@afneil Mass immigration is in part the result of policy failures - lack of housing, poor maternity facilities, misdirected education - leading to a declining birth rate as well as success in prolonging old age.

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@DanMulhall A strangely dated view - I thought Ireland now had net immigration?

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@RupertMyers Why are returns on farming so low compared to asset value? Is it because agricultural land values are inflated by IHT exemption? It doesn’t make sense.

@NostalgiaFC1 @Dkarbowitz @Irishchutzpah And the means by which large parts of Western Europe became Christian, not least Scotland and parts of England.

@old_wino2 @SimonForrest11 Horace meant it. It took Owen to make it ‘The old Lie’. Difference between the classical pre-Christian world - with all its bloody splendour - and our world.

@danielmgmoylan Parricide? Who did he murder?

@RedCloudSundown @Dannybooboo0 @historyinmemes Compare and contrast with Africa and Asia, colonised by Europeans but where the inhabitants had been, for the most part, exposed to Western diseases.

@danielmgmoylan @ChrisGiles_ Not ‘snaffled’ 100% but subject to IHT at 40% if the rest of the estate is valued at more than £325k (or more if certain conditions are met). It was a useful way of avoiding IHT.

@nialloconghaile Changing to PR is key. It would ensure that governments reflected the majority, which has always been less extreme than Conservative administrations. A written constitution would also be desirable but would take a while to devise and would need the stability of PR.

@BEERG @DavidHenigUK Increasing elderly population, loss of £40bn tax revenue due to Brexit and poor growth prospects outside the EU.

@aigne_aighne By the time tourists reach Gaeltacht areas they will probably have got the hang of Irish names. So there would be far less of a problem.

@aigne_aighne Most English or other nationalities with no acquaintance of Irish would be totally flummoxed. Where is Dublin? How do you pronounce the names? I think the English versions of names should be retained for tourists alongside the Irish.

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Can someone tell me which provision of the ECHR prevents measures that eg Jenrick and Badenoch would like to see on immigration?

@JerryTaylor @ToryWipeout @supertanskiii It was a private school but Starmer’s place was state-funded. That continued until he left, although the school had stopped accepting state-funded pupils.

@LittleGrayCat @MichaelRosenYes @MaskedManOfMys1 @CelticKali No. France was always ruled by the King of France, to whom the King of England paid homage for his French possessions. Later kings had a claim to the French throne but that was never realised.

@MichaelRosenYes @MaskedManOfMys1 Ireland and Scotland were always separate kingdoms unlike Wales. There never was a unified UK in the way that France is.

@BestForBritain @MattBarbet I have an idea of Englishness - history good and bad, literature, language and sport. All a little less uniquely English by being successful internationally. But I'm not aware of that identity being suppressed.