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Jac, what’s the latest on the Duggan/Bryn Llys story? You were following it so closely, and residents of Nebo were counting on you for honest reporting – but all seems to have gone quiet. They were ordered to demolish the bridge. Did that happen? Did the council or ‘powers that be’ enforce the court ruling?

Young Rhys talked sense, the Jersey/Guernsey system was briefly aired, but I got no reassurance from squirmy Eluned Morgan on her big TV screen, and, yes, an overheated Rhun let out copious amounts of steam through his nostrils. Like Dafis, I’m only halfway through it, though, so hopefully that tourism guy will get pummelled before the end of the show. Betsan Powys looked fetching in leggings and ankle boots.

At least they’re actually debating the issue on the media, but it needs a bigger stage and an anglophone audience as well, otherwise it’ll be in the long grass after a pretend-debate in the Senedd, with few the wiser outside the affected areas.

There is a myth that most are fleeing Syria or Libya. The top ten countries of origin in 2019 was Iran, Albania, Iraq, Pakistan, Eritrea, Afghanistan, India, Vietnam and China. While applying for asylum, 94% of claimants, 41,388 people, were Section 95, in receipt of both accommodation (social housing) and subsistence (benefits). These would not be housed in military barracks, nor homeless, nor destitute. 4,077 were Section 4, allowed to reside in the homes of wealthy relatives not eligible for benefits.

The pre-Covid asylum statistics published by the Westminster Government is here.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2020/how-many-people-do-we-grant-asylum-or-protection-to

There is a myth that asylum seekers were held in ‘detention centres’. These are people where the claim has failed and awaiting repatriation.

The ‘surge’ in boat arrivals is due to repatriation not being possible due to Covid and the traffickers taking advantage of this opportunity. These are to people who will be accommodated at Penally. The majority of these will disappear, off the radar of the ‘signing on’ process. These are people who have NOT claimed asylum (Section 95 above) or are uncooperative with the process, many of whom have previously been deported and re-entered, and will be free to leave at any time.

This has implications for the transmission of Covid-19 within the community.

I’ll put that on my sidebar!

As TR himself put it: ‘The Internet is like the New Dworkin Times-Advocate – you can’t believe half of what you read on it.’

I could never work out that date so an outlay of $30,000 would be foolish.

Make that US$30,000, and your beans will be delivered in a tasteful casket hand-wrought from sturdy laminated double-strength Ryvita. For best results, plant on Walpurgisnacht in a year whose binary equivalent when transliterated spells an anagram of ‘Alun Cairns’.

As a matter of principle, I couldn’t possibly deal in Euros.

In that case, you’ll be keen to buy some magic beans which I can source for you. Just transfer €20,000 to the account of the Mellifont-Stifftung (Europa) SA, Quatschgaße 23, Lichtenstein, and your beans will be delivered to your door by one of our couriers.