*Also posted in the IACGMOOH thread but it's re Nigel, so ...*
See, to me, he's not the monster some would like to make him out to be. Yes, he objects to 100s of 1000s of people arriving on our shores in dinghies, from God-knows-where, their intentions being God-knows-what, and they're being better looked after than people already living here who've fallen on hard times, people who've worked and paid into the system maybe all their lives, and yet get no help at all.
There've been reports just this week of a few British people who've been living in their cars due to having fallen on hard times and not having anywhere to live - who've been found dead, frozen to death, in their cars - while people arriving on dinghies are promptly put up in warm hotels. For some reason the MSM won't report news like this, or aren't allowed to. So anyone who's willing to speak out about the likes of this gets my vote - and not only in the jungle. Fair's fair after all, if the UK can afford to accommodate all & sundry, why not their own citizens? Sorry for the essay, but this really makes me angry.
Those people who come across are left to live on an absolute pittance every week (less than people from the UK on benefits) and are housed in the absolute worst of the worst housing and hotels (and I've worked in housing and seen temporary accommodation; it is not desirable) and the process for homelessness is the exact same as it is for people who are from here if they are homeless. What is convenient to both the left and right wing press is to not mention that local authorities have a statutory obligation to house everyone who is homeless. Absolutely everyone who is technically homeless, regardless. Whether that individual chooses to accept the (often dreadful and temporary) housing is an individual choice. It's
tit, as in some local authorities if you turn down the options it lowers your priority, but that is where it stands.
I don't understand why folk don't contemplate how bad their lives must be to literally get in a small boat, sometimes with their kids, and risk their entire lives to just get to somewhere safe. It is not like jumping onto a lilo and just pegging it over a swimming pool, it's literally risking life. Safe doesn't have to mean escaping a war zone and half a million people migrated from the UK last year, so it cuts both ways.
We were so lucky here as if (pre Brexit) we wanted to have a different (or, in some cases better) life, we could just bugger off to Spain to retire and that would be that. We could freely move between the two and there were so many folk of retirement age who enjoyed just spending as much of their time as they wanted abroad, but now we can't do that, we're limited. Those who can, are genuinely lucky.
The people from the UK who are destitute aren't fucked because of immigrants, they're fucked because of our dreadful government. That has been the case for years and will remain the same until things change.
Our NHS is absolutely fucked and is furthermore fucked as many of our doctors and consultants and nurses and care workers are immigrants. We're fucked. If we restrict those people living and working here, we are absolutely, catastrophically fucked. There's no two ways about it.
The 'MSM' do report on UK destitution and did only three days ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67631491.amp