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[Dr The Singh]

11 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Just asked AI and they did something very similar back in 2019 after an ‘attack’ (in quotation marks for neutrality purposes) in Indian Kashmir. Way of escalation management like Israel and Iran did.

It's the usual 'India vs Pakistan' playbook.  Both nations have to come out of this looking strong and defiant.

[Md9]

34 minutes ago, reporterpenguin said:

And in what I'm sure was a coincidence, Escape From Alcatraz just happened to have been on TV in Florida where he was golfing the night before he announced it.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-escape-from-alcatraz-pbs-b2745233.html

Probably sat at home tonight watching King Kong getting ready to set up a press conference ready to declare war on the giant ape

[Md9]

The World Cup and Olympics should boycott  going to America at all see how they like that . Vance is a tool 

[Paninistickers]

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

We really are cooked as a country if a decent looking trade deal with India is perceived as bad because a few highly skilled Indian workers won’t have to pay national insurance over a 3 year period. 

😂😂😂.....since when has deliveroo been highly skilled? 

 

And I think a quarter of a million a year piling in on student visas since brexit hardly constitutes 'a few'

 

 

[Dr The Singh]

6 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

😂😂😂.....since when has deliveroo been highly skilled? 

 

And I think a quarter of a million a year piling in on student visas since brexit hardly constitutes 'a few'

 

 

This is a problem.  The student visa system is a scam, it's a well advertised method in India on how to gain entry.  I got several family members who came through this method, there not students there economic migrants.

[Paninistickers]

5 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

This is a problem.  The student visa system is a scam, it's a well advertised method in India on how to gain entry.  I got several family members who came through this method, there not students there economic migrants.

Who can blame them?

 

If I wanted to move me wife and kids  to USA and all I needed was some bum US college course to get in, it'd be crazy not to. 

 

Edit; it's not just Indians. Plenty of African families living in student accommodation in and around de mint uni

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 May 2025 by Paninistickers

[Trav Le Bleu]

20 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

This is a problem.  The student visa system is a scam, it's a well advertised method in India on how to gain entry.  I got several family members who came through this method, there not students there economic migrants.

@Dr The Singh clearly didn't learn anything

[Dr The Singh]

8 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

@Dr The Singh clearly didn't learn anything

I come by boat, not viza

[leicsmac]

10 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Carney was incredibly restrained in that meeting.

 

Probably works out for the best that he was.

Further to the above:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4gw18753o

 

You do wonder sometimes just how international relations have come to conversations and statements like this.

 

NB. Not sure the UK should be so quick to come to any kind of deals with a Modi-led India given their apparent penchant for sectarian violence at the present time.

[Jon the Hat]

10 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Carney was incredibly restrained in that meeting.

 

Probably works out for the best that he was.

He is an international level operator, so should be no surprise he can keep his opinions to himself.

[spacemunky]

10 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Carney was incredibly restrained in that meeting.

 

Probably works out for the best that he was.

Made me proud to have voted for him.

[leicsmac]

12 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

He is an international level operator, so should be no surprise he can keep his opinions to himself.

Yes, you could tell the experience in an international diplomatic environment that he's had.

 

It's still rather despairing that he's having to hold himself in so much because of the bombastic egotism of his counterpart, though.

 

 

10 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

Made me proud to have voted for him.

Canada and Oz have given me a little hope for the future. Hopefully other nations follow suit soon enough.

[Dr The Singh]

19 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Further to the above:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4gw18753o

 

You do wonder sometimes just how international relations have come to conversations and statements like this.

 

NB. Not sure the UK should be so quick to come to any kind of deals with a Modi-led India given their apparent penchant for sectarian violence at the present time.

India, whether it be Modi, BJP or Gandhi regimes have been killing/genocide on there minorities and targeting PAK for generations, the now is no different. We forget the billions of weaponry and training we have and continue to supply.  The question is, if we didn't somebody else would have.  I agree, with u, it doesn't seem right to bring that sectarian belief into our nation also.

[leicsmac]

Just now, Dr The Singh said:

India, whether it be Modi, BJP or Gandhi regimes have been killing/genocide on there minorities and targeting PAK for generations, the now is no different. We forget the billions of weaponry and training we have and continue to supply.  The question is, if we didn't somebody else would have.  I agree, with u, it doesn't seem right to bring that sectarian belief into our nation also.

No disagreement there.

 

Three nuclear armed powers quibbling in an area that contains some of the largest solid freshwater reserves (which is going to become an incredibly vital resource rather soon) outside of Antarctica. What could possibly go wrong?

[Jon the Hat]

38 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Canada and Oz have given me a little hope for the future. Hopefully other nations follow suit soon enough.

I don't get a vote over here as yet, but the Liberal opposition were incoherent in policy terms and led by a man who while apparently likeable in person doesn't carry that onto the TV screen at all.  While I wouldn't get too excited, it is a positive that the right cannot get themselves organised.

[Jon the Hat]

10 hours ago, reporterpenguin said:

And in what I'm sure was a coincidence, Escape From Alcatraz just happened to have been on TV in Florida where he was golfing the night before he announced it.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-escape-from-alcatraz-pbs-b2745233.html

He's the greatest movie watcher there has ever been.  So great.  They say no president has ever watched movies like him.  I mean possibly because they were leading the country instead.  Or playing golf.  My anyway, what was my point?  Yes!  They should definitely reopen a dated old prison in a location which will cost a fortune to build on, just because it looks difficult to escape from.  Not in a movie though of course, that would be silly.

