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Smugglers shot a scared migrant in the kneecaps after he refused to board a boat on the same night 27 people died trying to cross the English Channel. Volunteers in the Calais jungle migrant camp rushed to the aid of a 20-year-old man who was “quickly losing a lot of blood” after a smuggler became frustrated at his refusal to board the vessel and drew a gun on him. The smuggler felt he had “lost out on easy money,” volunteers said, as the gangs are believed to only receive the full fee for transporting migrants once they have arrived in the UK. The assailant is on the run, according to French media reports. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/25/bit-like-drowning-scene-film-titanic/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=1db8212c2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_26_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-1db8212c2a-190801596 (Sorry about the font - tried to change it but didn't work)

He hasn't got off to a great start if this is anything to go by;- https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/10/15/la-police-tue-on-vous-explique-la-polemique-entre-poutou-et-les-forces-de-lordre-9854960.php Perhaps he would be more use to the country if he went back to screwing gear knobs on Ford gearboxes except he can't because the factory closed in 2019.

Thanks for trying to help, we have now received a full printed bank statement via email from the bank, showing all the bank logos etc- which you don't get if you just open your statement for that month online, it's just the bare figures and looks like you could have generated it yourself. If we get harassed further we will send them that as a finale.

No problem with the delivery - it was a DHL c*ck-up by the look of it - no UK vat charged by UK exporter - numerous emails from DHL informing that the consignment had cleared french customs at 4 am in the morning with no demand for vat or DHL handling charges - delivered here 2 or 3 days later. The invoice for the vat etc turned up in the post about 3 weeks after the delivery.

Briefly, We received an invoice in the post from DHL express for payment of import VAT and their handling charge of €47.50 We duly wrote a cheque made out to DHL Express in the correct french format and posted it off by normal post- there was no option to pay by card. We have since received threatening letters from DHL's debt collector - called Overland - demanding payment. We sent them an image of the cheque which we had saved, and a redacted printout of our bank statement showing the cheque no and that the cheque was paid. We have also sent the same to DHL customer service. (Redacted meaning all transactions on the statement were blacked out apart from the relevant transaction) We are trying to obtain from our CA bank the details of the account name/number of whom the cheque was paid into. but being CA it's like trying to swim in treacle. They say that the evidence of the cheque and the statement is enough to prove that we paid DHL. Overland continue to send threatening emails -I checked up on them with DHL and they are genuine. Question. Does anybody know definitely if we are legally in default or is DHL just trying it on?

Frontex, the EU border and coast guard agency stated that:- "A total of 11,150 people attempted to reach European countries in an unlawful way through its external borders in June 2021" "The agency has revealed that the number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders reached more than 61,000 in the first six months of 2021" So by definition if you enter a country illegally, you become an illegal immigrant don't you? https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/frontex-11100-people-attempted-to-enter-europe-illegally-in-june/

The soft touch scenario is an attraction, add to that the fact that most of then will have some english to a greater or lesser extent, as opposed to french, and that there is no requirement for personal id or registration in the UK and if they desire they can just submerge into the the twilight world of the black economy, usually working for other immigrant employers who turn a blind eye to the fact that they are illegals, and pay then less than the minimum wage on account of that. Then there is the widespread beds-in-sheds accommodation going on. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tens-of-thousands-of-people-living-in-beds-in-sheds-across-the-capital-report-shows-a3723786.html Add to all that, free medical treatment anywhere on the NHS - no questions asked. Why WOULDN'T you want to get into the UK anyway you could?

Maybe, but I still retain a Visa credit card to be able to occasionally purchase items from the UK and benefit from Section 75 protection.

I think that has more to do with hiding the contents from potential thieves during transit - what the eye doesn't see it doesn't covet etc.

This probably does not affect that many French residents, but it's as well to be aware. "As a result of Visa's continued high cost of payments, we regret that Amazon.co.uk will no longer accept UK-issued Visa credit cards as of 19 January, 2022," an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-stop-accepting-visa-credit-cards-issued-uk-bloomberg-news-2021-11-17/

Danny reports that their current car is only doing about 11000 km per year and that they have never lifted the bonnet in 3 years. An electric car would suit the distance driven better than either a petrol or diesel model. But presumably you still need to top up the screenwash reservoir?

