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Waiting for the yokels to put 2 and z2−4z+4+2i=0 together and realise that I've just come from that there "scary" London (about 14 years ago).

We don’t have very clever politicians at the moment, I have no idea what’s gone wrong with them

Yep, just idiotic. Any failing university should rebrand itself as a steel mill. Govt will be all over it.

Well I like that Brexit tale of being better outside the EU - by paying the EU £50 billion of taxpayers money, in order to make ourselves poorer. What a hoot.

Even sickos.jpg ain't looking in this window, I assert confidently while the feeling grows that I'm being watched.

I'm no immigration expert, but I do recruit occasionally from overseas and my understanding is that you need a valid work VISA to enter the UK to work (& you need a sponsor and a job), so the latter part of your comment makes no sense to me.

In 2025 "813,000 people migrated into the UK and 642,000 emigrated from it, resulting in net migration of 171,000." This kind of movement is bound to be disruptive, losing trained people and getting untrained folks. Chart shows flows both ways are huge. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

yes. Some more recent stuff here migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co... www.iza.org/publications...

Oh, that I agree with. I guess my point is our taxes are too low to provide that all-you-can-eat public service offer. So tax rises are necessary but only ever go towards firefighting, rather than really securing the public realm. Palpable sense of decline.

Plus: www.ft.com/content/655a...

It's worked very well so far, innit? bsky.app/profile/chro...

You’re the Home Secretary and/or the last Sec of State for Education! Never knew that before.

They don't want an educated population. That's the bottom line. They want a pliant & desperate workforce, a cowed population that knows it's place. Skills & knowledge can be bought in, & then returned. Rich get richer. Poor tug their cap.

How does this country keep giving into its worst instincts when the results are always the same? Are we never going to learn that pandering to anti-immigration sentiment not only doesn't work it's completely self-defeating? 8% of GDP for a small boat crisis and the joke of points based immigration

WWWARP Urgent message - don't let a functioning university sector be your fault