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The lesson is.. dont report it
Yeah if there is no proof that you transported the kid, why report it. Its not like he did it on accident, just pretend you didnt see anything.
Anyway the point is he didn't come in on a small boat, and it's the small boats that are apparently the problem. So this kid is fine.
Reminds me of an old news story where a guy found a gun on the street, picked it up, went straight to the police station and handed it in. Was fined thousands for "possession of an illegal firearm". The law was pretty cut and dry... there's literally no exemptions for having an illegal gun on your person. But still struck me as shockingly unfair
You should watch Gary Stevenson on YouTube. The problem is wealth going to the rich. Immigration is the ruse.
Want really pushes Reforms power is believing that immigrants in some way make it harder for you to find a job. Of course they don't, that's bullshit. Companies like Tesco's are not allowed to hire people who aren't documented, and the thing is, they don't. Literally no one ever has lost their job because a company hired an immigrant at bargain in basement wages, it doesn't happen.
You just believe it happens because you believe Nigel.
If you were going to berate people you really should look up what you're talking about.
Also
What on Earth does that mean?
One of Reform's most committed voting bloc is pensioners, who aren't competing with anyone for jobs. Instead they're down the pub, nursing their half-pints and having a whinge about the travellers, the South Asians who are smarter and work harder than them, the West Indians, and everyone else but themselves. They're my age (I'm nearly 70), and I can't stand the miserable bastards.
Yeah bollocks. Immigration has nothing to do with lack of low skilled jobs.
Exported labour is the huge cost. The UK simply not making thing in the UK. Immigration is nothing but distraction.
The whole argument that less available staff increases wages collapse when other nations have lower cost labour.
All reducing staff dose is make the UK as a whole less competitive cost wise. And move even more low skilled jobs to other cheaper nations.
The immigration debate is nothing but a wealthy business owners tactic to stop voters recognising the real problem.
An ironic statement from somebody who is so goddamn stupid but they believe right-wing talking points and then claim I don't like right-wing retric, despite clearly slurping it up.
Immigrants didn’t do that to us, Nige. Look it up.
I'm sure Farage knows it's a lie. I don't think he believes his own bullshit the same way that Trump does. Farage is a cynical, manipulative weasel, not a bellowing idiot.