[Breitbart] Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has questioned why the left-wing Labour Party government is releasing criminals back onto the streets early rather than deporting the thousands of foreign criminals clogging up space in British jails.
In a question posed in the House of Commons, Tice, who serves as Nigel Farage’s second-in-command questioned: “Why, when there are some 10,000 foreign criminals blocking up space in our jails, why aren’t they being removed and deported, simultaneously saving the British taxpayer billions of pounds every year and having the support of millions of British voters?”
This call was seconded by Mark Fairhurst, the national chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association, who told TalkTV on Tuesday that while there are some difficulties surrounding deportations, such as the need to identify a foreign criminal’s country of origin and for those countries to actually accept returns of their nationals, there is “absolutely no reason why we couldn’t repatriate and create an additional 10,000 spaces.”
“Over the last couple of years, ridiculous as it sounds, we’ve been offering financial incentives for prisoners to go back to their country of origin,” Fairhurst said, noting that this has often happened with Albanian criminals, who still represent the largest foreign cohort in British prisons.
Good to know.
The POA chairman pointed out that the UK does have a returns policy with Albania and therefore the government could easily start to remove more Albanian criminals from the country.
Fairhurst also argued that the £4 billion earmarked by the Labour government to invest in building more prisons could be better spent on modernising the current prison system, which he described as “crumbling”, as well as putting money into funding more mental health spaces as there are a “lot of people in prisons with acute mental health disorders because it’s the only place” to put them.
As of the end of March, there were 10,422 foreign criminals in jails in England and Wales, an increase from 10,148 at the same time last year. Foreign offenders make up around 12 per cent of the total prison population, costing the UK taxpayer £47,000 per head to feed, house, and rehabilitate, or around £500 million per year, according to The Telegraph.
Last year, the government only managed to deport less than 4,000 foreign criminals from the country. While this represented the highest figure in four years, criminal deportations still remained below pre-pandemic levels, with the UK previously averaging around 5,500 removals between 2010 and 2019.
Meanwhile, as of September of 2023, the government had released 11,800 foreign criminals back onto the streets of Britain instead of being deported, which represented nearly a 100 per cent increase over the previous five years. Comparatively, since 2010, less than one thousand foreign criminals have been removed to serve the remainder of their sentences in their home countries.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood
…such a traditional English name!
has claimed that foreign criminals “are being deported” but admitted that “nothing will change as far as the deportation of foreign national offenders is concerned.” Mahmood went on to blame the “inheritance” of overcrowded prisons left by the former Tory government for why the Labour government had to take the “additional measure” of releasing thousands of criminals back onto the streets of Britain.
Mahmood has previously claimed that the early release of criminals was necessary to prevent a “total breakdown of civil law and order”.
This makes no sense, nor was it meant to accomplish anything more than to push native English buttons.
On Tuesday, the government released an estimated 1,700 criminals back onto the streets early, with the expectation of releasing around 5,500 criminals who have served just 40 per cent of their sentences.
Those released early have reportedly included domestic abusers, drug dealers, thieves, and violent criminals. Those convicted of serious violent crimes, with sentences of more than four years, as well as terrorists and sex offenders are supposedly not eligible for early release.
While domestic abusers are technically not supposed to be released early, there have been warnings that domestic abusers who were convicted of other crimes could be set free. Adding insult to injury, reports have also claimed that because of the system being overwhelmed, many victims of domestic abuse have not been notified that their victimiser is set to be released.
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Foreign criminals should simply be considered organ donors and used appropriately. They are a wonderful way to recycle and help your citizens live longer lives.
[DM] A despised Illinois mayor threw an $85,000 party for her town, despite plunging her budget into debt and being cut off from the state for out-of-control spending.
Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard, 41, threw the event for the suburban Chicago town, spending $50,000 in taxpayers' money to cover 60 minutes of performances and more than $35,000 on activities, equipment and staff.
'I was flabbergasted. I was pissed off. That's my money. That's the people's money,' resident Jennifer Robertz told WGN 9.
Henyard - who was recently cut off by the Illinois State Comptroller after refusing to hand over finance records - spent $30,000 on R&B artist Keke Wyatt and $20,000 on rapper J. Holiday to each perform for 30 minutes at the The Taste of Thornton Township event.
