I knew Hapag Lloyd were but not the others. How recent is this? Since last week? Vessels to and from Israel was supposed to be the target of the Houthi.
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I knew Hapag Lloyd were but not the others. How recent is this? Since last week? Vessels to and from Israel was supposed to be the target of the Houthi.
Most have announced just at the turn of the month and others recently, I've got 2 containers going around there bound for the UK. One with MSC and one with Maersk. Pricing is starting to increase on container, so we'll see a ripple effect in the cost of goods from around May onwards.
Cheers for that.
I looked on Maersk website and looked for a shipping time from Tangier to Singapore which they're still showing as 3.5 weeks for a vessel leaving in 2 days, ie through Suez.
Presume they're hoping/expecting a quick solution. Or will it escalate.
I had a colleague in my team today, the day after 5 asylum seekers died trying to cross The Channel, make a joke about how ‘we can defend the Red Sea but not the Channel. What I’d do is tell people we’re sinking the boats and then sink the next 20 that we find.’
Then, when challenged on the ethics, he chuckled, ‘I don’t care about the ethics of it, I care about the results.’
Turns out I know one of the 22%.
Then, when challenged on the ethics, he chuckled, ‘I don’t care about the ethics of it, I care about the results.’
Turns out I know one of the 22%.
Do you have a HR department?
Stopping the boats is a good thing, people really don't want asylum seekers making a dangerous crossing to get here. The question is how. Labour are talking about processing people in France and opening legal routes, not shipping people off to Rwanda.
What a cnut.
Labour want to offshore people into just another country that isn’t Rwanda.
Also the “experts” they are talking to like David Blunkett are the ones who originally came up with the Rwanda type policy -https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/29/tony-blair-rwanda-style-asylum-plan-2003
Britons living abroad regain right to vote in UK elections as 15-year rule ends
Change to franchise brings UK in line with other major democracies which allow lifelong voting rights
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-to-vote-in-uk-elections-as-15-year-rule-ends
Change to franchise brings UK in line with other major democracies which allow lifelong voting rights
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-to-vote-in-uk-elections-as-15-year-rule-ends
I don't see an issue per se in stopping the boats but to be some sort of society wide zeitgeist, as if it's a fight for suffrage or emancipation, is weird.
I don't think offshoring but I think processing people who arrive here undocumented, is fine. It's the turning it into a political football that winds me up.
I don't think the people Starmer is trying to appeal to with those statements care about the safety of immigrants.
I agree with your point but the question is does Starmer need to parrot anti-immigrant language to promote such policy?
Yeah it’s a tiny tiny number of people and a issue that effects no one in this country. Any British government could easily created safe route and have these people looked after.
As it’s been mentioned it’s bottom of the barrel stuff from a political system in deep decline and unwilling to accept any reforms.
What's this redrawing of the boundaries then? Does that make it harder for a Labour election win? I thought they were still so far ahead in the polling.
This cretin still thinks it’s all about the boats
The other option is to fix the economy, The NHS, schools, and crime.
Let's face it they aren't going to do that.
Just reading about that.
Boundary changes mean Labour needs bigger swing than 1997 to win general election
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/16/boundary-changes-labour-general-election/
EDIT: Also
“The Conservatives have made a net gain of seven seats from the new boundaries; Labour has a net loss of two seats. The Liberal Democrats lose three seats and Plaid Cymru drops from four seats to just two.”
Source?
From what I know, some carriers are sending part of their fleets through Red Sea and whilst continuing to send other vessels within their fleets around COGH. The carriers don't tend to own all vessels within their fleet - they charter a lot from other companies/owners. It is predominantly the vessels with links (or potential links) to those friendly with Israel which are being diverted. Same applies to breakbulk, RoRo carriers too. Prices are most definitely rising in terms of surcharges and peak season costs being enforced, which will all flow down to the consumer.
Used to be in the international trading business. Retired for seven years but it got me thinking. Out of the 10s of thousands of containers we shipped all around the world, so little of it went through the Red Sea, definitely a lot less than 10% but that's because we didn't trade much between Europe and the Far East. And the US ship very little through there and the UK (nor the EU) not a great deal. GOGH adds ten days to the journey. See how this pans out.
The source my friend is the main news media. Both the BBC and Sky covered the operation and even though it was clear that just the US and UK jets were involved, you can easily check this out.
Well spotted Paul...it's that insane world that is taking the Tories down the rabbit hole!
With Starmer laying back watching and chewing on a carrot and saying " What's up Doc"
Well spotted Paul...it's that insane world that is taking the Tories down the rabbit hole!
With Starmer laying back watching and chewing on a carrot and saying " What's up Doc"
It's not what he said according to other posts - "We've lost control of our borders and we'll stop the boats" is more like it.
Strange that the French vessel Languedoc has intercepted and destroyedd drone missiles on more than one occasion..
It happens after a census to ensure the seats have equal number of registered voters. It is just unfortunate the new House of Commons is drawn in a way more favourable to the Tories. The Electoral Commission, who redraw the boundaries, have to do so politically neutrally, unlike the US for example.
Simon Clarke claims, if mainstream parties do not stop the boats, extremists will fill gap
He then looked in the mirror before he read what an illegal immigrant actually is.
He then looked in the mirror before he read what an illegal immigrant actually is.
Simon Case - ‘shit, I was meant to be on the sick’.
The Tories seem too split to remain as one party now. It's got no resemblance to what it was a decade ago and that still doesn't appease idiots like those two. Splitting the vote of the right for the foreseeable would be a great outcome for the UK though.
Is this the illegal "illegal immigration bill" lobby under British law or is it the illegal "illegal immigration bill" lobby under International law?
General Election, then?
Country is on it's knees and these fecking clowns are acting out this farce.
Exactly that.
The country is broken and nothing works properly. But the Tories carry on playing their infantile games as if the HoC is the centre of the universe and nothing else matters apart from their Rwanda obsession.
Clearly the most important issue facing this country is not being able to spend millions of pounds flying asylum seekers to Rwanda. Second only to the travesty that the goverment can't legislate on what they determine is true or not.
The sky is green. Say otherwise and you're breaking the law.
The sky is green. Say otherwise and you're breaking the law.
The sky is green and Rwanda is a safe place.