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I agree but the Albanian ambassador is quite right, UK should have an official channel that people can use to apply.
We should rejoin the Dublin accords though. That will sp;ve the problem right away.
There is a legal way its called the UKVI..
United Kingdom Visa & Immigration

And the Dublin accords are supposed to determine which EUSSR country processes an immigration application. UK is Not in das soviet comrade ;-)

The accords say its the First country they come to, which is Not UK and Not Ireland either.

You may remember the case of the two that illegally entered the UK on Three occasions each. Being deported twice, back a 3rd time, one videoing himself driving around London in a Rolls Royce.

Keep trying
Have a look and see if he got Legal Aid! Mm?
 
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"Do only half the work at twice the cost"
Zero value for money, is the only zero they have!
"Only buy IF massive gov (Taxpayers) subsidy got".

 
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"Do only half the work at twice the cost"
Zero value for money, is the only zero they have!
"Only buy IF massive gov (Taxpayers) subsidy got".

They were first baby steps. Electric buses are just about workable technology now.
 

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They were first baby steps. Electric buses are just about workable technology now.
Just One Council spends £8.7M of the publics money on junk Bin Lorries (not buses). How much across the country?. Pitiful baby steps for the money. Tell you what, if greenies really believed in these, why don't they sponsor them out of their own pockets? No, why not, oh yes, coz they know they're junk! Cheers :)
 

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Just One Council spends £8.7M of the publics money on junk Bin Lorries (not buses). How much across the country?. Pitiful baby steps for the money. Tell you what, if greenies really believed in these, why don't they sponsor them out of their own pockets? No, why not, oh yes, coz they know they're junk! Cheers :)
Cleverer people than me made those plans. I am sure they know their numbers. Even I know that burning fossil fuels makes our air unbreathable on our congested roads. A lot of people die of lung diseases well before their time. As for the rest, breathing diesel fumes shorten your life. There is a pent up demand to get rid of diesel buses and lorries as soon as possible. It's a no brainer for city dwellers. As most of us live in cities, that is the majority. The push for cleaner air is an absolute priority. Btw, even diesel bin lorries are fairly expensive.
 
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Cleverer people than me made those plans. I am sure they know their numbers. Even I know that burning fossil fuels makes our air unbreathable on our congested roads. A lot of people die of lung diseases well before their time. As for the rest, breathing diesel fumes shorten your life. There is a pent up demand to get rid of diesel buses and lorries as soon as possible. It's a no brainer for city dwellers. As most of us live in cities, that is the majority. The push for cleaner air is an absolute priority. Btw, even diesel bin lorries are fairly expensive.
"Cleverer people", don't you believe it
"Burning legacy fuel makes our air unbreathable"
Then how are you breathing in Southend now?
So air is good apart from the "dangerous" pollution in the Underground. Is khant cleaning that up, no, why not?

More young people die from violence "before their time" in UK, than air pollution.

"Pent up demand to get rid of diesel buses". Only in minds of greenies and gov. Everyone else is fine with them. 35,000 buses in UK, 97% Diesel, but when there are no new ones you may have to walk!

"Most people live in cities". And the people outside cities? Oh dear, looking very Urbo-centric there. Us yokels count too. ;-)
Air is already cleaner, except Underground, when will that be clean?
Leccy bin lorries cost Twice as much as Diesel, and do Half the work, its a "no-brainer".
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"Most people live in cities". And the people outside cities? Oh dear, looking very Urbo-centric there. Us yokels count too.
I neither know nor care about where you live. I care about where I live, England, where 86% live in Towns and Cities, just 14% in villages or isolation. So proportionally, those yokels don't count enough to counter by far the best policy for the great majority.

Air is already cleaner, except Underground, when will that be clean?
Irrelevance, not the major problem and affecting only a small minority, plus the fact that underground travel is optional. No-one is forced into employment that necessitates undergound travel as the only option. In 63 years living in London as an adult, much of it working centrally, I've never commuted in the underground.

