Brexit
Express
THE UK Government has signalled it is prepared to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol to protect peace as it pins the blame for instability in the province on the European Union.
Northern Ireland was rocked by street violence last month and there is anger in unionist communities at how the post-Brexit protocol has disrupted trade with England, Wales and Scotland. The UK Government considers prosperity the “bedrock to peace” in Northern Ireland and is concerned that businesses and consumers are struggling. It says the present disruption s “not sustainable”. Alarm is so great that a Whitehall source warned that “nothing can be left off the table”.
Fury at the erection of a de facto border in the Irish Sea is a key reason why Arlene Foster has been forced to quit as First Minister and DUP leader, and the row is believed to have strengthened opponents of the Good Friday Agreement which underpins power-sharing at Stormont.
The protocol is designed to avoid customs checks along the Irish border but trust was badly damaged in January when the EU moved to block the export of Covid-19 vaccines to Northern Ireland. The decision was reversed but the EU’s willingness to use override the protocol using its “Article 16” emergency provisions during a health crisis caused cross-party shock.
A Whitehall source said: “We over-estimated the EU’s ability to be reasonable, particularly after the damage caused by the unilateral action in January. After so much work to achieve finely balanced compromise, their actions are destabilising things on the ground in Northern Ireland.
“No Government can stand by as businesses and consumers struggle. If we cannot find pragmatic solutions, nothing can be left off the table.”
Fisheries
Express
ANY move by France to cut off Jersey’s electricity supply would see it shunned by the EU, experts warned last night. But Brussels may deploy other, less radical, measures with analysts adding: “It’s not over yet”.
A face-off between Royal Navy and French navy patrol vessels ended without incident as protesting French fishermen left waters around the Channel Island on Thursday. It was the threat by French maritime minister Annick Girardin that France, a Nato ally and defence partner, may cut off Jersey’s electricity supplies that caused outrage, however. While power generated from its own La Collette Power Station and back-up generators on Queen’s Road would allow Jersey to survive any blockage for a week or so, after that it would be “lights out”.
Appeasing militant French fishermen is not the only problem facing Macron’s Government, as France finds itself trying to contain a ”blending together of generalised anti government unrest’ caused by three controversial new laws.
The global security law proposes to dramatically increase surveillance powers among private, state and security forces and is being resented by BLM supporters who claim it will protect police against brutality cases; the anti-separatist law will, apart from control foreign funding of religious communities ban civil servants from wearing any religious symbols and the climate reforms are still attracting so-called yellow vest protests.
As he grapples to keep Marie Le Pen at bay in next year’s presidential elections critics in France have suggested that attacks against “Perfidious Albion” by Macron, now the EU’s most influential leader on foreign policy may be needed.
But last night analysts from Sibylline, a UK threat assessment firm which advises the British Government, said France would soon find itself isolated in Europe if it sanctioned such a move.
Labour Party
Mail
Keir Starmer sacked Angela Rayner as Labour Party chairwoman and campaigns co-ordinator tonight over Thursday’s dismal election fiasco, in a move that looked certain to plunge the party into a new civil war.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP appeared to pay the price for overseeing the election debacle but was removed by the leadership the day after Sir Keir said he would personally take the blame for a series of reverses on Thursday.
Anneliese Dodds is expected to be the next high-profile victim of the reshuffle this week, with Rachael Reeves, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, the favourite to replace her, according to The Sunday Times.
In a sign of the bitter war at the heart of the party, opponents leaked details of Ms Rayner’s use of first class rail tickets to the Sunday Times – with her allies hitting back to claim she only did so for safety reasons after the murder of Sarah Everard.
Ms Rayner is a survivor from the Corbyn era and is also deputy leader, an elected position Sir Keir cannot remove her from. But he does have the power to remove her from her other roles.
However, the defenestration of the party’s most senior woman – who represents a Northern seat – from a key role is likely to spark a backlash from all sides of the party.
One usually supportive Labour MP said: ‘Not the best idea. She has been useless in the campaigning role, but then so has his own office.’
And a frustrated moderate MP said: ‘His office is full of political incompetents who act like they are in an edition of the West Wing without any political antenna. They make no attempt to connect with the PLP and think elected politicians are an inconvenience.’
