On 13/12/2017 13:20, harry wrote:
Just watched PMQs on the BBC.
One topic was rough sleepers & why there are so many.
No-one answered the obvious.
Immigrants.
Both sleeping rough and taking up social housing.

Putins sidekick still talking ******** then.

On 23/12/2017 13:05, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Fredxx wrote:
On 15/12/2017 10:42, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Fredxx wrote:
And I'll give you another clue. You'll find rough sleepers in places
where there isn't a housing shortage.

My only prejudice is you have denied a housing shortage contributes to
sleeping rough.


Pedantic as ever. You don't care a stuff about the reasons the majority
sleep rough.

You don't have a clue.

But just want a possible minority reason to be the important
one. For the obvious reason.

You seem to be in denial that demand for housing, largely through
immigration has made homes unaffordable for many.

The housing shortage effects far more deserving cases than rough
sleepers. Let's get that sorted first.

That's quite a statement from you. Are you normally this insensitive to
peoples' plights? Is it a Remoan thing?

As one who claims to be concerned about rough sleepers as a priority - and
rather obviously a Brexit nutter too, you might ponder this. :-

Estimated cost to end rough sleeping - £180m

Estimated cost to change passport from EU to UK - £480m

The cost of the passport change is £0.

Yes the contract to redesign and print them over the contract period is
£480m, but for security reasons this is done every 5 years anyway, so
there is no additional cost. On top of that, people have to pay for
their passports, so the government recoups the money too.

SteveW

On 23/12/2017 18:56, Terry Casey wrote:
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says...


Estimated cost to change passport from EU to UK - £480m


Why?

The present EU model is still valid and will continue to be
until the original expiry date.

If you want another passport you will have to renew it in the
same way and the only thing that will change are the colour of
the cover and a few word - mainly deletions.

Both befrore and after Brexit, new supplies of passports will
have to be ordered by The Passport Office at regular
intervals, so the changes should cost nothingpence to apply.

He's bought into a story that was going around some months ago and made
the headlines in many papers. They'd simply ignored the fact that for
security reasons a new design is used every 5 years and that when the
existing contract expires in 2019, the new contract to design and print
for 5 years will cost £480m - which would happen whether or not we left
the EU and happily means that there is no cost at all to the colour and
wording changes. The papers made out that it was all a cost of Brexit
rather than a regular contract renewal.

SteveW