The self-proclaimed 'super mayor' was seen enjoying the performances with a bright smile on her face, though images from the event show it was sparsely attended.
Henyard spent an additional nearly $36,000 on a sound system, staff, equipment, comedians, and bounce houses - which cost $6,600 alone, according to WGN 9.
Former Dolton trustee Valeria Stubbs called the event a 'flop' and said only about 70 people attended.
'She likes to use our tax dollars to promote herself,' Stubbs told WGN 9. 'She does all these events trying to buy the voters.'
Resident Sherry Britton added: 'Tiffany is a narcissist. She's going to do whatever she wants to do. I feel like she knows this is over but she's going to go down kicking and screaming like an MMA fighter. It's not going to stop until they put cuffs on her.'
Most of the event's contracts were signed before the township's trustees put spending controls in place, according to WGN 9.
Henyard was banned from using town credit cards last month after the Illinois village board of trustees brought in measures against her.
The trustees said that they will only allow the Director of Administrative Services to use the town's credit card for 'board-approved purchases.'
The high-rolling mayor, who earns $300,000 for her public duties, has spent thousands more on first-class trips, a professional hair and makeup team, and a security detail.
Henyard is also under a federal investigation for overspending.
Just a year after she took office in April 2022, Dolton had a $5.6million budget surplus.
But last month, a probe by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot uncovered a $3.6million deficit in the town's budget, which emerged under Henyard's tenure.
Henyard is said to have racked up eye-watering costs, including $40,00 spent on Amazon in a single day.
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Pains the black half of my cultural appropriation, but I have to say she's a great example of why we do not see tons of successful governments in Africa.
[JustTheNews] Representative James Comer (R-KY) says the billions of dollars in pandemic unemployment relief fraud is the result of “years and years” of government incompetence. “Government is so bad that the bureaucrats now don’t have any remorse or concern about the taxpayer dollars,” he says. “Look, we’ve proven that they wasted as much as $200 billion—that's one-fifth of a trillion dollars—through fraud in the COVID unemployment programs and worse, no one’s been held accountable."
[Epoch Times] Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared before Congress on Sept. 10 to defend his decision-making in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when he governed the state. The governor’s March 2020 directive requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19-positive patients has been widely criticized as a direct contributor to the state’s high number of pandemic fatalities.
Cuomo, however, told members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday the directive was not to blame for those deaths. "All credible studies now say that COVID came into nursing homes through community spread and infected staff, not hospital admissions or readmissions," he said.
Cuomo’s actions were defended by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, who agreed with the former governor that President Donald Trump’s policies were primarily to blame for any excess pandemic deaths. "I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I’m appalled by the majority’s decision to evade and bypass the central events of the epidemic for totally political reasons," Raskin said, calling Trump’s response to the pandemic a failure.
Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), the subcommittee’s ranking Democrat, asked the former governor whether it was his decision to change his state’s reporting of nursing home fatality data in May 2020 to exclude out-of-facility deaths, such as the deaths of residents who were transferred to hospitals.
Cuomo replied that it was not his decision and that he didn’t know whose it was.
Noting that the change artificially lowered New York’s reported number of nursing home fatalities, Ruiz asked whether that was the reason for the adjustment.
Cuomo said the change arose from increased inquiries "as the Republicans started this nursing home scandal theory."
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) criticized Cuomo for securing a $5 million book deal in the midst of the pandemic, saying he would "never hold elected office again." The former governor resigned from his post in August 2021 amid allegations of sexual harassment.
[NDTV World] These earrings, which resemble Nova H1 audio earrings, are designed to appear as stylish accessories while functioning as wireless earphones.
Following the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, a new topic of discussion emerged on social media. Several users on X focused on Harris's unique earrings, sparking speculation about their purpose. Many X users, particularly Trump's supporters, suggested that the earrings might be earphones, implying they could have been used to receive assistance during the debate. These earrings, which resemble Nova H1 audio earrings, are designed to appear as stylish accessories while functioning as wireless earphones.
''It appears Kamala Harris was being coached by using earphones embedded in her earrings during the ABC presidential debate against President Trump," one user wrote on X.
