BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[icowden]

Who manufactures an inflatable boat that is 25m long?
There can’t be a legitimate reason to own such a boat. It can’t be seaworthy.
You would think it was fairly easy to find out who makes them and make it illegal.

Trafficking people isn't legal. Boats are a lot easier.

According to Google the boats are manufactured in Turkey and China. The seperate parts - the body of the boat, outboard etc are then smuggled across Europe. They are then assembled somewhere quiet along the coast. I imagine that they have a fast self-inflator - probably some sort of compressed gas,

They don't just buy them on Amazon.

There is a lot of French coastline. You just find an unobserved place to set it up, wait until dark and then drive it round to pick up the people.

 

[briantrumpet]

They don't just buy them on Amazon.

Dammit, I've got a month's free Prime for amazon.fr while I'm here.

 

[laurentian]

I'm pretty sure I heard Starmer talking about finding the sources of the dinghies with a view to stopping their production and sale.

 

[BoldonLad]

Whoa. If you disappear off the forum, we'll know that MI5 has been alerted by your Googling habits and taken swift action.

Based on the below, I think MI5 may need to look elsewhere, this contributor sounds very well informed on the whole process:
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Trafficking people isn't legal. Boats are a lot easier.

According to Google the boats are manufactured in Turkey and China. The seperate parts - the body of the boat, outboard etc are then smuggled across Europe. They are then assembled somewhere quiet along the coast. I imagine that they have a fast self-inflator - probably some sort of compressed gas,

They don't just buy them on Amazon.

There is a lot of French coastline. You just find an unobserved place to set it up, wait until dark and then drive it round to pick up the people.

 

[briantrumpet]

What is it about 52/48?

 

[briantrumpet]

So we're up to Wetherspoons and UK courts. Schools and swimming pools next please.

Or we could just ban them, as we would any concealed spying device being used in public and private spaces.

 

[secretsqirrel]

So we're up to Wetherspoons and UK courts. Schools and swimming pools next please.

Or we could just ban them, as we would any concealed spying device being used in public and private spaces.

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If they could be used as eclipse glasses he would make a killing at the moment….

Eclipse chasers scramble for glasses as stocks run low

 

[icowden]

What is it about 52/48?

It's probably just a general likely range of equilibrium where there is a pretty even split of opinion.
This is why it should never been seen as a mandate to change the status Quo.

It's the statistical equivalent of "we don't know"

 

[briantrumpet]

Ah, good 'ole capitalism: create funding crisis; only way to save sector is private finance; sector is sold off to highest bidders; highest bidders saddle sector with massive debts; costs skyrocket while no profits are made (apparently) and no taxes paid.

Education, health... what else can they target?

 

[Pblakeney]

What is it about 52/48?

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Strangely enough that is my cycling power L-R split.
Even my legs can't make up their minds. 😉

 

[PurplePenguin]

Ah, good 'ole capitalism: create funding crisis; only way to save sector is private finance; sector is sold off to highest bidders; highest bidders saddle sector with massive debts; costs skyrocket while no profits are made (apparently) and no taxes paid.

Education, health... what else can they target?

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Have they covered themselves in glory at the moment?

 

[briantrumpet]

Have they covered themselves in glory at the moment?

Who? The capitalists or the universities?

Re universities, it's one of the UK's best exports.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Who? The capitalists or the universities?

Re universities, it's one of the UK's best exports.

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So privatised US universities are the best? It's not a view I hold, but I think UK universities have got themselves into a bit of a mess, and could have been far better run.

 

[briantrumpet]

So privatised US universities are the best? It's not a view I hold, but I think UK universities have got themselves into a bit of a mess, and could have been far better run.

I think you'll have to expand on that, given their status in world rankings and the enormous financial contribution they've made to so many UK cities, not least Exeter, which now has a world-ranking university with a multi-billion-pound budget, compared with the provincial version it was when I studied there.

It's not helped that their tuition fees have been frozen for several years, and yet, despite that, they've flourished as a sector. The current crisis is largely down to UK government choices, such as freezing tuition fees, Brexit, withdrawing from Erasmus, and making the UK much more hostile to foreign students generally.

 

[First Aspect]

So privatised US universities are the best? It's not a view I hold, but I think UK universities have got themselves into a bit of a mess, and could have been far better run.

Slippery slope. More like a pre soaped water slide, actually.