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

I don't get a vote over here as yet, but the Liberal opposition were incoherent in policy terms and led by a man who while apparently likeable in person doesn't carry that onto the TV screen at all.  While I wouldn't get too excited, it is a positive that the right cannot get themselves organised.

That's not really stopped Trumpism in other places, so I think I'll take the wins where I can get them right now.

[Lionator]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

He is an international level operator, so should be no surprise he can keep his opinions to himself.

What I admire about Carney is that hes just a technocrat who loves the game. It must be a welcome break from PR machine Trudeau and the bombast across the border 

Edited 7 May 2025 by Lionator

[Dr The Singh]

51 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

No disagreement there.

 

Three nuclear armed powers quibbling in an area that contains some of the largest solid freshwater reserves (which is going to become an incredibly vital resource rather soon) outside of Antarctica. What could possibly go wrong?

People blame Sikh separatist or the Khalistan movement on religious segregation.  The facts are the movement leader, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale, did not ask for a separate state, his fight was for Punjab rights, a accord called Anandpur Sahib Accord, the biggest principle of the accord was Punjabs rights to its waters.  India had diverted Punjab river water and its dam waters to other states.  Ecologist and scientist have shown the effects in the last 50 years, the consequence of this is turning Punjab into a desert.  India and its propaganda engine turned this movement into a sectarian, anti Indian independence movement.  The consequences lead to the genocide and rape of 10's of thousands of Sikhs.  Punjab's infrastructure is controlled by India and Punjabi righta are being violated.  Water wars are going to be a major factor soon.

[Md9]

This guy sounds like a pr*** all the time any way but it really is disturbing how many people watch anything trump related and think he is playing some kind of game. He has no idea what he is doing other than to try p*** people off so he can shout at them. Even that doesn’t work 

[Robo61]

10 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

😂😂😂.....since when has deliveroo been highly skilled? 

 

And I think a quarter of a million a year piling in on student visas since brexit hardly constitutes 'a few'

 

 

The no NI rule only applies to those transferred to the UK to work for Indain companies.  There are also earnings limits in order to be able to gain a work visa  to the UK.  I wasn't aware that deliveroo was an Indain Company and that they pay their unskilled workers over £35,000 a year. 

 

Where did you get the 1/4 million from??

[leicsmac]

29 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

People blame Sikh separatist or the Khalistan movement on religious segregation.  The facts are the movement leader, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale, did not ask for a separate state, his fight was for Punjab rights, a accord called Anandpur Sahib Accord, the biggest principle of the accord was Punjabs rights to its waters.  India had diverted Punjab river water and its dam waters to other states.  Ecologist and scientist have shown the effects in the last 50 years, the consequence of this is turning Punjab into a desert.  India and its propaganda engine turned this movement into a sectarian, anti Indian independence movement.  The consequences lead to the genocide and rape of 10's of thousands of Sikhs.  Punjab's infrastructure is controlled by India and Punjabi righta are being violated.  Water wars are going to be a major factor soon.

Exactly so. And those problems are going to be felt at a global level.

 

 

10 minutes ago, Md9 said:

This guy sounds like a pr*** all the time any way but it really is disturbing how many people watch anything trump related and think he is playing some kind of game. He has no idea what he is doing other than to try p*** people off so he can shout at them. Even that doesn’t work 

The absolutely unabashed blantacy of the lies would be hilarious if so many people didn't buy into them and use it to make other people's lives more difficult.

[davieG]

"You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts". - Rumi

 

 

 

 

[Dr The Singh]

49 minutes ago, Robo61 said:

The no NI rule only applies to those transferred to the UK to work for Indain companies.  There are also earnings limits in order to be able to gain a work visa  to the UK.  I wasn't aware that deliveroo was an Indain Company and that they pay their unskilled workers over £35,000 a year. 

 

Where did you get the 1/4 million from??

I think the £35k is the value these workers need to have there spouse and kids in the UK.  If these drivers are self employed, i'm sure they can work it out.

 

I have been invited to a strategic workshop on looking at taking advantage of the Indian Visa situation, a proposal has been made to recruit primarily Indian graduates, and visa approved and thus saving upto 40% on salary costs.  Another proposal has been made to setup an alliance with some of the big tech firms and universities and offer pay for master degrees with an offer of employment.

 

I think Starmer has shot himself in the foot on this one, parents like me, who already see struggles for our kids, on housing etc etc, this is just another struggle against another cheaper labour market country.

[Robo61]

1 hour ago, Dr The Singh said:

I think the £35k is the value these workers need to have there spouse and kids in the UK.  If these drivers are self employed, i'm sure they can work it out.

 

I have been invited to a strategic workshop on looking at taking advantage of the Indian Visa situation, a proposal has been made to recruit primarily Indian graduates, and visa approved and thus saving upto 40% on salary costs.  Another proposal has been made to setup an alliance with some of the big tech firms and universities and offer pay for master degrees with an offer of employment.

 

I think Starmer has shot himself in the foot on this one, parents like me, who already see struggles for our kids, on housing etc etc, this is just another struggle against another cheaper labour market country.

This agreement hasn't changed anything  with regard Visa's for Indian nationals, so any loopholes you are looking to exploit are not down to the current government.