28-12-2018 12:46 PM
28-12-2018 12:59 PM
28-12-2018 3:27 PM
If they "want to work" they're not asylum seekers, they're "economic migrants".
If Syria (and all those other places they come from) was that bad, they'd seek "asylum" in the first country they got to.
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
28-12-2018 4:31 PM
These people are not our problem. The EU encouraged them to come to Europe, so they are France's problem. They are not in danger in France, they are perfectly safe. They WANT to come to Britain because it is the equivalent of winning the lottery to arrive here. There are desperately poor people already living here..we should be giving them homes, not people who just fancy living here because we are so soft. I would like to live in Florida, because it's nice and warm for my old bones, but if I turned up there I would be put on the first plane back out. We need to pick these people up if they are in danger, and take them back to France. Just a few returned boatloads would send the correct message. The more we let in, the more will come...and with our exit from the EU on the horizon, it will only escalate.
28-12-2018 6:31 PM
Don’t asylum seekers want to work?
28-12-2018 6:51 PM
Isn't it strange that those people concerned about asylum seekers suddelny appear concerned about our own homeless people or those here living in poverty ?
28-12-2018 6:52 PM
If we leave the EU without some kind of deal and the likes of Rees-Mogg and Johnson get their way for a hard Brexit then there won’t be any need for these migrants to use rubber dinghies.
The hard Brexiteers plans depend on low taxes, low welfare and cheap labour to create a Singaporean like state off the coast of Europe - don’t expect immigration to fall if they get their way.
If you don’t believe that’s what they are aiming for then just look at their voting record.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24926/jacob_rees-mogg/north_east_somerset/votes#reform
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip/votes
28-12-2018 7:09 PM
Don’t asylum seekers want to work?
No, they want to twist our system, get as much as they can, by any means they can, then send as much as they can "back home" then jaunt back and to for as long as they can before they swan off back there to live a life of luxury (compared to the rest of their countrymen).
If they really wanted a safe asylum and intergrate in to their safe haven to show their grtitude, they'd stop at the first safe country they got to.
This country has far too many people who see good in every twisting neer-do-well. They used to be called do-gooders but isn't the "new" buzz-word "snowflakes"?
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
28-12-2018 7:45 PM
Your evidence for that rant is ???
For every example you can come up with of an immigrant “scrounger” there will be tens, if not hundreds, more that have successfully settled in the UK and are contributing to our society.
I would hope that if you lived in an area of the UK where you couldn’t find employment you’d move to another area where you could - having said that there are many who wouldn’t and would just complain that the government has failed them or that the ‘foreigners’ have taken all the jobs and expect to be supported without making an effort themselves.
Anyone who has travelled thousands of miles, spent what in their own country would be a small fortune and risked their lives to reach the UK or any other country, haven’t done so just to idle their life away.
28-12-2018 8:20 PM
28-12-2018 9:33 PM
It is not necessary to signal one's virtue to show that one cares about people who are homeless or living in poverty.
28-12-2018 9:39 PM
Whether they work or not doesn't really matter. The very fact that they are here means that they will be taking up housing, medical care, education..all of which this country struggles to provide for the people who live here already.
28-12-2018 9:51 PM
@astrologica wrote:Whether they work or not doesn't really matter. The very fact that they are here means that they will be taking up housing, medical care, education..all of which this country struggles to provide for the people who live here already.
It is a political choice that this country struggles with Failing NHS services.lack of police,lack of investment in education,etc,Not the fault of asyslum seekers
28-12-2018 10:51 PM
28-12-2018 10:56 PM
It is a political choice to cut funding for all these services..I agree with you on that. But it is also a political choice to allow more and more people into the country who will require those services. It's not difficult to do the math..
29-12-2018 6:45 AM
If they are asylum seekers why not go through the proper channels instead of being clandestine illegal immigrants ? They cross the channel at night and if they manage to get ashore they disappear into the black economy and try to evade detection and if found after who knows how long they then shout asylum seeker.
31-12-2018 5:40 PM
“Concerns about immigration”? Where does that come from?
https://prruk.org/concerns-about-immigration-where-does-that-come-from/
‘People are expressing concerns about immigration.”
The government laughs quietly to itself:
“People do not blame us for their living standards going down,
they blame immigration.”
BY MICHAEL ROSEN,MICHAEL ROSEN, POETRY
31-12-2018 7:08 PM
@astrologica wrote:Whether they work or not doesn't really matter. The very fact that they are here means that they will be taking up housing, medical care, education..all of which this country struggles to provide for the people who live here already.
And that struggle is getting harder -
Housing:- Currently 34% of unskilled construction labour is made up of EU nationals, 11% of skilled workers.
Health:- “In 2015-16, 19% of nurses joining the NHS were of EU nationality, while in 2017-18 this fell to 8%. Meanwhile, the percentage of nurses leaving the NHS with an EU nationality rose from 9% to 13%.”
Education:- 5% of teachers are EU nationals
Care Workers:- 17% are first generation immigrants
“. . . . in the second quarter of 2018, the latest for which figures are available, more EU citizens may have left the UK than arrived in the UK, for the first time in more than eight years . . . “
BBC News Reality Check. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46618532
31-12-2018 8:16 PM
31-12-2018 8:20 PM
How bad must life be in Iran that you’d risk everything to move to a country where Theresa May is the Prime Minister?