Leccy bin lorries cost Twice as much as Diesel, and do Half the work, its a "no-brainer".
Only to those who don't have the brains to see the urgent priority, which is to drastically reduce city street exhaust pollution. That diesel lorries are both cheaper and more efficient is once again a total irrelevance, when they not only don't solve the problem, they make it far worse, and much worse than any other type of diesel lorry.
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"Burning legacy fuel makes our air unbreathable"
Then how are you breathing in Southend now?
We lived in London for a while when I first came to the UK. The air was already unbreatheable compared to France. That's why we moved to Southend. The air here is about 3 times cleaner than in London.
 

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I neither know nor care about where you live. I care about where I live, England, where 86% live in Towns and Cities, just 14% in villages or isolation. So proportionally, those yokels don't count enough to counter by far the best policy for the great majority.



Irrelevance, not the major problem and affecting only a small minority, plus the fact that underground travel is optional. No-one is forced into employment that necessitates undergound travel as the only option. In 63 years living in London as an adult, much of it working centrally, I've never commuted in the underground.



Only to those who don't have the brains to see the urgent priority, which is to drastically reduce city street exhaust pollution. That diesel lorries are both cheaper and more efficient is once again a total irrelevance, when they not only don't solve the problem, they make it far worse, and much worse than any other type of diesel lorry.
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You keep contradicting yourself, the facts and basic logic..

So those who have to commute underground are the Morloks and should also be disregarded, like the Muggle yokels, and only the city elite count?

City Street air quality has been proven to be already "Good" by independent monitoring.

To say "diesel lorries are both cheaper and more efficient is..an irrelevance " and then "much worse than any other type of diesel lorry" is both illogical and nonsensical.
Did you mean something else?

The 14% of yokels outside metropolitan areas do count just as much as the "great majority". UK doesn't have a demokrazy, it has a Constitutional Parliamentary Monarchy (whatever that is, hehe :) )
 
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We lived in London for a while when I first came to the UK. The air was already unbreatheable compared to France. That's why we moved to Southend. The air here is about 3 times cleaner than in London.
If the air was "unbreathable" you would have been unalive. Pls try to stay logical and avoid hyperbole.

So Southend is "3 times cleaner" than the 19 quoted, namely AQI 6 ? Do you have a meter to confirm this?
By the way, it's 19, same than London!
Bear in mind you have a burning landfill in Rainham!
Is it still burning? You may be downwind. July 2025


 
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This one says AQI Southend is Low at 3!
Which way round does it go?
is low number, low pollution, yes?

This one says 26, Fair
What's going on?

Back to 3, what?!
 

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So Southend is "3 times cleaner" than the 19 quoted, namely AQI 6 ? Do you have a meter to confirm this?
By the way, it's 19, same than London!
Ask any Londoner, see how many agree that pollution is the same in London and Southend.
 

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You keep contradicting yourself, the facts and basic logic..
Wrong, try to get your brain working before commenting.

City Street air quality has been proven to be already "Good" by independent monitoring.
It's certainly very much better than in the old days of lethal smog, but nothing like good enough yet, as our epidemic of asthma shows. Sometimes lethal to the young, it's far too early to be complacent about past improvements.

To say "diesel lorries are both cheaper and more efficient is..an irrelevance " and then "much worse than any other type of diesel lorry" is both illogical and nonsensical.
Wrong. Diesel efficiency IS an irrelevance when diesel usage compounds the problem we are trying to solve as our FIRST priority. And diesel refuse lorries ARE much worse polluting than those driving through briefly or switched off while delivering, simply because they run continuously to power regularly compressing their load and raising and lowering the bins even during their substantial periods stationary. At least know a subject before passing judgement..

The 14% of yokels outside metropolitan areas do count just as much as the "great majority". UK doesn't have a demokrazy,
Wrong. The UK and the British parliament claim to be operationally a democracy, making their decisions on the basis of majorities. So the 14% absolutely do not count against the 86% when a decision is directly contradictory. Remember Brexit when the margin was barely 4%, but still large enough to carry the vote?
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Go to Vietnam with a beard and you may be held up at immigration as a "Risk", per Agenda 2045 Great Reset?
86 million bank accounts deleted..
Get your Biometrics ready digital comrades, all hail big brother says die partei für arbeit (satirical) :)
 

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"The signage is Unlawful, but TFL are being allowed to continue being unlawful, and the righteous challenger has to pay the court costs", What?
That's like a robber saying it would cost him too much to give the money back, and court says keep it!
Demo-krazi at its core :)
 

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