BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

I definitely do not have a good enough knowledge of the sector to articulate the solution, but I think you should explain why universities are now failing. Is it because domestic students simply do not pay enough? If so, then that seems like a decent argument to increase the contribution per student. Is it because international students don't come as much? If so, then that is less straight-forward, because there needs to be an understanding why and whether fixing it will break something else. Is it because some universities simply don't appeal/ are not good enough and there is a reducing number of kids willing to be saddled with debt (note child population is decreasing from what is around year 8 I think)? If so, then the solution is not more money, it is something else, because those universities have failed, and I would be willing to consider offers. If Meta want to fund a degree in stalking/radicalising/spying then is that so bad? OK, other options could be considered.

Neither do I have a good enough knowledge to know what the sensible way forward is. That's Government's job to devise a plan, building on the successes, and seeing what's not working. Not just to let chunks go bust because it doesn't know what's really going on. The problem is that it should have been done some time ago, as things are moving very quickly at the moment, as the evidence from places such as Nottingham shows (it's much more dramatic than the Exeter situation).

 

[Stevo 666]

How many countries are able to completely protect a border? I wouldn't say the US is soft on immigration but plenty of people manage it (2.8 million in 2024). It's particularly difficult if the border agency of the country they are leaving is actively encouraging them.

According to reports 70,000 of the 72,000 have been returned.

Not sure, but Spain seems to be pretty easy to enter illegally and the country has other pull factors such as the possibility of further mass legalisation of illegal migrants which will mean that this sort of issue will continue. It's already causing problems with Schengen and I reckon it will only get worse.

 

[Stevo 666]

What - you mean send them back to Morocco?
Isn't that what they did?

What's your proposal? A 60,000 place prison in Ceuta for people duped by their Govt?

Re-read what I posted above, its pretty clear. Clearly repatriation is part of the solution for those that persist, but it's better if they don't come in the first place.

 

[Stevo 666]

Must be true. It's in the Telegraph.

Don't you think it's a bit weird that the only places reporting this are GB News and The Telegraph? It appears that the source of the information is Laura LRies at the Heritage Foundation, a US think tank pushing Project 2025.

It's almost as if there is some sort of agenda here...

I don't care if you don't like where it was reported, as I've said before. Try rebutting what the article - if you can.