Jeremy Clarkson mocking someone’s teeth is adorable coming from a man who’s spent decades looking like a sun-dried scrotum with a double chin that has its own postcode!

If there really is "an exodus of young Britons", who could blame them. If I were a newly qualified young engineer again, I would be off like a shot. A country that is in the thrall of hateful right wing media, shot itself in the foot by abandoning its biggest, closest trading partner -

💯 right. Especially the 2nd part abt the need to make migration easier, not harder. I wrote about it in the NYT during Trump1 to clear my name after getting criminally charged thanks to Denmark's insane anti-immigration policy (my crime was giving an invited lecture on my research to Parliament).

in one's foot.

So, after Brexit, that's both feet out of action

To give you a practical example:

My workplace has just announced that the introduction of the levy on foreign students adds a £12M burden on our costs.

Fewer overseas students coming in are going to REDUCE that income to the country. How is that good?

It really feels like shooting oneself ...

Just listened to it this s morning...

Powerful stuff, nevertheless

Lucky you!

I AM disgusted, but not shocked. Only in the sense "not surprised".

I am not underplaying it.

It's so consistent with his vile persona.

Not surprised.

But the shocking stuff is what he has said and done in the last 15 years.

As they say:

Good things come to those who wait

Stage Two: dip in molten chocolate

There's a very simple solution. Process asylum applications fast, starting from giving applicants a voucher for transit on any one of the legal ferries across the channel.

The frequency of chancers is probably equally distributed among humans.

Except in the seats of power: political and financial. Where I guess it's a lot higher.