First point:- in short yes, "stay and suffer" (but define "suffer")*, just as I do here in my own country.

I am also all for balance. So here's another thought:- at what point do the "asylum seekers" return home? Can we assume the answer to be:- "when things get better"?

Second point:- I am not talking about "drop boxes" (as used by various large companies), but secure arrangements for accepting deliveries at private addresses (when no-one is at home).


A bit like a window (or a back door), you mean?

* Millions of people around the globe suffer every day (children, especially). Should all of them simply make their way to the Promised Land, then?

In years gone by you could leave your front door open. Got to remember that you had nothing worth stealing, now if you had a 'drop box' they would steal that too!
In years gone by I once repaired equipment in pubs, went to one to repair the video jukebox only to find that the TV was missing, stole the previous night when the pub was full.

Scouser! Ha, ha.

Trouble is these days "having nowt worth stealing" doesn't really help ... as the drug-fuelled [censored] would just as likely batter you to death anyway.

Meanwhile Neil, as you must have heard, we're enjoying something of a revival in the business of metal theft at the moment.

Some folk (eg, Daily Mail readers) keep banging on about the need to regulate Scrap Metal Dealers. Well, perhaps that wouldn't be a bad idea ... but I suspect that most of the stuff goes straight into the back of containers, trucks and vans and heads straight off "elsewhere".

Yet another of the benefits we accrue from having Open Borders, I guess.

But back to the "drop box" ... perhaps we'll add to the spec something about wiring it to up the mains, so that it becomes "live" when tampered with (triggered by a trembler, tilt switch, or some such device ... you know, the sort of thing those pin-ball machines in pubs used to have).

It finally came to me It's a company called ByBox and they do these Dropboxes that I had seen in the news.

Nice slogans!

"It's never crowded along the extra mile" ... yes, I can vouch for that one.

Or, as a friend remarked recently:-

"If it wasn't hard, more people would be doing it"!