The new Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' ends the "Blair Doctrine"

I would say zero!

May knows that relaxed immigration rules for Turks would not go down very well with the people of the UK, it would probably give our Andrew a laugh though

There are, to my knowledge, plenty of Turks in this country already on spurious grounds.

If May had been any use at all as Home Secretary she would have done something about it. But the truth is that Immigration Enforcement is the most useless part of the whole Home Office

I agree to some point, I'm not bubbling with confidence that immigration will go down as much as the Brexiteers would like after we exit the EU.

Time will tell.

It's a development contract: the Turks are buying BAe's expertise and all the manufacturing will be done in Turkey. So there's unlikely to be any impact immigration-wise.

I would hope that BAe have been given strict parameters by the MoD and Secret Services and won't be including the newest and most secretive stuff into their design. However if the resulting aircraft are acquired by unfriendlies, we will know all its strengths and weaknesses.

I do not think the MoD will be supplying any hi tech equipment that can be copied very easily, it will probably be sold with a MoD service contract.

I remember years back when working at Porton Down seeing a PCB that had been made in house, the transistors, resistors, diodes, transformers, inductors, oscillators, relays, rectifiers, every component on the board had no value codes printed on them thus making it very difficult to copy. I would like to think that their software was inaccessible too, I'm guessing that the military in most countries have some clever chaps working for them who specialise in making arms that are sold overseas difficult to copy and difficult to arm and use without special tools and equipment.

Having said that the Chinese can copy anything

A much funnier cartoon...

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...e-bell-uk-us-theresa-may-donald-trump-cartoon

Nothing more democratic than May's ascendancy to PM.

Or Brown's .... At least May was elected by Conservative MPs; nobody elected Brown.

True, but we all know what the outcome of a General Election would be if one was held tomorrow, even the pollsters wouldn't get that wrong

I note with relief that Theresa May has now condemned Trump's Executive Order banning the entry into the US Muslims born in seven countries. Given the controversy surrounding his election, I can't help wondering whether the drafting was carried out by Democrat-supporting State Department officials and made deliberately wide-ranging as to cause the President severe embarrassment. The entire population of Somalia, for example, can not be blamed for the actions of a limited number of its scions and this travel ban means that our multi-Gold Medallist Mo Farrah can not return to his American home.

Get some competent drafters for your Orders, Mr President, before your credibility goes into the toilet.

I seem to recall that the UK authorities were attempting to return, deport, Mo's brother back to his home country Somalia not that long ago. Something to do with multiple robberies and knife attacks. Did he ever go?

I don't think the UK has a good record of sending criminals back to their home countries, not letting them in in the first place is a better option.

I'm surprised that Trump didn't give any notice about the recent travel ban, its a bit harsh when people are in transit to the US to refuse them entry.

Its harsh to single out specific countries, you cannot help feeling that Trump may be making the US a bigger target for ISIS and the rest of the nutter terrorist groups because of his actions.

I am left wondering where Trumps bold actions on immigration will take the US, I watch with great interest

http://newsthump.com/2016/08/30/mo-farahs-brother-outruns-deportation-van/

Whilst Britain doesn't have much success in deporting criminals, it has an excellent record for deporting those who've made the UK their home, bought houses and have gainful employment here, paying their fair share of taxation and raised children here; their only "crime" is that they're not British though they have a British spouse.

The British government has to take a pragmatic approach when dealing with foreign leaders of countries we seek to have trade deals with. Trade deals tend to last longer than elected leaders or representatives.