Meanwhile from the left of the party former shadow chancellor John McDonnell piled in. ‘Keir Starmer said yesterday that he took full responsibility for the election result in Hartlepool & other losses. Instead today he’s scapegoating everyone apart from himself. This isn’t leadership it’s a cowardly avoidance of responsibility,’ he tweeted.
Speaking on Friday, leader Sir Keir said he was ‘bitterly disappointed’ with the results and vowed to take responsibility and to fix Labour’s election woes.
Times
Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has removed Angela Rayner as party chairwoman and will sack Anneliese Dodds, the shadow chancellor, as he tries to reset his leadership after a drubbing at the polls.
Rayner, the deputy leader, was axed from her role as Labour chairwoman and elections co-ordinator, reigniting a civil war with the left of the party.
Her wings were clipped by Starmer in a face-to-face meeting at the party’s headquarters in Westminster after criticism that she failed to deliver a coherent strategy for the elections. The leader is also understood to blame her for hostile briefings.
Rayner, who is the first casualty of Starmer’s reshuffle, will remain in her position as deputy leader, which is an elected position.
Telegraph
Sir Keir Starmer was on Saturday night told by senior leftwing Labour MPs to “look in a mirror” for someone to blame for the party’s dismal election results as he sacked his chairman.
Sir Keir began a major reshuffle of his top team, removing Angela Rayner as his party chairman, prompting an outcry from leftwing Labour MPs.
However he was unable to remove Ms Rayner from his top team altogether because her position as deputy leader is elected by the membership.
One former party adviser likened Sir Keir to Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader who was forced out of his party before he got the chance to fight a general election.
The adviser told The Sunday Telegraph that the problem with Sir Keir is that he “actually isn’t a politician. He has done four or five years as an MP, he has absolutely no roots”.
The adviser added: “He seems out of control of himself. He seems to have lost any semblance of how to manage a political party, which is very similar to how Iain Duncan Smith became in the last days of his leadership.
London
Express
SADIQ KHAN was nursing a bruised ego last night after being re-elected as London Mayor with a reduced mandate.
Labour had been confident of an easy victory in the capital, expecting Mr Khan to return to City Hall with an increase in support for voters. The contest ended closer than anticipated, with the Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey exceeding expectations.
Mr Khan’s campaign team had been hopeful they could secure more than 50 percent of the vote, winning the contest in the first round of voting – a feat never achieved in London.
In the end the Labour incumbent was forced to rely on votes redistributed from smaller parties to see him over the line.
On first preference votes, Mr Khan won a 40 percent share – down four points on 2016 – compared to Mr Bailey’s 35 percent.
In the run off round, Mr Khan won 55 percent of the vote, with his Conservative challenger winning 45 percent.
Mail
Sadiq Khan pledged to ‘build bridges’ with Boris Johnson’s government after winning a second term as Mayor of London and surviving having his majority slashed by former rank outsider Shaun Bailey.
The Labour incumbent will serve a truncated new three-year term after winning the election that was postponed from last year due to the pandemic.
But he was pushed all the way by Mr Bailey, who until yesterday had been given little hope of getting anywhere close to him.
Mr Khan tonight polled 1,206,034 votes to Mr Bailey’s 977, 601, a majority of 228,433. With second preference votes included Mr Khan won 55 per cent of the vote, down from 57 per cent in 2016.
Trailing behind them were Laurence Fox who finished in sixth place and will be forced to repay his deposit after receiving only 1.8 per cent, below the required five per cent.
In a sign that will please the Tories, Mr Khan’s lead over Mr Bailey is narrower than the 14-point win he achieved over Tory Zac Goldsmith in 2016.
However, it may raise questions about how well the Tories could have done if they had put more effort into supporting Mr Bailey. Boris Johnson and his most senior ministers were noticeable by their lack of appearances with him during his campaign, while making repeated visits to Hartlepool and other targets.
In a speech from City Hall Mr Bailey said: ‘As I went through these, for me what was two years of campaigning, one feeling felt familiar to me, one challenge had always felt the same.
‘And that was the feeling of being written off – by pollsters, by journalists, by fellow politicians.
‘But it’s no surprise to me that Londoners didn’t write me off.’
Sun
SADIQ Khan has been reelected as London Mayor after beating out his rival Shaun Bailey.
