The results in last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
Do some cars have a soul?
Yes - 46%
No - 14%
What on earth are you talking about? - 40%
It was a good turnout for such an off the wall question, so thanks to everybody who took part. I'm relieved to see that while I'm in a minority, it's a pretty big minority of 46%.
All I can say to those who voted 'No' or 'What on earth are you talking about?' is that you'll know it when you feel it. Not all cars have a soul anyway (and it's becoming less and less frequent with all the electronics nonsense they have nowadays) so perhaps you just haven't driven the right car.
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This week's Fun Online Poll goes back to a throwaway remark by Red Ken, that his successor as London mayor also proposed an amnesty for illegal immigrants. It's far beyond the remit of a London mayor to take such a step, but IHMO it would 'solve' nothing as you'd just get as many again coming in.
At the other extreme are people who reckon that it would be a good idea to round them all up and deport them, even though it is never quite clear to me how this is supposed to work on a practical level (let alone on a legal or moral level).
So that's this week's Fun Online Poll: "Which is the least insane policy on 'illegal immigrants' in the UK?"
Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.
It Makes No Difference
1 hour ago
7 comments:
One of the major causes of the the fall of the Roman Empire was mass inward migration (initially encouraged) coupled with debased currency, corruption and the disintegration of family units.
Sounds familiar?
In all seriousness, sailors believe in the soul of a yacht and to do things such as renaming the yacht is bad luck. More than that, it is an insult to the boat.
I once did that and admittedly, it was now called Steppenwolf. Now you might say that when it went onto the rocks in a storm, that was my bad sailing or guilt but i know what it really was ...
I was thinking about cow attacks.
@JH: Nicholas Monserrat wrote a short story "The Ship That Died of Shame" on that theme.
How do You deport thousands of unwanted immigrants? Easy - You get them to self deport by cracking down on their job chances and benefits. Unless they are EU immigrants, in which case you are stymied but then you should get out of the EU to solve that.
I like the Citizen's Dividend solution to "illegal immigrants". Pay a CD but only to people who have lived in the UK for 15 years or more, or whose parents have done so. That way the UK would become expensive for anyone to come to, while still remaining affordable for longterm residents. Other than that anyone could immigrate providing that they register their residency. So in principle there would be no such thing as illegal immigration but "chancers" would still be dissuaded from immigrating by the cost of living in the UK.
JH, in that case I accept my share of the blame. Or were you thinking about sea cows?
D, exactly. Under proper Georgism, gross rents go up and net incomes of residents go up even more. Yer foreigner would be priced out (we can argue over 15 year limit).
As for "asylum seekers", they can remain under the protection of the Crown, but in another country, where the cost of living is much, much lower.
B, you wouldn't be playing the old 'value for taxpayers' money' card, would you? Or taking their claim that they want to escape their despotic rules (true in many cases) rather than get a cushy life at our expense (not true in many cases)? Tsk tsk.
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