Yeah, given £5.66 a day to live on until their application is processed which can take a long time, arrive with the clothes on their backs,
The housing crisis in the UK was caused mainly by Thatchers Right To Buy. The lack of housing is because she sold off homes, or allowed people to sell them off and profit from it.
The lack of resources we are seeing in the UK now is the result of 10 years of Tory austerity, nothing to do with the Labour Government. The years under Cameron et saw some of the worst poverty ever in the UK
Brexit was built on a lie, people voted for things that they were told were fact that later turned out to be innaccurate.
Lots of communities in the North did this as they had been struggling for decades with unemployment and a completely decimated community, and who did that to them.... THATCHER!! Shut the mines, didnt she? Main source of employment for thousands of people
This viewpoint that immigrants then arrived and took jobs meant for British peoples is also RIDICULOUS!
If an employer chooses to employ an immigrant over a Brit then thats the fault of the employer. Ask yourself why they might want to employ someone who works a bit harder, or for a bit cheaper. The answer is Capitalism - get something done as cheaply as possible for as much profit, every man for themselves etc. Who loved that idea?? THATCHER!
People smiling when they arrive on a boat? I would be smiling if I had got to safety having been on a dinghy on the British Channel. How ridiculous to say someone's intentions are bad because they smile.
Refuges being responsible for terrible crimes?
Are we forgetting women being murdered by British off duty police officers whilst they are walking home?
Are we forgetting Plymouth?
I sincerely hope you never find yourself in a situation where you might need some help from an immigrant
Very passionate but I think you’ve missed a very salient point. If a immigrant arrives on British soil by dinghy they can only have done so from France. A safe country and a signatory to the Geneva convention and the UN charter of human rights. It’s a simple fact of geography, the UK is an island situated in the Northwest extreme on continental Europe. The only way the UK can be the first safe country an asylum seeker arrives in is if they catch a direct flight, otherwise they will have passed through numerous EU countries to get here. The rules regarding asylum are clear, you are expected to clam in the first safe country you arrive in, hence the existence of the Dublin Regulations.
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If a person wants to claim asylum they have a right, but it’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask if they are so desperate, why they ignored the EU countries they passed through? Because that looks like economic migration to me. And there are numerous routes via visas and work permits to immigrate legally. Unless of course these people don’t have the useful skills required to qualify? Which I suspect.
And Thatcher and capitalism? Really? Yes she shut the mines but frankly she had to. I was born in Easington in County Durham. What I often remember about my childhood is cycling past that stinking colliery on a regular basis. And the place DID stink, particularly during the hot summer months. The pile of coal got bigger everyday. Why? Because they couldn’t sell it. The pit had been in operation for nearly 100 years and pretty much exhausted. The reality was that it was cheaper to import coal from Australia than extract it from Durham. Thatcher devastated the town in the short run but saved it in the long run. I was the first generation to grow up in Easington who’s future didn’t involve disappearing down a large hole in the ground for decades and being nearly crippled at 50 from industrial injuries.
Today Easington has more or less returned to it’s pre-industrial revolution roots as a semi-rural community, and for the first time in my memory is actually a nice place to live.
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I agree but (OT sorry)it does just prove the point, that bojo argued against, the uk is a small and relatively powerless country without being part of something like the EU. regardless, without the backing of the US nothing else really mKes a difference at this stage, what is really depressing is how, in the US at least there seems no difference in foreign policy between the two parties
Biden just ignored the EU as well. Europe is the old world. Like it or not the US, China and Asia is the future.
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I'm sure they're not trying that. I have zero confidence labour would do any better.
I pray for them all :-