It comes after an overnight scare for the Labour incumbent when the race for City Hall proved much tighter than expected.
Khan won by 55.2% to Bailey’s 44.8% after other candidates were eliminated for a second round of voting.
Khan took 40 per cent of the first round votes, just five per cent more than his Tory rival.
Some pre-election polls projected Mr Khan to cruise to a first round victory with more than 50 per cent of ballots – but Bailey has done far better than his party did in 2016.
With all first preferences counted, Sadiq Khan won 1,013,721 votes (40.0 per cent) and Shaun Bailey won 893,051 (35.3 per cent).
After all second preferences counted, Khan ended with 1,206,034 and Bailey with 977,601.
The result will be a glimmer of hope to the Labour Party after it received a drubbing in local elections in England, losing control of a host of councils and a humiliating defeat in the Hartlepool by-election.
Evening Standard
Sadiq Khan won a second term as London mayor tonight after securing an ultimately decisive victory over Shaun Bailey.
Labour incumbent Mr Khan polled 1,206,034 votes – the second highest total in the history of the London mayoralty – compared with 977,601 for his Tory challenger.
This gave Mr Khan a majority of 228,433, again the second highest on record. Mr Khan holds the records for most votes (1,310,143) and biggest winning majority (315,529) from his inaugural victory in 2016 against Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith.
The vote-counting went to a second round run-off after no candidate managed to secure 50 per cent of the votes after first preferences were counted.
Animal sentience
Telegraph
Animals with a backbone will have a legal right to feel happiness and suffering in a Government drive to raise welfare standards in Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech.
An Animal Sentience Bill will enshrine in law that animals are aware of their feelings and emotions, and can experience joy and pleasure, as well as pain and suffering.
“Sentience” will apply to “vertebrate animals – anything with a spinal cord”, Environment secretary George Eustice told The Telegraph in an exclusive interview below.
An existing committee of experts and civil servants in Defra will be tasked with ensuring Government’s policies take into account animal sentience.
Ministers were criticised in 2018 when the duty was not carried across into UK law from the European Union after Brexit.
The Government wants to make the UK a world leader in animal welfare and laws that protect animals form the centrepiece of this week’s Queen’s Speech.
As well as an Animal Sentience Bill, an Animals Abroad Bill will ban the import of trophies from animal hunting. A third measure – a Kept Animals Bill – will stop live animal exports and ban families from keeping primates as pets.
Rail travel
Telegraph
Rail disruption is expected to continue for a second day and into the week ahead after services were cancelled across the country due to cracks in some trains.
Hitachi 800 trains were pulled from lines on Saturday as a “precautionary measure” after the fault was found in some trains, and Great Western Railway (GWR) and London North Eastern Railway (LNER) have advised people not to travel on Sunday.
Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told BBC Breakfast: “With the inspections completed initially by the end of today, we are still expecting some disruption to carry on for a few days.
“It’s impossible for me to say exactly how long that is going to take, but we are obviously going through this as quickly as possible, but we don’t want to rush it.
“We want to ensure that all of those trains are thoroughly inspected and cleared and put into service when things are ready, but there may well be a knock-on effect for some of those timetables into next week.”
He said the cracks – measuring millimetres – are on the “lifting points on the underside of the carriages used for maintenance”.
Mr Nisbet said: “It’s fair to say this didn’t pose any particular danger to passengers that were travelling on those trains but if you don’t treat these kind of issues early on then they have the potential to develop.”
Times
Intercity rail services on some of England’s busiest lines face “prolonged” disruption after cracks were found on train carriages’ chassis.
On a day of widespread cancellations, Chris Heaton-Harris, the rail minister, warned that “disruption is likely for a prolonged period”, particularly on Great Western Railway (GWR). It was feared that most of the company’s intercity services would not run today and disruption would continue this week.
GWR’s long-distance routes run from London Paddington to Penzance, Bristol and south Wales. The company suspended its intercity services yesterday.
London North Eastern Railways (LNER) told passengers not to travel on the east coast main line from London to Scotland.
It’s Marine Le Pen, not Marie.
Yes, it’ll be interesting what happens to Halal and Kosher slaughter.
What’s betting exceptions will be made?
Don’t fish have backbones?
