Solar panels on the wall. Great imagination...

Next week the Man-baby's imagination is going to gift the world with this round thingy he likes to call "the wheel".

"I dreamed up that solar panel idea all on my own, it was me! Me! Great! My idea! It just came to me! Just a few months after the WSJ ran an article suggesting solar panels on the wall, and after some of the design proposals included solar panels. Oh, and MAGA!"

At the same rally Trump said he would pass a law to stop immigrants receiving public benefits during their first 5 years, but that has been the law since 1996! Maybe he is planning some fine tuning

I have the impression that most of Trump's administration now simply ignore him and get on with their own work?

For example;
U.S. officials pressed China to get tougher with North Korea during high-level meetings in Washington on Wednesday involving Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Asked about the Trump Twitter statement “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!”

Mattis said Trump represents “the American peoples’ frustration with the regime that provokes and provokes and provokes and basically plays outside the rules, plays fast and loose with the truth.”

I assume Mattis was talking about the N. Korea regime, not the US one.

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Seems there is yet another basic difference between UK and US political views.

This week the Democrats failed to win the long established Republican Congress seats they were contesting and now the US newspapers portray this as a boost for the Republicans.

In the UK a 20 point swing shown by several election results against a party would be seen as a boost for the other party even if they lost! Look at the fuss about the recent Labour result although their swing was far smaller

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has rejected overtures from United States President Donald Trump to increase jobs in the US, citing work visa restrictions as a reason.

In a newspaper interview, chief executive Joe Jimenez said Switzerland and Europe were more attractive for the firm.

The comments follow a White House meeting in January between Trump and several pharma bosses, including Jimenez who leads the industry lobby group PhRMA.
Trump called on the industry to reduce drug prices and to build more jobs in the US.

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Gee, didn't think of that now did you Trump. Restrict work visas means less jobs - gosh what a shock!

Theresa May needs to learn that too,
She still thinks she is Home Secretary tasked with reducing immigrants

I think it is also because various pundits were predicting that the Dems would win and that it would be an embarrassing setback for Trump.

A major victory can sometimes mean just beating predictions.

The media also have a lot of power to interpret any story to say what they want it to say. Don't expect too much logic or consistency.

Different thing. US has always restricted immigration for work purposes. UK hasn't been able to since it joined the EU. Now we're leaving we can put a similar system in place to the Swiss where priority is given to those already living in the UK. Workers with the necessary skills/experience in areas where such are in short supply will have no problems getting a permit to live in the UK, same as is already the case for non-EUs.

Um no!

Mrs May, speaking at the manifesto launch in Halifax, said:
"Restating the commitment to bring net immigration down to tens of thousands a year"
"Increasing the amount levied on firms employing migrant workers"

Nothing about meeting demand for workers?

"She is fixated about reducing immigrants; when she was Home Secretary she even suppressed the report that showed the positive benefits of immigrants"

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And so she should be. 336,000 more immigrants since 2015!

"Net migration of 336,000 accounted for 62.4%, while the difference between birth and death rates made up 35.8%."

"Net international migration continued to be the main driver, but there was also an increase in births and fewer deaths than last year."

The population of the UK has increased by just over five million in 11 years - previously it took 35 years, from 1970 to 2005, to make the same leap.

Population change in the UK has averaged 482,000 a year over the past decade."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40372533

Such numbers cannot be sustained and must be brought under control.

Said the emigrant.

Expat, surely.

In case you missed it

Trump seems determined to damage his own presidency and to cast doubt on his personal credibility.

Probably the Russians recorded it

Edit - seems to be the day for climb downs!!
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Immigrant, in fact (to the UK), since that's the point of that post.

It seems to be the same all over the world: it's the recent immigrants, the newly minted citizens, who rail the loudest against further immigration to their new home (even if they don't live there any more).

Rather like all those SVP/UDC-voting new citizens in Switzerland. I'm all right, Jack...

That is very true. Very disconcerting.

And it leads into a circle: Those make you wonder whether our attitude of naturalization should maybe be restricted in order to .... not suddenly have restrictive attitude of naturalization
So far all I can do is sit and watch it happen.

Now Trump is targeting the US travel industry

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It is named something like the "lifeboat syndrome".
Based on the experience from maritime disasters where people who manage to get into lifeboats then obstruct other people from getting aboard

Maybe Trump, after he was elected President, should have considered stopping launching new attacks on Obama?

Karma!

As the trailing spouse of said emigrant/expat yes I do say restrictions are needed. We came here long before the Free Movement Agreement was enacted here, but no problem in getting a permit as husband is an expert in his field and no one else in Switzerland who could do what he does. Nearly 20 years later that's still the case.

The UK will bring in a system similar to the Swiss or Oz one so the skills they need will be allowed in. That's always been the case.