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Nine out of ten staff members from the UK probation service have voted in favour of a strike due to overwhelming workloads and low pay. This could threaten the government's plans to release around 5,000 prisoners early, including some dangerous offenders. If the strike goes ahead, up to 8,000 staff could walk out as soon as October, when the early release programme is set to begin. The solution is clear: we need to build more prisons, not housing for illegal immigrants. Everyone knows this, yet it continues to be ignored.

Labour's Minister for Borders, Anna Turley, has backed plans to house around 1,250 asylum seekers at a former military base in Bicester, near the village of Piddington, which has a population of just about 400. She stated that migrants need to be distributed more evenly across the country, not just in poorer areas. Why not just build luxury housing specifically for migrants right away?🤦‍♂️ After such ridiculous statements, the number of boats crossing will triple... We'll all end up suffering because of this.

Burnham has said that wealthier areas of the UK should take in more migrants. This comment comes as the country sees a new record: in the first 22 days of his term, over 3,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats. On Monday, a record boat arrived in Britain with 230 people on board, including children. Initially, there were more than 260 people on the boat, but due to overcrowding and rough waves, around 30 fell into the water. Have you figured out which way this is going? What’s happening right is an invasion. Why is this even being framed this way? Clearly, he should be talking about how to stop migration, not just how to improve their living conditions.

🇪🇺🇷🇼 The Rwandan government has started negotiations with the European Union and has preliminarily agreed to accept migrants deported from the EU. Earlier, Rwanda signed a similar agreement with the UK in 2022, but Keir Starmer canceled it when he became prime minister.

Female staff at a major NHS Trust say they feel uncomfortable and are afraid to speak out after the Trust’s leadership allowed transgender staff to continue using women’s toilets and changing rooms. Despite new guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), introduced following the Supreme Court ruling and stating that single-sex facilities should be provided on the basis of biological sex, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust said there would be no immediate changes to its policies. The Trust is also continuing to allow transgender patients to be accommodated on single-sex wards according to their gender identity. Deliberately ignoring a Supreme Court ruling? That sounds like a breach of the law. This whole obsession with self-identification is going too far. Taking away other people’s rights to make someone else feel comfortable isn’t exactly tolerant, is it?

Reform UK has proposed sending foreign criminals to serve their sentences in El Salvador or other countries if their home countries refuse to take them back. There are currently more than 10,000 foreign nationals in British prisons. The party also plans to build 12,000 new spaces in low-cost temporary prisons and end early release for dangerous offenders. Reform UK says this could halve the cost of keeping foreign prisoners and save billions of pounds over the next ten years. Compared with Labour’s current plans for releasing prisoners early, this actually sounds pretty good. What do you think?

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A record-breaking boat carrying 230 migrants arrived in the UK overnight – the highest number ever recorded on a single boat, and 65 more than the previous record set just 17 days earlier. More than 900 migrants arrived in the UK over the weekend. Last week, 173 migrants had to be rescued after the engine on one of the boats caught fire. They just can’t be stopped. This is a disgrace for our country at its worst.

🔹️🔹️💠B’ e ceann-cinnidh cumhachdach de na Ceiltich ann am Breatainn a bh’ ann an Cassivellaunus, a bha beò anns a’ 1d linn RC. Bha e os cionn treubh nan Catuvellauni agus, ann an 54 RC, chuir e an aghaidh an dàrna ionnsaigh a rinn Julius Caesar air Breatainn. 🔷️Chleachd Cassivellaunus innleachdan cogaidh èifeachdach, a’ gabhail a-steach ionnsaighean obann, cogaidhean guerrilla agus carbadan-cogaidh, gus adhartas arm na Ròimhe a dhèanamh nas slaodaiche agus dragh a chur air na loidhnichean solair aca. 🔷️Ach cha robh na Breatannaich aonaichte idir. Bha cuid de na treubhan nàimhdeil do Cassivellaunus agus chaidh iad taobh Caesar, a’ toirt fiosrachadh dha mu far an robh na feachdan aige. 🔹️🔹️💠Mu dheireadh, ghlac Caesar prìomh dhaingneach Cassivellaunus agus thug e air sìth a dhèanamh. Mar mhalairt air sìth, dh’aontaich Cassivellaunus nàimhdean a thoirt do Ròimh mar gheallaidhean agus cìs bhliadhnail a phàigheadh, ged a tha coltas ann nach deach na geallaidhean sin a choileanadh a-riamh.

💠🔹️🔹️Cassivellaunus was a powerful British Celtic chieftain who lived in the 1st century BC. He led the Catuvellauni tribe and, in 54 BC, opposed Julius Caesar’s second invasion of Britain. 🔷️Cassivellaunus made effective use of guerrilla tactics, surprise attacks and war chariots, aiming to slow the Roman army’s advance and disrupt its supply lines. 🔷️However, the Britons were far from united. Some tribes were hostile to Cassivellaunus and sided with Caesar, giving him information about the location of his forces. 💠🔹️🔹️Eventually, Caesar captured Cassivellaunus’s main stronghold and forced him to make peace. In return, Cassivellaunus agreed to provide hostages to Rome and pay an annual tribute, although these promises were probably never fulfilled.

The scandal surrounding former SNP chief Peter Murrell could now be the subject of a new investigation in the House of Lords. In June, Murrell was jailed for five years after stealing more than £400,000 of party money, which he spent on expensive purchases, including a £124,000 motorhome. Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of knowing about Murrell’s crimes, but she denies this. Current First Minister John Swinney, meanwhile, is against a new investigation. If there’s nothing to hide, why refuse an investigation? You’d only do that if you had something to hide.

Burnham could scale back the use of the Union Jack in Labour’s branding in a bid to win over the party’s left wing. Under Starmer, the Union Jack became an important part of Labour's image, but some left-wing MPs criticised the prominent use of the flag, arguing that it did not resonate with some voters. Under Burnham, the party could instead put more emphasis on its traditional red rose rather than national symbols. The flag is part of our country’s heritage. We should never be ashamed of that. Because if we are ashamed of our own symbols now, what does that say about where the country is heading?