Since the labour government after the war, Labour governments have irresponsibly passed and supported huge country changing bills without consideration of their impact on the future. At the same time all governments have used the inflated costs as a base line to build on and expand their empires. The resultant thousands of little empires still each growing like mad leads us into a Civil Service, Public service, and hundreds of often huge personal empires. All living off hundreds of taxes and state monopolies:– little ones like Museums and libraries etc to massive ones like DVLC, and probably University Fees. ( Which is essentially a tax on familys to pay or give away to bureaucrat lecturers.)
All this is supported by probably millions of State purchased computers for makeworkers.
Up till 1990’s The Paperwork bureaucracies were understood by us all, and more or less controlled. At least by the private sector. Every factory had its own bureaucracy, understood and necessarily minimal.The prediliction for expansion viciously clamped down on. Everybody in the firm knew what was happening even if they weren’t interested. This has now also disappeared, as nobody in the known universe understands what, after a year ortwo, the programmers/ it crowd/experts know what it’s doing.
This total lack of any understanding at all fuels the countrys decay. But enriches many But principally the bottom feeders off tax, and other countries.
And that’s where we are now and there’s nowhere to drop.Particularly there is no-one left who knows what where or etc is. And the funniest thing I know ( Excepting the vaulted self opinion of our executive) is wikipedia and its worshipers.
TGS I think you’re “right on the button” with that comment.
Except I use Wikipedia quite often. Quality varies of course. It’s true that paper records were much better understood. Also it has been known for many years that bureaucracies inevitably grow and proliferate.
Computers are not understood at all by most people that use them and they are certainly open to much misuse.
Still, we can’t go backwards and I don’t think I’d want to on that one.
Education now, Frederica – that’s one we should unwind isn’t it!
Well Pauline you do know my views on education!!!! My main agreement with TGS tended towards the main part of his comment and not so much about Wikipaedia. Many of us consult Wiki as a first port of call but the danger is that it can be taken as being the only ‘fount of wisdom’ and people look no further for in-depth study or for corroboration of facts (which have sometimes been found to have been ‘adjusted’!
Re Wiki; About a year ago Wiki described as “terrorists” all those who called the TMay Brexit Withdrawal Agreement a “Surrender Treaty.”
I took a photo of it, which I still have.
I drew attention to this in comments etc at the time; then Wiki changed it. Because of my comments or not I don’t know.
Isn’t that what Ferguson and his pals did when they first wanted to set up models for Covid?
Parkinson’s Law. Basically, ‘Work expands to fit the time available’. Just looked into it. (Including Wikipedia!)
Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote loads of books. Some about the civil service and other bureaucracies. Also T.G.S., about the dreaded COMMITTEES! Many of your ideas are echos of Parkinson’s views and they are very true of life now.
He formulated other ‘laws’ which look interesting but I suspect we are able to see these things with our own common sense.
Northern Ireland Protocol:
Another Boris cock-up sneaked in behind closed doors and a shout of “Brexit is Done”. He should resign.
You’re so right Jack. Boris Johnson demonstrates his ability to trample over anything he meets with his two left feet! He has about as much diplomatic and political finesse as a steamroller! He should resign but……politicians don’t do that any more! They all brazen it out and cling on with their fingernails. No chance of him being eased out at the moment though is there! Technically has has just had a big win with all the sheep running home to Momma because the Kneeler and his arrogance has proved to be so utterly useless! Thats a pity because I was reckoning on the Cummings denouements being the killer punch!
Animal Sentience
What Nonsense, what monumental Rubbish, what an assault on the intelligence of human beings..
What an incredible example of super posture posing.
They didn’t incorporate it in 2018 so this can safely be put down to the “Carrie” calamity
It couldn’t have a better named sponsor than George Useless” unless it was George Spineless.
I hope the Queen doesn’t die of paroxysms of laughter when she reads it out.
Oh, it’s not all Carrie, it’s Prince Charles intercession is?
Well of course they must have got the information from somewhere
I remember there was a programme years ago on Esther Rantzen where the chap reckoned his dog could speak, but it was a bit limited all it could say was “sausages” mind you, it did express a look of happiness at the prospect of a feed of sausages later, but I’m afraid it didn’t quite convey its feeling of frustration that his owner was unable to reciprocate and speak “dog”
Final remark.
