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The greatest threat to the UK public comes not from brown people fleeing war and persecution, but from over privileged, over educated, emotionally stunted public schoolboys who are pissing on them and telling them it's raining.

Generally, if someone is coming to the UK as an economic migrant they will have applied for entry prior to leaving their home country, will have a job already lined up and letters from their employers and sponsors to show as proof. Most of the people crossing the channel are not economic migrants but refugees and asylum seekers, fleeing either unsafe conditions (war, famine etc) or persecution (political, religious or because of their sexuality). The definition of a refugee according to The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is:“A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.”In the UK, a person becomes a refugee when government agrees that an individual who has applied for asylum meets the definition in the Refugee Convention they will ‘recognise’ that person as a refugee and issue them with refugee status documentation. Usually refugees in the UK are given five years’ leave to remain as a refugee. They must then must apply for further leave, although their status as a refugee is not limited to five years. Refugees certainly aren't coming here for a "soft touch". They're not allowed to work and most are given £40.65 per week to cover all their day to day expenses (food, toiletries, transport etc). If they're given accommodation it will usually be in a hostel or some other poor standard housing (including ex-military camps that have been classified as unfit for human habitation). There is no such thing as an ‘illegal’ or ‘bogus’ asylum seeker. Under international law, anyone has the right to apply for asylum in any country that has signed the 1951 Convention and to remain there until the authorities have assessed their claim It is recognised in the 1951 Convention that people fleeing persecution may have to use irregular means in order to escape and claim asylum in another country – there is no legal way to travel to the UK for the specific purpose of seeking asylum The 1951 Refugee Convention guarantees everybody the right to apply for asylum. It has saved millions of lives. No country has ever withdrawn from it. The UK's social and medical services are being overloaded, not by brown people fleeing war or persecution (usually from countries where the UK has been involved militarily - Iraq, Afghanistan - or from places where we've sold arms to countries such as Saudi Arabia who then use those weapons to bombard civilian populations in countries like Yemen) but by systematic and chronic underfunding of those services by successive governments. The UK only accepts 0.026% of all the world's refugees with 86% being offered sanctuary in countries close to their country of origin. If refugees were allowed to work while their claim for asylum was assessed they could make a massive contribution to the economy and society of the UK: About 1,200 medically qualified refugees are recorded on the British Medical Association’s database. It is estimated that it costs around £25,000 to support a refugee doctor to practise in the UK. Training a new doctor is estimated to cost between £200,000 and £250,000 and takes between 5 and 7 years to qualify as a junior doctor.

Feed a troll and you get trolled. The solution is easy.

Because making up shit is how he argues. Duh.

Nobody ever said PDX was on the westside.. PDX is roughly in the middle of Portland on the North edge, the "FBI" flightpath goes on the west of PDX and the west side of Portland. There is no conflict here. You keep making straw-man arguments.

The simple answer is cronyism. The company with responsibility for assessing asylum claims is InfoSys, a company based in Kigali and mainly owned by Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, an Indian businessman and father-in-law to the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.

Both quotes from the same post. Outstanding Winsor.

Well here I am, almost 2 years later, on a Sabre 3 107 at 2.0. It’s definitely faster and longer recovery than my S2 120, as to be expected. openings are marginally better than the 2’s. good flare power. Good canopy. I’ll be on this for a while.

What a great canopy! My experience has been amazing with the Sabre 3 line, I've jumped them almost exclusively from 230-135 sqft with some demos and rental days on s-fires, safires, and sabre 2s. I'm loaded at 1.35 and I feel like this is where the wing starts to wake up, it doesn't have any of the muddy feeling inputs the larger sizes had, the harness feeling starts to develop and you can really get it moving in a dive! The Opening: I would say it opens reasonably well, it typically opens pretty quick, 600ft. is probably average. Sometimes, I get crazy off heading openings, I've had the usual 90° off heading with the occasional wild 360°, I don't know if they are body position induced, packing, or a variety of things working together but the wing is controllable so quickly you can just make the appropriate input while checking your surroundings and it will do whatever you tell it. It's also not out of the ordinary to have to manipulate the rears to get the slider all the way down. The Performance: In just one word, Versatile! The rears have gotten me back safe and sound from some spots that I KNEW I wasn't making it back from. It's extremely predictable which is confidence inspiring. The brakes have a ton of range and slow flight performance is impressive, it can hang in deep brakes forever without sacrificing controllability or risking a stall. When inducing speed with the fronts it builds speed quickly and can be forced to keep diving if you need a little more before the fronts get too heavy. The rears have a lot of power and made it easy for me to make my first of many rear riser landings! When you transition to toggles there is immense stopping power, you can always get a nice tip toe landing even in no wind conditions. The Conclusion: I love this thing! I think it has been and continues to be a wonderful platform to learn basic up to high performance skills and maneuvers. I look forward to progressing further and seeing what else this wing has to offer at the next step!