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UK airports face nationwide border system issue, causing major delays
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LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - Passengers flying into Britain faced major delays after landing at airports on Saturday due to a nationwide issue affecting the automated border control gates that scan passports upon arrival.

Images posted on social media showed long queues with hundreds of people at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports with frustrated passengers complaining of having to wait several hours in line. "We are aware of a nationwide border system issue affecting arrivals into the UK," said a spokesperson for the British government's interior ministry, which has oversight of border control.

"We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and are liaising with port operators and airlines to minimise disruption for travellers," they told Reuters. Heathrow, Britain's busiest airport, said it had deployed extra staff to manage the queues and was working with Border Force to help resolve the problem.

While many foreign visitors to the UK need to see a border control officer upon landing, others, including British, EU and U.S. citizens, can use the automated gates known as e-gates to scan their passports and enter the country. The disruption, which comes during a busy period for travel in Britain with a spring bank holiday on Monday and a half-term break for schools next week, means all passengers have to be processed at manual checkpoints.
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Want a simple measure of how a country is doing?
Then look at its roads by the increasingly pothole laden roads you can see the UK is a country in serious decline where stuff just doesn't work anymore.
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Exactly as I predicted.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eeves-says

Expect more of this dithering and incrementalism under Labour, as more and more of their policies are watered down or quietly dropped altogether.

We seem to be heading for a U.S.-style political system, in which there isn't much meaningful difference between the two main parties. I recently made the decision that I won't be voting Labour in '24.
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wjfox wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:39 am Exactly as I predicted.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eeves-says

Expect more of this dithering and incrementalism under Labour, as more and more of their policies are watered down or quietly dropped altogether.

We seem to be heading for a U.S.-style political system, in which there isn't much meaningful difference between the two main parties. I recently made the decision that I won't be voting Labour in '24.
Green for me in 24' but over the years i've only seen 5 parties come to my door to talk or post leaflets which are the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP. I never know what the Greens stand for because i never see there candidate in my area.
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wjfox wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:39 am Exactly as I predicted.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eeves-says

Expect more of this dithering and incrementalism under Labour, as more and more of their policies are watered down or quietly dropped altogether.

We seem to be heading for a U.S.-style political system, in which there isn't much meaningful difference between the two main parties. I recently made the decision that I won't be voting Labour in '24.

I wish Starmer's administration were what people thought it was going to be, genuinely. Even a lot of genuine democratic socialists got wooed by his rhetoric only to be purged from the party over the past few years. Labour is just the Tony Blair party again...

I hope the greens can win more control globally. In the US it's rather hopeless for third parties; even so, I was recently disheartened to learn about a photo showing Jill Stein former presidential candidate of the Green Party in 2016 sitting at a dinner table with Vladimir Putin. It's not that the Green party in America is wholly corrupt, I don't think it is. In the rare cases where the Greens have won local elections here they genuinely have passed favorable environmental laws and built new nature preserves, as well as good social policies. The problem is that the American political system is so fundamentally corrupt that because small parties have to accept political donations to compete, when a powerful political agent like Russia (or a megacorporation) decides to meddle they can for an election cycle.

In any case the Greens gaining ground in Germany and the UK would be a step in the right direction. Maybe if we're lucky by 2030 or 2035 they could be a real threat to the powers at be in certain countries?
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Nadine Dorries quits as Tory MP and triggers by-election
2023-06-09 16:55

Rishi Sunak is facing a by-election after Nadine Dorries announced she is standing down as an MP “with immediate effect”.

The move comes after months-long speculation that the former culture secretary was to be handed a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, although recent reporting suggested the Government cut her from the list at the 11th hour to swerve an early election battle in her seat.

The former prime minister’s long-awaited list, which is said to include around 50 names, is expected to be released imminently.

Ms Dorries tweeted on Friday afternoon: “I have today informed the chief whip that I am standing down as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, with immediate effect.

“It has been an honour to serve as the MP for such a wonderful constituency but it is now time for another to take the reins.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... on-350422/
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Boris Johnson: I've been forced out over Partygate report
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Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP with immediate effect after receiving the Partygate report.

That report by the MP-led Privileges Committee looked into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street.

Mr Johnson accused the Commons inquiry of attempting to "drive me out".

In a statement he said: "They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons."

Earlier on Friday, he received a copy of the yet-to-be-published report, which he claimed was "riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65863267

Another by-election incoming.
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Telegraph owner on verge of administration as talks break down
2023-06-07 08:35

The owners of the Daily Telegraph faces administration after a breakdown in talks over loans the business has racked up over the years.

Lloyds Banking Group has come to blows with Press Acquisitions, the company controlled by the Barclay family that owns the newspapers’ parent company, Telegraph Media Group (TMG), over around £65 million in loans.

According to Times reports, the bank is prepared to call in a restructuring advisory group and appoint insolvency practitioners “within days” as the situation unravels.

Commenting on the matter, Michael Lynch, partner at city law firm DMH Stallard and insolvency expert, said: “At some point, whatever the size of the loan and whomever the name of the borrower, lenders will review their enforcement options, possibly taking action, if that borrower either fails to service its debt and/or does not engage with that lender.

“There comes a time when continued forbearance provided by a lender is no longer a viable option.”
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