Will we be able to prosecute that big black guard dog with those big staring eyes and foaming mouth, obviously expressing “hate”.?
Oh! It’s a black dog you say, oh say no more!
Sorry Roger Turner. I could fall out with you over that one. For instance live export for slaughter is totally unnecessary cruelty.
Indeed Pauline.
Sorry Pauline I don’t think you have to fall out with me but I agree with you, but I didn’t” say about “the Animals Abroad bill”, but I do regard the idea that one can codify and legislate animals (or plants because that will shortly follow in my opinion), I don’t think one should as I say codify and confuse, perhaps feelings of animal happiness, joy, pleasure,sadness or suffering with that of humans.
I know I love to see little lambs gambolling in the fields, but I also know they will end up as just another mutton chop. They are produced and farmed for a purpose (man’s survival, well an element of it. I don’t see its vegan replacement as a soya make believe and anyway if we went totally. Vegan, that would lead to millions of unneccary deaths of livestock anyway)
I don’t think animals or man wishes to proceed to total extinction.
So sorry I do still regard those proposing to enact Sentient animal bills as sick postures, but that is not to say I am an advocate of animal cruelty in any form and particularly I regard the Halal process as particularly cruel
I also realise that my brand of humour may be outdated or not to the taste of everybody and if I have offended you, I am truly sorry, particularly as we are usually such good pals on ID
Roger these spats are engineered by those very people who put out the likes of these latest edicts! They know that it is going to provoke contention and that is their aim! I believe in ‘moderation in all things’. Logical thought should always trump the sensationalist ‘bull at a gate’ impulses that have (much of the time) not been thought through. The objectives of such actions, largely, being to provoke argument and unrest!
Animals should always be treated with care and consideration. I do not agree with, or see the point of live export of animals. If they are intended for food then why not kill them before export and chill or freeze the carcasses. If it is to improve stock and bloodlines why not use artificial insemination? (We use ‘in vitro’ with human beings for goodness sake!!!)
I am totally against the so-called religious killing rites used by the more barbaric persons on the planet! Such rites should never be countenanced in supposedly civilised countries!
The fact remains that there must be laws to protect animals because some human-beings nature seems to tend towards cruelty. People who ill treat their pets (or other peoples pets for that matter) should be dealt with severely. Such people are not always from the poorer classes. There are those in the more well-off echelons whose attitude to the animal kingdom is decidedly at odds with decent society!
Eee, flippin’ ‘eck! I wasn’t really expecting to ‘fall out’ with anyone!
Does anyone else remember Theresa May’s stupid 2017 G.E.? Thinking to catch a few more votes she promised to resurrect the ‘Hunting with Dogs’ issue!
In the present case Useless Eustice is covering up one of his blunders. And, notice, expanding a committee to deal with it.
B.T.W. Harry is right. Fish do have a backbone! Not quite sure how the committee will deal with that one.
Frederica thanks for your intercession but this isn’t just a trial kite put up by those engineering dissention etc to mask the latest edicts.
These are actual items which as the Telegraph they report a conversation with the Minister George Useless will be in the Queen’s Speech – not ”maybe’ included..
My point is
That maybe spined animals do exhibit characteristics common to humans such as happiness, joy, pleasure or sadness, whos’s to tell certainly not the animals, but I do regard any sign of there being any legal recognition that that makes humans the same as inanimate animals.as at best mischievous.
I know there are all analysed pointers that perhaps they and even plants can have upwards of 80 percent sharing.of these pointers, But it doesn’t make them humans and it never will.and if the human race is to survive, we must never seek to make it so.,
Oh and yes I’m against animals travelling abroad, just to be butchered there, but I cannot really see the need to prevent it for breeding purposes etc by the use of artificial insemination, in my opinion that should only be a last resort or used on special occasions, but it would definitely be a retrograde (and eventually fatal) step for man.
Anyway we regularly send race horses abroad for major races and even back in the 1950s we carried two breeding pigs on board ship from Liverpool to Lagos and I have never seen two more contented pigs roll over when the port vet cuddled (palpated ?) their undercarriages and inserted the thermometer up their rectums (recta?)
So no, official recognition of supposed animals sentient possessions are a step too far and to my mind dangerous to humanity in the long run and I believe in the present circumstances, just another spoke in the “woke wheel of steps to tyranny” and must be exposed as such.