Another person commented, ''I think Kamala did a great job tonight in the debate against Trump, who I think is a great orator and debater himself. But her earrings intrigued me a lot. Maybe because I got reminded of similar-looking ones from some tech article on an earphone that looks like earrings.''
#7
Big Ticket Fundraising & Backing, advertising clips, and internal morale.
As if there was any doubt, now a big name like Taylor Swift can crow about how controlling mean boys who like Trump are to women, "He will take away your casual club sex lifestyle and you will have screaming children instead of being a forever swiftee!"
#8
If not then she was given all the questions beforehand.
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Or both.
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What was that line?
"Question have not been either candidate beforehand."
Like the meme goes, what an odd thing to say.
Best take I have, is that is a true statement. Team Harris gave the questions to ABC, who were then able to properly weight the 'questions' accordingly and work on prompts.
[Washington Examiner] It took a comment on abortion for the moderators of the ABC News debate to drop any semblance of impartiality and join the discussion on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Donald Trump, who referenced comments by former Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, noted that the Democratic Party’s line on abortion is extreme and allows for abortion up to and after birth.
His comment was factual, as a handful of states, including Minnesota, the home state of Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), do not require babies that are born after botched abortions to be given life-saving care.
That didn’t stop ABC News moderator Linsey Davis from butting in and declaring, "There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill the baby after it’s born." Davis' body language was a bit too obvious. She was there for Harris at every turn.
From there, it only got worse. Davis’s co-moderator, David Muir, got into an exchange with Trump over disputed anecdotal reports that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating local pets.
Someone forgot that Liberal White Female Privilege is that their 'feelings win over any facts'? Don't worry, its already a set voting block and the Orange man was not going to get their votes anyway.
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Davis showed her chip on the opening...question.
I thought by the end Muir was getting a crush.
All Harris had to do was not stutter or make stupid grimaces, and didn't really do that. I hate that wide eye blink thing like they some sort of anime fetish. He may have been all over the place, but by the end Trump was dominating the stage.
But I wasn't the target audience, so salt as you will.
Not sure what the Harris strategy was except to not chew gum and fall over. Stage gravitas, maybe? All I saw was wild gesturing and catty awkshuallys, along with her Thanos neck and whatever they did to her hair to make it seem like a wig. Say what you will about diminished Brandon, he at least put out a stage presence.
#6
The format of these "debates" is just ridiculous. Candidates are not debating each other but answering (or rather not answering) the questions of "moderators". Absurd.
Also you can't have a meaningful debate with 20 topics that have to be dealt with in 2 minutes.
You want to fix immigration? Work out a decent plan and explain it.
You want to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Tell us in detail how this could be possible.
You want to save the economy with tariffs? Explain how this could work.
The "debate" was absurd from the very first minute when Harris simply didn't answer the question on whether America was doing better than 4 years ago. It veered into absurdity when immigrants started eating cats and dogs.
The strongest line of Trump came in the end. Harris has a plan for every problem, but why didn't she do anything in the last 3 years?
If I had a suggestion to make: Do more, but REAL debates with one topic only, and let the candidates debate each other with enough time to explain their plans and actions.
1) immigration
2) economy
3) global conflicts
4) abortion (maybe)
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Perhaps because of what I do for a living, I’m extra critical of Donald Trump’s performance. I’ve been pointing out for days now what Trump needed to do in the debate, and seeing him miss opportunity after opportunity was beyond frustrating. But according to a report from Reuters, undecided voters largely shifted to him after the debate.
“Kamala Harris was widely seen as dominating Tuesday’s presidential debate against Republican former president Donald Trump, but a group of undecided voters remained unconvinced that the Democratic vice president was the better candidate,” the outlet reported.
Reuters interviewed ten undecided voters before and after a debate. Six of them shifted toward supporting Trump, three leaned toward Harris, and one remained uncertain. That’s a rather solid outcome for Trump.
“Although the sample size was small, the responses suggested Harris might need to provide more detailed policy proposals to win over voters who have yet to make up their minds,” wrote Reuters.
As always, the key is to get beyond the margin of cheating.
#9
Also, for many Democratic voters, this is the only time they will see The Donald unfiltered by the Progressive mainstream media. This is an opportunity to show that he isn’t nearly as horrible as they were told, and that Ms Kamala is distressingly vapid — even if he didn’t win the debate on points.
