It's going to be 4 am here when it happens but I might be up and would love to watch it live. Anyone know any streaming services?

Isn't that like two years salary over there

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1gpsobz/serving_police_officer_arrested_on_suspicion_of/

Telling someone to may soon be legal again in the UK. The country that globalized the idea that all people have inherent dignity, worth and rights is now suggesting that some people may actually not be worth that much after all. The bill's proponents promise that despite the NHS being completely overwhelmed and unable to cope with regular illnesses, there definitely won't be any pressure to try and unburden themselves of some of the more costly and difficult cases (somehow they will do this differently than but I don't know how I didn't read that far and they are probably lying anyway)

!prayerwarriors join me in praying against this cult of death

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1gm19oo/20_men_jailed_for_over_219_years_for_rape_and/

Last night, as I was returning to my flat in London, I was attacked and mugged by a group of individuals.

Luckily, I have no injuries and I am ok. Unfortunately, they just took my phone so I’m without one for the foreseeable future.

I want to thank the @metpoliceuk for their…

— Chris Webb MP (@ChrisWebbMP) November 5, 2024

...Individuals.

God I hope he makes a comeback.

!nooticers

The 'king' of Britain's migrant hotels is raking in £4.8million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the UK.

Graham King, a former caravan park and disco tycoon, was catapulted onto the Rich List this year after cashing in on accommodating and transporting arrivals due to the UK's migrant crisis.

The 57-year-old - who has an estimated net worth of £750million - owns an Essex business which was paid £1.74billion last year and claimed this was due to the increase in refugees.

He is expected to become Britain's first immigration industry billionaire because he has a contract with the Home Office that will last until September 2029.

Clearsprings Ready Homes, which houses migrants in hotels, unused military barracks and flats, had an income increase of £400million in just 12 months.

According to The Times, a company report shows it made a profit of £91.2million last year and paid £90million in dividends to a company controlled by King, 'mainly to the provision of accommodation, support and transport to asylum-seekers'.

Contracts to house asylum seekers have become far more expensive due to a shortage of accommodation.

Taxpayers are paying between £127 and £148 a day to house them, which is a total of £8million per day.

But the government has said it will cut back on spending on 'asylum hotels' which may impact King's business.

Some contract-holders have also been slammed for the conditions of the properties they use.

This includes Clearsprings - in 2021, two of its sites were criticised for being 'decrepit', 'impoverished' and 'run-down'.

In 2023, 70 people, including children, slept outside in 'protest' after claiming they were put in small rooms without enough beds in two Clearsprings-run hotels in the capital.

At the turn of the century, King was running a caravan park in Canvey Island, Essex, with his brother.

He branched out after a disco he ran lost its licence and he suggested he could use the building – a former cinema – to house refugees instead.

Since launching his property firm in 1999, King has won a series of lucrative government contracts to provide short-term accommodation, mostly for asylum seekers.

His firm made the news when a council chose to house benefit claimants in its caravans. It was also in the firing line when inspectors found it was putting up asylum seekers in 'decrepit' and 'run-down' conditions at a former barracks in Kent and an Army camp in Pembrokeshire.

Inspectors said about a third of the residents consulted claimed to have mental health problems and inspectors found there to be 'fundamental failures of leadership and planning'.

King's wealth has put his son and daughter through a £44,000-a-year boarding school and funded the family's globe-trotting holidays and Alpine ski trips.

His daughter Catalina is studying to be an artist and her creations include £10 prints bearing the slogan 'Will trade racists for refugees'.

King was ranked as the 173rd richest person in Britain in the Sunday Times Rich List for 2024 - but vowed to climb even higher by next year.

The King family comes from Canvey Island, Essex, where Graham's father Jack King - a shed salesman from Romford - moved his young family in the early 1960s.

Entrepreneur and football fanatic Jack bought a failing caravan holiday park from the council and turned it into a successful mobile home business, Kings Park, which he sold for £32million in 2007, the Times reported.

King followed in his father's footsteps and spent many years working for Jack - who also owned a taxi company, a car dealership and nightclubs hosting performers including Shirley Bassey and Tommy Cooper - before launching Clearsprings.

Most of the Kings have moved away from Canvey island. King's mother passed away in the 1970s while his father died in 2016.

MailOnline has approached Clearsprings for comment.

Executing traitorous Catholics

!britbongs

!christians

@sneedman this ones for you

Sheepfyckers should stop fricking sheep

He has been one of the UK's favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now Paddington Bear – official name Paddington Brown – has been granted a British passport.

The co-producer of the latest Paddington film said the Home Office had issued the specimen document to the fictional Peruvian-born character – listing for completeness the official observation that he is, in fact, a bear.

"We wrote to the Home Office asking if we could get a replica, and they actually issued Paddington with an official passport – there's only one of these," Rob Silva told Radio Times.

He produced the document, complete with Paddington's photo inside, adding: "You wouldn't think the Home Office would have a sense of humour, but under official observations, they've just listed him as Bear."

Ben Whishaw, who voices the new British subject in the film Paddington in Peru, revealed that the specimen passport was not needed during production – because he spent the whole schedule in a subterranean studio in central London.

Nor did he meet any of his co-stars. "I never met Antonio [Banderas] or Olivia [Colman] for this film, but I hope I will at some point, because I watched their performances and enjoyed them so enormously. On Paddington 2, I never saw Hugh Grant, not once," he told Radio Times.

And he added: "I would have loved to have gone to Peru and Colombia, but I didn't get to go. I was just in a basement in Soho the entire time."

Asked about the secret to Paddington's voice, Whishaw told the magazine: "I don't like to think about that really. I have no idea what I'm doing when I do it. It's not any different to my own voice; it's not like I'm putting on a voice, but it is somehow different.

"Obviously, he's saying Paddington-ish things, and then it's just trial and error. It really comes down to the tiniest little breaths and the tiniest intonations and what works with the animation."

While some actors claim that a lot of themselves is in the character, Whishaw admitted that he doesn't like the marmalade that goes into making Paddington's favourite sandwiches. "It really doesn't agree with me at all, but I am a big Marmite lover. Marmite with Lurpak butter on toast is, to me, pretty much heaven," he said.

In the latest film – the third in the franchise – the duffel-coated bear travels to the country of his birth to visit his Aunt Lucy. But he discovers from the guitar-playing nun who runs the home for retired bears that his aunt went missing during a scientific mission.

Olivia Colman plays the nun, while Antonio Banderas plays a swashbuckling sailor who helps them iin their quest to find her.

There were hard stares when the film-makers chose Colombia rather than Peru as the filming location for the segment. New legislation to revitalise Peru's film industry was proposed by the rightwing lawmaker Adriana Tudela, who cited the "lack of incentives and the high number of national and local bureaucratic barriers to filming in Peru" as the main drivers behind the decision.