Anyway why put such a divisive subject in the QS at this present pregnant moment?
Brexit
(Express) “THE UK Government has signalled it is prepared to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol to protect peace as it pins the blame for instability in the province on the European Union.”….
The Protocol on Northern Ireland is part of Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement. He may gradually realise that his political career depends on delivering a genuine Brexit rather than a BRINO.
Let’s hope that he eventually comes to see that he can only clear the road to a real Brexit by revoking both his Withdrawal and his Trade & Cooperation Agreements. Brussels would never have agreed to either if they allowed a genuine Brexit.
Almost laughable isn’t it Ralph, that the E.U.’s continuing warfare against Boris’s Brino might, with luck force him to deliver a real Brexit.
Pauline, let’s hope that enough people notice that we don’t have a full Brexit when the WA & TCA stop the UK from making any free trade deals it wants with countries around the world outside the EU.
As well as those two agreements keeping part of the UK in the EU’s Single Market & Customs Union, behind an EU tariff barrier along the Irish Sea that ploughs right through the UK’s internal market.
Re London Mayor election: whoever oils and maintains the Tower Hamlets printing press must have been slacking on the job.
Re animal sentience, how will this impact on halal and kosher slaughter? And battery farms ? And animals transported to the Continent for slaughter?
Yes, Mary. How will the Tories fudge the halal and kosher slaughter issue?
Do supermarkets still stock ‘enhanced’ battery cage eggs? My local Co-op only sells free range and barn eggs.
Animals also have to travel very long distances in this country as smaller slaughter houses closed down as the new- build super slaughterhouses put them out of business through their economies of scale to meet supermarket product volumes and because of the closure of so many butchers shops on our high streets who kept the local slaughterhouses going.
It goes back to 1997. BLiar proposed that livestock should be sent to “The nearest Precticable Auction Mart and from there to “The nearet practicable slaughter House”… Farmers applauded.
Civil servants then gold-plated EU directives which resulted in many small slaughter-houses being shut down…. Result animals travel further than ever..
Add to that the supermarket’s dedicated slaughter-houses whereby animals travel further again.
Thank you for that clarification and for raising the point oft missed by many, that there is little the EU can teach our lot about red tape.
Whilst bombed out Germany was exporting more goods than the UK by 1952 our civil servants felt there was far more urgency keeping Britain on rations. The enemy is within!!
Thanks dickatbarn. I’ve noticed before, you are a farmer after my own heart.
Something else to hate Bliar for then Dickatbarn. There seems to be no end to the trail of damage and disaster that he has inflicted upon Britain. And….. now he’s advising the tory’s!!!!!!
Here’s another thing; don’t Klaus Schwab and co want to stop meat eating altogether?
I was reading about the murky depths of Labour, mostly Bliar’s- and theTories’ -, dirty deals selling off British assets to Soros etc , including QuinetiQ, at a low price enabling Soros to make a huge profit.
… Waitrose is apparently the only supermarket group offering non so-called ‘halal’ meat — en excellent reason to boycott the rest …
You might like to check my maths. Of the 2,531,£357 first forecast Khan got 1,013,721.The turnout was 42.1%. So a mere 16% voted for him.
Totally agree ‘re halal and kosher meat. Time to start a new petition on the subject I reckon.
Ceri. So much for PR being democratic then?
Yes please on the petition keep us informed.
Interesting questions mary. I would hope it would stop live export for slaughter – should have been done years ago to my mind. I wondered whether we still exported any beef breeds for stud purposes but that has probably been long discontinued.
I hadn’t thought about halal and kosher but it would be great if it did bring about bans, to my mind. As for battery farms and eggs that are not free range I can already hear the arguments along the lines of look how happy they are! Ditto for dairy cattle that spend their whole lives indoors.
Oddly enough, I suspect Carrie Symonds may have influenced this move and for once been a good influence. Vastly outweighed by her probable bad influence over the Green Blobbery throwing us back into the dark ages.
Banning Halal; what a great way to pee off the Muslims. Bring it on and be sure to reward any backyard violations with a choice of many years imprisonment or deportation.
‘pee off the Muslims’. Yes Jack that thought had crossed my mind!