[FOX News]Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president just minutes after the Democratic nominee's presidential debate against her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Writing on Instagram, the pop star said she will be voting for Harris because, "she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them."
"I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice. Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered!" Swift wrote to her 283 million followers. "I also find it’s much easier to vote early. I’ll link where to register and find early voting dates and info in my story."
Swift signed the post: "Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady," a nod to Trump's running mate J.D. Vance, who said during a 2021 interview: "We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too."
Within minutes, the post had garnered more than 2 million likes.
Swift's endorsement came after some of her fans gave Brittany Mahomes flak for supporting Trump.
Mahomes, a 29-year-old pregnant mother, first indicated her support for Trump on Aug. 13 when she liked Trump's Instagram post that outlined the "2024 GOP platform."
The like ignited a firestorm of backlash against the wife of the superstar quarterback. In fact, the critics included fans of Swift. Multiple fan pages dedicated to Swift posted the screenshots of the like on social media, spreading the reach of the backlash.
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The Donks are screaming abortions as the 'bloody flag' making sure everyone ignores the SCOTUS decision that clearly says its a state issue. Trunks are very poor in pointing out that fact loud and clear. What the Donks are clearly showing is that they want unlimited and unconstrained power at the federal level. Pounce on that a*holes.
BTW, Ms Taylor will see a lot of her wealth grabbed with the DNC's 'unrealized financial gains'. The old 'Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'.
#9
I never understood the Taylor Swift phenomenon. She's a mediocre singer at best.
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Now here's a singer:
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Dang. You talk about singers...
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Ms Taylor will see a lot of her wealth grabbed with the DNC's 'unrealized financial gains'.
I'm sure she would be on the Exempt list
An invitation for one of those accounting systems would be better than a paycheck.
I never understood the Taylor Swift phenomenon. She's a mediocre singer at best.
She was initially billed as singer/songwriter/musician with a tough background, so when she rejected that for sexpop music it made all the hollywood people happy because selling shallow to rich girls is well rehearsed; and now its a way for rich wine moms to act forever 20 and their strange dads to go hang out around teenage girls without being suspicious.
Her recent exposure has to do with being part of the Don't Have Children message being pushed, especially her predominately White audience. "Look at all the attention and fun there is dating the star football player - impossible to do if you have a kid."
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#9 I never understood the Taylor Swift phenomenon
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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I think I understand what you're saying, P2K. I might be in danger of losing some battles because I don't understand, don't know, Taylor Swift. But swksvolFF might have provided some enlightenment for me at #12. Sounds like as good an explanation as any.
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The final post of the evening. See the rest at the link.
Sep 10, 2024 10:48 PM ET
Stephen Green
The Dems got what they wanted tonight. The Progressive Axis — Harris and her ABC News foils — got under Trump’s skin and stayed there. Just as importantly, Harris was able to fire off her scripted talking points without interruption, correction, or serious questions.
So that part sucked.
The part that didn’t suck is that Harris didn’t do that thing Biden somehow managed in 2020 — to come across as likable. What I think most people saw was two people they didn’t particularly like. The difference is, they already knew they didn’t like Trump. Harris’s unlikability might have been news to them.
And, hey, don’t shoot the messenger here. I’m just talking about both candidates’ favorability ratings.
The State Steno Pool will chalk it up as a massive Harris win but I’m not sure how many viewers will actually buy it. Do they buy anything the SSP is selling anymore?
If there is another debate, I hope Trump preps harder. And mostly I want his coaches to push his buttons like an irate pedestrian stabbing at the crosswalk button. PUSH PUSH PUSH. He can rein it in — he just lacked the discipline tonight to do it.
But in the end, can anyone stand to listen to THAT VOICE for the next four or eight years?
Could tonight have gone better? Sure. But we have two more months to go.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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'I was flabbergasted. I was pissed off. That's my money. That's the people's money,' resident Jennifer Robertz told WGN 9. 
Cuomo, however, told members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday the directive was not to blame for those deaths. "All credible studies now say that COVID came into nursing homes through community spread and infected staff, not hospital admissions or readmissions," he said.
[FOX News]Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president just minutes after the Democratic nominee's presidential debate against her Republican opponent, Donald Trump. 
