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You hire someone who is politically and ideologically aligned with your world view.

Although it's a much harder job when the "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" you are rounding up to put in cages are all blue-eyed blonde English speaking europeans.

Might need some software updates

No need to update the software. The blood of all their victims clients is red.

He only drinks the blood of the young though.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/08/01/peter_thiel_wants_young_blood_for_longevity/

At least their trying to get some forms of intelligence in all of this and what can go wrong with beta software. Keep calm and remember the empire

For a start we should probably start arresting French border patrol boats for escorting sinking migrant dinghies into UK waters.

If you are going down that route, the navy and coastguard can start confiscating Spanish fishing boats close to British waters.

It may be a good start to the UK having a fishing fleet again.

>It may be a good start to the UK having a fishing fleet again.

Don't understand the weird fetishism over fishing, the money's terrible, the work dangerous, the stock which Brits actually eat permanently depleted and the UK's fishing quotas were sold off (by UK gov) to a handful of hedge funds years ago who are the only people in the mix who see a real guaranteed profit.

I'm not sure you'll find a huge queue forming to risk life and limb for 10K a year - on the hope that 10 years down the line you might make 30k as a skipper....aside from the tech having moved on a bit, a single super trawler is a match for an entire fishing community back in the halycon days the flag shaggers seem to think we're returning to.

Would love to but I'm currently training for one of the highly rewarding careers in the turnip picking industry - now that the Eu no longer forces all these cushy jobs to go to foreigners.

> Would love to but I'm currently training for one of the highly rewarding careers in the turnip picking industry

You do know that you're not allowed to snigger at the funny-shaped ones until after you have completed your apprenticeship?

@AC

"Don't understand the weird fetishism over fishing"

i dont get it either. But then I prefer office work. Different interests for different people.

"the stock which Brits actually eat permanently depleted"

Not sure its permanent but the reduction in fishing stocks seemed to be attributable to EU regulations from what I read. Alternatively leasing areas would probably work better since they make more money by actually having fish vs just meeting a quota by politicians.

There is no way the reduction in fish stocks is due to EU regs. The regs are there to save whatever is left of the stock after overfishing, some of which may be from illegal Russian or Chinese supertrawlers.

You may mean reductions in permissible catches under EU regs. That will change post Brexit, but the number of fish in the sea will continue to diminish unless sustainable international fishing targets are agreed upon and enforced by everyone.

How this horribly incompetent Westminster cabinet manages its fishing stocks, or anything else after Brexit, remains to be seen. I'm not encouraged.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/18/where-did-all-the-cod-go-fish-chips-north-sea-sustainable-stocks

@First Light

"There is no way the reduction in fish stocks is due to EU regs. The regs are there to save whatever is left of the stock after overfishing, some of which may be from illegal Russian or Chinese supertrawlers."

The regs might be there with the best intentions but its the consequences that matter. Just as the gov might have the best intentions with its covid advice while making an amusing/irritating mess.

best intentions? but for whom?

Well they have been managing it for the past 26 years.

The goal seems to be achieving Mediterranean levels of over fishing in the North Sea.

>Not sure its permanent but the reduction in fishing stocks seemed to be attributable to EU regulations from what I read

Everything bad is attributable to EU regulations according to most of our press.....industrial methods ensured stocks were almost wiped out long before EU tried to fix things - even so fish have proven uncooperative and refuse to stick to the borders.

You have obviously never been to the Broch (Fraserborough).

All five bedroom bungalows with four flash cars parked out front.

Deep sea fishing pays spectacularly well if there is a good catch.

The fishing fleet thing is the same as the Trumpian 'wall' thing - make a huge deal of an insignificant factor that has some sort of nationalistic tokenism involved, that way you can wheel it out every time you need to distract Joe/sephine public from whatever you're fscking up today...

Your comment shows a real lack of understanding as to the serious, very real issues affecting our ability to control our borders. You should apply for a job at the Home Office. You seems to be well qualified !

Would be funny but I get the impression Boris really will adopt Trump's hiring policy. Apparently 'taking back control' means doing whatever Thiel wants.

@AC

"Your comment shows a real lack of understanding as to the serious, very real issues affecting our ability to control our borders."

Actually it is a serious problem that again occurred. People smuggling by a country that doesnt want them there so helps them enter another country illegally. Not missing how sick it is for them not to pick these people up from an overcrowded boat that is literally sinking as the French border patrol just watched.

You have it completely backward my friend.

These people have the right to board a dinghy in France or Belgium or wherever and have a nice little sail around the Channel waters.

The French navy is not escorting them. They are keeping an eye on them to make sure they do not sink and drown, but under what pretence should they be stopping them? Just because Priti Patel and the Daily Mail readers *think* they are going to illegally enter UK waters?

