| Topic: Brutal knife attack in Belfast |
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| 101. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Wed 24th Jun 2026. 19:38 red-star-par, Wed 24 Jun 18:41 😂😂😂 Family ties👌 I don`t wanna go down like disco. Reply |
| 102. Author: P Date: Thu 25th Jun 2026. 03:34 NMCmassive, Tue 23 Jun 10:49 |
| 103. Author: Jimmy riddell Date: Thu 25th Jun 2026. 13:11 I can relate to that. Gillette stadium is not in Boston. It’s 24 miles from there and 18 miles from Providence. For the first game some of my family went by train from Boston. Cost $80 return. They arrived at South station five hours before kick off. There were thousands already queuing in front of them. It took the best part of an hour and a half in the heat and humidity to get on a train. There was one working toilet on the train! I travelled by car with pre booked parking near the stadium. There is only one direction on Route 1 that the police would allow access towards the stadium. If you were driving south on Route 1 you had to go a further 5 miles to the next intersection to travel north. All side roads were blocked. It took us an hour and a half in traffic to cover the last mile to our parking place. Then we all had to join the throng queuing to get through three gates to join another queue to go through airport security style screening. The whole experience was both chaotic and frustrating. Not good for young families or elderly people. Fortunately the experience at the second game was much better. Yes the stadiums are modern but the stands reach high into the sky so players look like dots. That’s why they have huge screens at both ends of the stadium. Makes watching from behind the goals at Hamdump a treat! Reply |
| 104. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 07:50 The car attack in London, the sexual assault in Oban, enrichment. I don`t wanna go down like disco. Reply |
| 105. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 17:27 Dandy Warhol, Mon 29 Jun 07:50 I`ll never tire of asking this - what checks are done on immigrants? Clearly it`s hard to process people who have "lost" their documents but why aren`t they held for observation and assessment to determine their mental health? It`s not like this is new. We`ve had various parties and even more PMs in power yet none seem to have resolved this obvious issue. Though worth highlighting that this is a minority of people but one incident is too many regardless of faith or ethnicity. Reply |
| 106. Author: hurricane_jimmy Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 19:57 Tbh, I think we`re getting to the point where we need to be like: "You`ve lost your documents?" Fingerprints, DNA test and banned for life for illegal entry and an agreement between all European states to fund the database and detention centres. "Don`t want to reveal your home state?" Life in an offshore detention centre or deportation to your home state, your call. I really get the sense in both Scotland and Sweden that people are sick of this whole situation and it`s really gonna create societal issues if there isn`t a proper crackdown. Sweden has seriously tightened up its citizenship requirements - when I naturalized I didn`t have to do a Swedish language test (although I had taken the national Gymnasium/High School exam and passed) which I thought was an absolute joke - and there seems to be a net decline in the "refugee" population and asylum applications. Denmark has seen the same and I reckon Finland and Norway will follow suit. A lot of focus on Somalis in Finland atm and the cost - was something like it takes 238 Finnish working years on average (i.e. the net economic contribution to the Finnish economy of 1 Finn year ca. €4k) to fund a lifetime`s benefits for one Somali - the figure was like €950k. Just nuts. As an aside, as a Swedish Citizen, I can legally move to any other Nordic Union state and ask for citizenship after 2 years of residence there, no strings attached. I`m wondering if there will be a crackdown on that considering the disparity in the numbers of migrants between Sweden and the other NU states. Post Edited (Mon 29 Jun 19:58) Reply |
| 107. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 22:16 Where would an offshore processing plant be? I can`t imagine any of the UK islands agreeing to that. Plus what would be considered legit ID? Could it simply switch to traffickers moving into illegal papers? Reply |
| 108. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 23:19 Yeah genuinely, we’ve got to take a hard line on illegal immigration. Denmark went one way and seems to be getting a lot of things right whereas Sweden went the other and has managed to get itself wrapped up in an ongoing gang/drug war. We’re lucky that’s not arrived here. If they can’t get in legally, they can’t get in would be my policy. There’s usually reasons they can’t get in legally. Tories botched the Rwanda’s thing. They didn’t have the proper infrastructure and legal system in place. They shot themselves in the foot and looked foolish in the process. COYP Reply |
