Roman roads like the Fosseway and Ermine Street, but I was a bit saddle sore. That was on a Dawes Galaxy tourer. In present times, on my...

Watch this from Minute 3:30 - What is wrong with the ECHR? Absolute common sense. The Human Rights Act 1998 made by Blair & Co subjugates British Law and the British Parliament to the actions of a foreign court. This treacherous, appalling state of affairs makes the UK a supplicant...