*Once* they actually enter the British waters, it's up to the British border force to enforce UK laws (while abiding by international treaties regarding refugees which the UK has ratified .. and Boris not yet decided to ignore), and out of the French hands.

I have no idea why people think it'd be up to the French to police the UK borders. If the UK had not decided to sub-contract the policing of its borders to the other side of the channel 25 years or so ago, we wouldn't be where we are now.

@AC

"These people have the right to board a dinghy in France or Belgium or wherever and have a nice little sail around the Channel waters."

Erm, are you sure? If these people had the legal right to board the dinghy in those countries then they would also have the right to enter the UK via legal means. That people travel through multiple countries to illegally enter the UK from our neighbour countries is not their legal right.

"The French navy is not escorting them. They are keeping an eye on them to make sure they do not sink and drown, but under what pretence should they be stopping them?"

That is an interesting comment which does come with the reasonable position that we shouldnt even bother saving these people since it is the French allowing them to drown in UK waters. But as illegal migrants it is on the French to deal with them and not pass on the problem to the UK.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/17/french-border-guards-escort-overcrowded-migrant-boat-into-uk-waters-13284642/

I forgot that you need a permit to board a dinghy. Still, if the turnip picking doesn't work out, mabe after we sort Covid we can retrain the Covid Marshalls as dinghy permit checkers.

That just all sounds like something Farage,The Dingy Nonce would spout.

To send British border patrol boats into French territorial waters and "arrest" French law enforcement officers is not very clever.

@Weylin

"To send British border patrol boats into French territorial waters and "arrest" French law enforcement officers is not very clever."

I dont think it would be too big a problem. International law on asylum seeking puts the responsibility on the first safe country (which to us would be France, to France would be wherever they entered). By not intervening the Border guards are effectively supporting the illegal migration, or in this case intentionally allowing these migrants to sink in UK waters by refusing to intervene which puts the responsibility on them. We could even claim to be doing the French a favour by bringing these criminals to international courts to decide on the legality of their efforts. Maybe they could be tried for negligence or attempted murder as well as supporting the illegal crossing.

After such a public shaming even if the border guards are considered innocent it might make a difference.

Speechless - or am I missing the whoosh parrot? But if that's the way we are going, why focus on negligent enablement of border crossing? Why not nip over to Syria and arrest Assad for genocide, or Moscow and pick up Putin under the poison acts?

...if only there were some clue that this chuffing company was not to be trusted with our data.

How dare you speak that way about the Heros Of Brexit/Covid!!!!

Ever heard of Cambridge Analytica?

https://mashable.com/2018/03/22/facebook-peter-thiel-cambridge-analytica/?europe=true

The contract details will be interesting from GDPR perspective. If any processing is done outside EU, it's probably illegal from the get go, plus deliberate UK gov policy because 5 eyes.

Bet there aren't any mandatory monetary penalties in case of data flow 'accidents'.

We have taken back control! We can now stick it to Europe by sending all our personal details straight to Thiel in the US of Trumpistan. Now say how much you love big brother before Miniluv sends you to a joycamp.

" If any processing is done outside EU, it's probably illegal"

Not if protected by adequate safeguards (GDPR Chapter V).

The outfit with the toxic IPO and bogus technology? What's wrong with Autonomy?

An epic fail in the making with this last-minute, "Hail Mary" effort. How can Palantir even pretend they will be able to accomplish this in the time frame?

After four years of Trump/Brexit, I think I'm becoming numb. Superlatives have lost their meaning.

Indeed, it seems the feckety fecking feckers are running the asylum now. Don't be too surprised if the Orange One wins a second term*.

* Just four more years and I'll get that steel mill re-opened. Honest!

What makes you think there is the slightest intention of delivering anything useful to the UK on time?

So we’ll be getting a world lead Truck and Trace application?

I would have thought that Christopher Tolkien could sue Peter Thiel for breach of copyright or some such.

As to what our benighted ministers/spads/spivs are up to. I am beyond despair now.

Using fancy AI for a basic book keeping tasks.

Enter goods: type quantity and value.

Change VAT if type not VAT-exempt

Charge extra tariff if tariffs apply to type

Send bill

How is AI going to apply to such a plodding business logic.

You can fart around with all sorts of gov sponsored crap on the blighty side of the channel to finesse whatever. The problem is "we" are a third country as of next year and that means checks and paperwork and queues. Forget traffic jams and think of the ferry jam.

If a remember an earlier El Reg article about this contractor correctly they've been loss-making for years. How sustainable is that? I thought that financial stability was one of the requirements when tendering for UK public sector contracts:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/900525/MSC-Guidance-2020.pdf

Any public procurement wizards out there who can enlighten us?

My working assumption is that they’re the Air America of technology companies....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)