| 109. Author: hurricane_jimmy Date: Mon 29th Jun 2026. 23:51 Anything that states legal nationality would be considered legal ID, but most likely passport. Very difficult to properly so a fraudulent passport these days from what I gather. In terms of detention centres, there is probably somewhere in the collective European territories with the seabed at a level where you could create an artificial island a-la Kansai or Hong Kong Airport. Create it as a collective European project with each country responsible for a portion of the construction and maintenance costs. (I can see the Poles objecting to this though as they haven`t let any in in the first place!) Use the crappy Chinese kit buildings to keep the costs down and conditions to the point where it actually acts as a deterrent. Could even have a rotating military deployment to staff the thing. Just an idea, but can imagine it would be feasible with enough collective will from European states. Pretty sure the Danes actually did something like this fairly recently, but I could be wrong. Post Edited (Mon 29 Jun 23:53) Reply |
| 110. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 30th Jun 2026. 16:05 But what happens if the person has come from a war torn country where their passport and records have been legitimately destroyed? Reply |
| 111. Author: NMCmassive Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 01:20 jake89, Tue 30 Jun 16:05 But but but… there’s always a but… They always come from war torn countries or are gay or are only children/u18 etc etc etc They always give an excuse for why they can’t be rejected. Let’s not forget that the likelihood is they’ve traveled past if not through Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. None of which are war torn… COYP Reply |
| 112. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 08:23 English tends to be a more universal language though. People certainly aren`t coming here for a quality of life! So what happens if I throw away all my ID and stowaway on a boat to Amsterdam? How do they identify me? Even if I can be identified, how do they know if I`m a risk to the public or not? We might keep thorough records in the UK, but I can`t imagine Iran is keeping tabs of people in that way. Not publicly anyway. It would need to be a case of "No ID? You`ll be kept under observation until we determine who you are and that you are of no risk." Reply |
| 113. Author: NMCmassive Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 09:04 Just more excuses to allow organised crime. It’s totally irresponsible not to have a strong border because it does fuel organised crime. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore either, Turkish barbers, vape shops, kebab/takeaways etc. We are doing a disservice to people that run those types of businesses legitimately by allowing that to happen. COYP Reply |
| 114. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 11:27 It`s not an excuse, it`s basic facts. It`s why the approach to processing needs reviewed. Would you let some random you don`t know anything about take a job at your company or babysit your kids? Of course not. So why do we take someone`s word that they`re 14 and are of sound mind? The barbers etc are an obvious front for money laundering but nothing is done by the government. Why? Reply |
| 115. Author: ipswichpar Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 11:47 I often think journalists have a big part of play in the amount of political issues we have. In the same way I feel the same about lawyers and justice. I suspect the police aren`t looking into a lot of this now as it would just lead to long legal cases that would probably be lost. And the change in policing to stop walking the beat. I think Channel 4 and BBC News teams are probably doing more on the investigative fronts..... or at least l, that`s what it feels like. Reply |
| 116. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 12:23 jake89, Tue 30 Jun 16:05 They`ll have crossed many safe countries to get here, send them to one of those. I don`t wanna go down like disco. Reply |
| 117. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 12:25 Serious question to the "it isn`t all of them" crew, would you wave those virtues in the face of a rape victim or their family? What would you say? Imagine living in a country where voicing concern is treated as racism. So glad i`m out of here. I don`t wanna go down like disco. Reply |
| 118. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 12:53 It`s interesting that there isn`t the same outrage to returning "soldiers" from a war torn country living in our midst, after committing genocide?🤔 Reply |
| 119. Author: ipswichpar Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 13:24 Dandy Warhol, Wed 1 Jul 12:23 And yet they have a better percentage chance of getting their application approved here than those other countries. Taking us out of Europe has definitely not helped. Not that Five Mil Nige is accountable for any of the mess he has made. It is bonkers. Reply |
| 120. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Wed 1st Jul 2026. 14:07 LochgellyAlbert, Wed 1 Jul 12:53 Because you`re not allowed to complain about Israeli rapists and murderers. I don`t wanna go down like disco. Post Edited (Wed 01 Jul 15:26) Reply |