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True. But they do pay a contribution towards the cost of bringing the prosecution.

Sorry, but unless this is a late April Fool's joke, I just don't see the point. The clue is in the name - a steam locomotive. You need coal and water and you get heat, steam, smoke and a particular blend of noises. If you're simply going to fill a tender with batteries and traction motors...

Already explained (post #8,132). My response was to this: I took that at face value as I didn't know what Lord Cameron actually said. Investigating further, I found this in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/24/leaving-echr-small-boat-crossings-lord-cameron/ It seems what...

Well, the ridiculous Rwanda scheme is said to be required to "stop the boats". With Lord Cameron's contention that it would not be needed if we were EU members, it seems to suggest there would be no small boats if we were EU members. That simply doesn't hold water. As far as I recall, the UK...

So what? That wasn't what was claimed. This was the claim: It mentioned nothing about percentages. My conclusion is that the UK has had to accommodate about three times as many EU citizens as the EU has UK citizens, in about one twentieth of the area. If you want to introduce another...

Yes the issue is that they should never have been subsumed into "London" in the first place. There are huge swathes of the outer London boroughs similar to the one I illustrated. These are rural areas, many comprising open farmland. They have next to no TfL services, gain nothing from the GLA...

How would the UK being an EU member stem the flow of small boats? That may be his thoughts (especially bearing in mind his statement on the steps of No 10 on the morning of 24th June 2016). But once again, how would the UK remaining in the EU have stemmed the flow of small boats? Are you...

Shepherds Bush seems to have disappeared from the Central Line. It only appears on the Overground. I'm sure this was not a problem yesterday because I completed all 268 tube stations (yes I know, I should get out more - but it's too bloody cold!).

Excellent! I'll start again. I was doing just the London Underground. I'd got up to just over 200 without error. Up came Stonebridge Park. I'd already identified Maida Vale so I simply counted six stops up from there (without taking any notice of the map itself) to find I was wrong! :'( I...

Thanks for that. The usual nebulous bluster from the UN. The problem with their edict is that individuals are not subject to whatever "international law" they have in mind. Of course people in the UK are subject to domestic law and if, for example, there were allegations of slavery (which is...

Indeed not. In any case that was not the claim, which only spoke of absolute numbers.

Where is that stated? Under what legislation might they be prosecuted and in which court?

I have no particular view of the Australian scheme. I'm merely intrigued to understand how the UK "capturing" and "holding against their will" people who arrive without leave in small boats is considered contrary to "international law" (so much so that it is suggested that other countries may...

Some good points which somewhat demolish my rash plan to castrate the HoC :D But before I roll over completely, what about adding the three devolved assemblies into the mix?

I think you have a station missing - Queens Park on the Bakerloo Line.

Which "International law" would this be that would have been broken? Australia operated an offshore migrant processing system on and off since the beginning of this century. The people there were "captured" and "held against their will" before being transported to Papua New Guinea and Naunu (and...

I think not. In 2019 around 1.3m people born in the UK were said to live in EU countries: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/how-many-british-citizens-live-in-the-eu/ "In 2019, according to UN data, 1.3 million people born in the UK lived in EU countries. Spain hosted the largest group, at...

I wasn't actually basing it on that. My point (not properly made) was that 400 or so MPs should be more than an adequate number for an electorate of about 47m (one MP per c.117,000 voters). After all, the US manages with about that number in the HoR with an electorate five times the size.

It's a very good idea for the UK to kindly allow people whom are no longer wanted and who may cost the Exchequer a bit of money, to head off to die somewhere else. But it's not such a good idea for the recipient nations who have had no benefit from any taxes those people may have paid but who...

Thus adding another reason why FoM is not, perhaps, such a good idea.