Tha CND mindset and influence that anything nuclear is bad, is alive and doing fine in the UK and has always hindered the only sensible solution to the UK's long term electricity generation - nuclear power. Ignoring the fact that the old Magnox reactors designed to produce weapons grade plutonium are a different design to current power generating reactors. All the old Magnox reactors have been shut down in the UK. They produced heat as a by- product of the plutonium process. Current reactors are designed to produce heat for power generation and are much more efficient. That's why the UK has to use gas for about 50% of it's power generation which produces huge quantitties of pollution, while at the same time lecturing the rest of the world that pollution is bad.

I would support a national policy whereby La Chasse is authorised to hunt every other Sunday, by commune and at no other time. Then we would know 100% where we stand. This would give some relief to dog walkers, mushroom pickers etc, who just want to wander in the woods of a Sunday, without the risk of getting shot. Our local rules are far from clear, and frequently we come across official looking triangular road signs that proclaim "Chasse" on any day of the week - very helpful - not!

You might like to consider a different perspective on uninhabitable. Stand outside and look directly upwards. You are only five miles away from freezing to death. The temperature at that height is minus 30 to 35 C Be glad about that nice warming blanket of atmosphere that keeps you warm.

https://gcaptain.com/french-court-frees-impounded-british-trawler/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-4948b397a0-170341658&mc_cid=4948b397a0&mc_eid=9beb91a157 Freed without the payment of a €150.000 bond as previously demanded. Maybe the ship did have a license to fish for scallops after all?

The slogan ran :- “Beauty is in diversity as freedom is in hijab,” Exactly the opposite to the reality, sums up the EU to a T.

Contaminated with what? Concepts which you don't wish to discuss and inconvenient truths maybe?

On 31/10/2021 at 07:54, NormanH said: The author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Meotti and the source of the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatestone_Institute I replied with:- Play the ball please - not the man ( meaning, address the subject matter, not the source) But it was obscured beneath the "expand" banner. So, can you play this ball please Norman?

I would be interested as to whether you think this article is a "wind up". Extract. "It is like humidity in a house. Initially the threat is invisible...." — Boualem Sansal, Algerian novelist, L'Express. Bfmtv interviewed Fewzi Benhabib, a resident of Saint-Denis. Since his arrival from Algeria 25 years ago, he found in France the ideology from which he was fleeing in his former country "For the Islamists, it is a question of Islamizing modernity, not modernizing Islam." Next year, France will decide to try to save itself or continue to sink. Either way, it will unleash a tsunami that will not stop at its borders and instead flood all of Western Europe. "Where Islam takes hold, it is forever. Islamism is based on Islam, which no one has the right to criticize. But in your countries it also plays a role in democracy and in the rule of law. Islamism exploits these values. Since democracy recognizes all opinions, from the far right to the far left, it is obliged to recognize Islam as well. All those who do not commit attacks or violent acts are, in principle, protected in a state of law. Islamism thus immediately finds itself in a conquered terrain. It is necessary to fight Islamism from the beginning. Because it is like humidity in a house. Initially the threat is invisible, it penetrates the walls which, little by little, crumble. When you realize it is too late, you have to destroy everything to clean up. It becomes a mission impossible. France is at the stage where it has just discovered that Islam is eroding her home". In the book Grand Manipulateur, the journalist Marc Endeweld reveals what France's President Emmanuel Macron says in private on the sensitive issues of immigration: The ostensible "fault" of the French historian Georges Bensoussan was to declare on the radio that immigrants from Middle Eastern countries absorb anti-Semitism from an early age like "mother's milk." He was put on trial for incitement to hatred and finally cleared after four years. Bensoussan recently told Le Figaro what is happening to his country: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17843/france-election-immigration

I was a member back in the mists of time, but somehow it became difficult and subsequently impossible to log in despite multiple password resets which didn't work. And then there was an email yesterday inviting me to reset my password which worked!

Macron is a bullsh*t merchant, just like Blair. The world is full of people like him trying to take your money, take your freedom, and take advantage ... Be one step ahead. Learn to read the signs of a professional bullsh*tter, and you'll be a lot better off.