benjreroberts.bsky.social
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Clearly you didn't answer the door when they knocked/rang and therefore tried a neighbour who accepted it on your behalf.
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It's not an unjust law, it was introduced by a democratically elected Government.
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Yes,completely fine, as was she when she pleaded guilty knowing it involved a custodial sentence. The appeal wasn't brought to repeal her guilt, but to reduce the sentence period
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She broke the law and pleaded guilty to it, end of story.
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Nothing sinister about it, in line with sentencing guidelines.
Are the sentencing guidelines too harsh, possibly, but that is for the Sentencing Council to determine and won't affect those already convicted.
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Just to clarify for us none lawyers, did the judge have any discretion to not jail her?
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Read the summary of the appeal judgement
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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The Economist estimates a £100bn shortfall.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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£100 billion
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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You need coking plants to convert coke to coal we no longer have any.
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That flip side will be there are no coking plants left in the UK to convert coal to coke.
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Why don't they first align tax rates on income from wealth with income tax i e. capital gains and dividend income?
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Is it really strategically important?
No where on the internet can I find UK companies demanding it be saved to secure their future, or a definitive answer to what can only be done with virgin steel.
We have electric arc furnaces supplying aerospace, defence, and nuclear.
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Seems to be a political reaction to the geo-political situation and local politics i.e. Reform rather than a strategic commercial / national security decision.
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3) We have EAF at Liberty Steel, Forgemasters and soon Tata. The existing ones are supplying quality steel for aerospace, defence and nuclear.
4) What is the definitive volume that has to come from virgin steel? The rest of the plant has to compete globally.
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I am struggling to find any commercial or national security basis for saving Scunthorpe.
1) Closure of the blast furnaces at both Scunthorpe and Port Talbot was always planned, all that has changed is not introducing new electric arc furnaces (EAF).
2) There is 5x over capacity within Europe.
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No, it is about providing a deterrent for those with no valid claim that think claiming asylum will allow them to stay in the country anyway.
It is not a solution to the global issue of immigration, but there needs to be an effective mechanism to remove those with no right to asylum
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Agree it will be costly, but surely there needs to be a deterrent for the minority of failed asylum seekers that thought they could game the system?
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There is no comparison with Rwanda, it is about failed asylum seekers.
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The responses here demonstrate the utter ignorance of the asylum system on both the left and right of British politics.
This has no comparison to Rwanda, it is for FAILED asylum seekers, they will have been through due process and have no right to stay in the UK
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This is about failed asylum seekers, those that have no right to asylum.
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This is about failed asylum seekers, not those applying.
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Nothing like the Tories, the Rwanda scheme was battered shit crazy, cost a fortune and broke our obligations under international law
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Nothing like it
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The published £1.6bn order for LMM's with Thales sees the unit price increase by 28% compared with Sep 2024!
If all are to be delivered in 2025 then it requires doubling of production and will incur significant fixed costs, but seems very high
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Yes they are LMM's and they are not a substitute for Patriot, but more cost effective against drones and glide bombs.
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It was a manifesto commitment.
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Yes, so you keep posting.
The reality is they agreed to maintain international development at 0.7% of GDP 2 days ago.
If the circumstances require it then the rules will be broken and the majority of the country will support it.
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The meetings on Sunday are going to be critical, time for all willing European countries to step up and agree to take the pain.
Time also to divert defence expenditure to none US sources.
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Great to have a positive speech about real changes that will affect us all positively.
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You mean there are 226 farms liable to IHT if they do no proactive succession and tax planning.
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It has been achieved in the past, 8 years from 1964-1971 exceeded 370,000 per annum.
The landbank for 2/3's of the target is already in place.
The constraints will be labour, planning and finance.
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There are two main issues in farming, supply chain economics and lack of succession planning.
The previous IHT regime exacerbated the latter by absolving any responsibility to plan. IHT is not an issue for genuine farms if they plan for succession.
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No more than other traffic and moving over when able to.
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They are moving and at the moment the right side of legitimate protest, there is no two tier justice.
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It's worse than that, it is £3m if they do nothing about succession planning and mitigating any tax liability.
The changes should benefit younger farmers.
Complete comms failure by the Government.