There are people who flee from war and terror.
We saw them when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban when the Americans moved out. Remember that? People clinging to the wheels of aeroplanes?
And there are chancers. People who deliberately lie to get their hands on free accommodation and money from our benefit system. Who stay in hotels being fed and watered complaining about being bored. Pretending to be children. Lying pieces of shit. It stings. But the facts are these. The human race is on the move. We want to live in better conditions, safer countries, free from oppression. You’d have to be nuts to want to live in North Korea or other countries with nutters running them. I can only go by what I see on the news. And all I see is boat loads of able bodied young men. No children, no women. If life is so bad in your country why leave your loved ones behind? Don’t tell me it’s your custom or culture. Everyone reading this board, without exception, god forbid, would be grabbing hold of their kids, partners, parents even their pets if their lives were threatened.
My husband was an asylum seeker. I met him in 1993, we married in 1998. 25 years now, 30 really including the dating. The asylum system was probably easier back then. We spent probably £30,000 on lawyers fees. Yep, that much. But he was allowed to work, that is the problems with now. These men aren’t allowed to work.
Only last week on the news they were saying there were millions of job vacancies. No one to fill them. Well there are people to fill them. Give these men work visas. Tax them too. Pay national insurance, for the health system they will be using. They want to contribute. They didn’t come here to sit on their hands or chat with their firmness in shopping centres all day long.
In my town there are tents beside our railway station. Homeless people live in them. In Milton Keynes there are hundreds of tents, some close to the shopping centre, homeless people live there. No one is putting them in hotels. Or feeding them.
Im not saying put British people first. I am saying, put the blame where blame is due. Squarely, on the shoulders of The conservative government who have done nothing but make the asylum process worse, for users, abusers and claimants.
We need more social housing. Thousands and thousands of homes. New estates. Hundreds of them. Social housing, rent controlled housing.
Stop private landlords charging exorbitant rents. A thousand pounds a month is theft In a town, maybe not in central London, but certainly in suburbs and boroughs. Enough already. Someone do something. Unclog this drain and get this country moving again.
61 % were found to be adults.
