OK fair enough.
Your problem however is your 2:2.
With such a weak degree classification you may well find it difficult to get in anywhere and if you do get in you might well find it even harder to cope with the intellectual challenge which results from starting a PhD from a very low academic baseline.
You should consider perhaps a postgrad Masters degree in my opinion. That might allow you to develop a stronger baseline. This forum is full of people with excellent undergrad degrees who struggle with PhDs. Dont feel bad about this. It is pretty much the exact route I had to take for the same reason so I am speaking from personal experience. You need to make your own choices though.

That is a very odd set of questions.

Average completion rates really are not relevant unless it is just for your supervisor and related projects. Everything else is guesswork.
I cannot see any advantage of asking about "responsible recruitment" whatever that really means.
You would have to be insane to walk into an interview and ask questions about gender based violence, decolonising or the #metoo campaign unless that was directly linked to your work. If anyone actually wants to be considered to be a "chip on the shoulder" type then by all means fire away but if you want to maximise your chances of acceptance you simply cannot be as aggressive as that.

There are plenty of good questions missing from this list.

What are your expectations of me?
What hours do you expect?
What days do you need me physically at my desk?
Can I work from home?
Will I be writing my own papers?
How much supervision are you expecting to provide?
Do you expect me to be completely independent?
Will I be expected to supervise new PhD students in the future?
How often do you want to meet up with me and what format do you prefer those meetings to adopt?
Can I knock on your door or do you prefer formal emails to setup meetings?
Who is reponsible for generating ideas?
If it is me, do you want to vet them before I get started or should I just run with it?
How long do you expect me to take to complete?
Do I need a set number of deloverables, papers etc?

Finally, simply have a chat about their research. Get a feel for whether you both get on with each other.

Hilarious :-D
Am I paranoid or does this website have more AI bots than actual humans?

I have to say that I don't think you have the healthiest of attitudes.

You have access to an HPLC and you can buy a mini fridge for £30 from Argos if it is that important to you. If you need a bigger fridge, buy a cheap second hand one and get your maintenance people to approve its use in your lab.

The less said about your last paragraph the better I think.
It astonishes me how many first year PhD students feel capable of judging the competence of their supervisors.
You shouldn't need to be seeing yor supervisor once a week at your level either. How many kids she has is totally irrelevamt and frankly none of your business.

Proving to a new supervisor you are not a quitter isnt your problem. Proving that you can be creative and adaptive when faced with difficulties might be the main problem.

I am certain that these posters are AI bots.If this is the state of the art in AI then I think we can sleep safely in our beds at night as our jobs are perfectly safe for the foreseeable future. These idiots are taking over nothing.

What on earth are you wittering on about my friend?
Are you a bot?
I smell a bot.

This is not a great attitude for a prospective PhD student to have.

The quality of the feedback won't necessarily be dependent on the journal's impact factor. What bothered me about higher impact journals was the length of time needed to publish and the attitude of the reviewers. I found feedback to be unnecessarily snobbish with higher impact journals. Altogether it was a hassle I could do without.

Having said that, I do understand that academia is absolutely obsessed with such things so I guess if you really want to enter that profession you need to think about that. For me, I was always interested in generating good science which was meaningful to me, getting it published and moving onto the next piece of research. Everything else was simply froth including presenting at conference and impact factor chasing. Don't even get me started on poster presentations :-D I don't think I am cut out to be an academic which is why I bailed post PhD. For a start I would never deliberately target final year undergrads in an attempt to protect my pension.

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Excellent. You have one member of staff pretending to need help on creating a research topic and then a second member of staff comes along with a link to yet another tedious and dodgy looking essay writing website.
You people may be immoral, unethical and devious but nobody could accuse you of lacking creativity.

Your website is very funny. I particularly enjoyed the rib tickling text under the hilarious heading "Don’t Get Panic Of Your Failures". The best however came a few sentences further down where, apparently without a shred of irony or self awareness you have a heading called "Never Cheat On Your Assignments" right next to text which promises to produce "first class essays for you"

If only PhD students were idiots you'd be raking in a fortune.

I always took a different view on impact factors to most. My aim was to get published with the minimum fuss by picking a reasonable impact factor journal rather than the highest. It wasnt a lack of ambition on my part, simply a desire not to spend months trying to get something published when I prefer to get on with my research.

I think it might depend on what reasons you tell them as to why you didn't finish your previous PhD. I know people who have been in your position and have successfully taken on another PhD so it definitely can be done. You cetainly should not be offering information unless they explicitly ask for it. Have you volunteered information about your circumstances wirthout them asking?

That is absolutely horrendous. I wouldn't last a week in that environment before quitting. I have to say though that what he is describing is not really like any industrial company I have ever worked for.

So you are peddling the commercial company SI-UK then, which apparently "guarantees" successful entry to a UK university through use of specialised "British Council" consultants?

Maybe it should be called Sigh-UK ?

Reported as spam.
Maybe one day, one of you lot will manage to get through a whole afternoon before someone sees straight through your cunning plan.......

What do you mean by "top school"?

We are all here to willingly provide support for each other free of charge but this is a ridiculous question.