gc, when the EU calculates our tax contribution as a nation, they include the crime industry.

I think we need to demand destination only locks on big vehicles. So the migrants can't open the back in Calais, you need special equipment at either end. Everything in the lorry is prebooked. Run lorries through an undercarriage jet wash (for contaminents and insects of course;-) Get all the big transporters on board the system and then treat the rest with suspicion. Ramp up stop and search as organisation allows. Make fines big enough to make stops worthwhile. Don't hold stuff up but put the non conformists out of business.

All visiters to have health insurance and vehicle insurance (if applicable). Ticket suppliers to check that they're valid for upwards of a month. No insurance, no entry. Ditto out going trips. No whiney tourists needing to be rescued. Return trip tickets only.

Technology is good but smart bins would fail in a week. Between the weather, rough handling and the incomprehensible rules for waste, they'd not function.

"Ukraine’s Poroshenko sues BBC over Trump pay-for-access story as election looms"

https://www.rt.com/news/439088-poroshenko-libel-lawsuit-bbc/

"The president of Ukraine is suing British broadcaster BBC over a report that he paid $400,000 for a chance to meet Donald Trump. The news comes months before presidential election, which is set to be tough for Petro Poroshenko.
The BBC report, which Poroshenko’s lawyers claim was defamatory, came in May and said that the meeting between the leader of Ukraine and the US president in June 2017 was organized in a pretty roundabout way. The Ukrainian side paid Michael Cohen, then-the personal lawyer of Trump, at least $400,000 for an embarrassingly short two minutes and a handshake. The best the Ukrainian diplomats and registered lobbyist could have arranged at the time was reportedly a brief photo-op with the US president.

The lawsuit filed with London High Court, which was first reported by the Daily Telegraph, claims that the story of the pay-off was not true and stressed that BBC’s failure to retract it was particularly damaging to Poroshenko’s anti-corruption effort in Ukraine. Poroshenko’s lawyer confirmed the report to RT.

At the time, Poroshenko’s meeting with Trump (well before the freshly-elect US president met Russia’s Vladimir Putin!) was presented as “talks” and milked by his administration for political points at home. The impression was only somewhat spoiled by the aftermath, when the Ukrainian president had to give a press conference outside of the White House and without his host."

The original BBC report is here:

"Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks
By Paul Wood
BBC News, Kiev
23 May 2018"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44215656

Sep 22, 2018 at 4:13 PM | Supertroll

But what a boon for Eco Police if their plastic bins can issue fines via e-mail, the moment they detect the wrong sort of plastic being put in a bin, with a photo and GPS location.

Tomo, trouble comes when TrashcanLife connects with FoxNews and Buglife.

‘Most climate scientists regard a rise of 2oC as the point when global warming could become irreversible
and the effects dangerous. 
At current rates, we are on track for a rise of more than 3-4oC by the end of the century.’ //

So it's PROVEN 2C is 
- irreversible ?
- dangerous ?

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbcs-climate-change-facts-are-fiction by Harry Wilkinson

Sep 22, 2018 at 11:58 AM | stewgreen

It depends on whether you trust Climate Scientists to produce anything that should be relied on. They cannot be relied on to confirm what and when the +2°C actually relates to, and they will not accept anyone questioning their temperature records anyway.

Possibly, but they also allow insurance premiums to be steadily increased.
Sep 22, 2018 at 12:35 PM | Stoic

The Insurance Industry may pay out after big storms and floods in the UK, but the TV publicity is a free advert to justify their increased premiums as a consequence and larger profits in subsequent years.

The Insurance Industry does have access to information on areas deemed liable to flood. It also has access to its own databases of areas that have flooded. It does not take an expert in probability to work out that they have a good idea about areas NOT deemed liable to flood, and areas that have no history of claims for flooding.

Premiums are based on Post Codes. The Insurance Industry is quite capable of profiting out of high-risk Post Codes, whether the risk is storm, flood, frozen pipes, subsidence, theft etc. They increase the Premiums until policy holders decide it is too expensive, and then the Insurance Industry has no liability at all.

Sep 22, 2018 at 10:59 AM | stewgreen

I too listened in disbelief as the lady went unchallenged by the interviewer.

“Were the lies about hurricanes being caused by climate change to open up job opportunities in that world of billionaire sponsored green activity?”

Possibly, but they also allow insurance premiums to be steadily increased.