What's your thoughts on asylum seekers?

@DearDarcy since you have asked questions, I ask you one back. How many asylum seekers do you know personally? On a day to day basis? A simple “ none” will suffice or if I’m wrong, how many?

Totally agree with you that the Tories have obliterated public services. Why don't the public go after the Royal family. Why are they allowed lo to continue creaming off the public .

I also want real reliable statistics on numbers entering on boats. If there were a policy to turn away boats and re settle them, there is the probability I could favour that. But I'd need to be sure that we know where they're getting sent to and how exactly is that going to be physically managed.

I would be in favour of deportation for criminals with dual nationalty ( high level crime only) but the fact is this is no easy thing to do.

My fear is this all spreads to other vulnerable groups like the poor and disabled. I'm in that group. We can't trust the ideology of any of these people sadly. No easy answers.

@DearDarcy since you have asked questions, I ask you one back. How many asylum seekers do you know personally? On a day to day basis? A simple “ none” will suffice or if I’m wrong, how many?

We aren’t ’bursting at the seams’. Problems with infrastructure are down to lack of investment and proper management over 14 years of Tory rule.

^this

It was BBC! Which are predominately ‘left’

Surprised they didn’t fiddle the numbers but the numbers don’t lie. It was also on GB news.

Not sure if this link will work but it’s the clip of it being announced on the Sunday Morning Show

👏👏👏

To all the ‘do gooders’ on this thread, I ask you some questions:

• Do you genuinely believe the majority of boats arriving in this country are arriving here from war torn countries full of deprivation? If so, where are the elderly, where are the women and children? Surely to god if if was THAT bad they wouldn’t leave their dear families behind.
• Why are they not seeking asylum in France and nearing countries?
• Are you willing to take in the grown men that are arriving here every day into your homes? If not where do you suppose they are housed and who do you suppose pays the upkeep of all this?

It’s not about being a ‘Bigot’ or a ‘Racist’ it’s about looking after ourselves, our family and British born, tax paying, hard working citizens of this country that is already on its knees. The country that we all one day will be leaving to our children and grandchildren. We cannot keep letting in unlimited amounts of unvetted illegal migrants into this country, where is the line?!!!!!

It’s not about legal migrants, who want to contribute to our system and abide by the British ways of living, we all know who this is about and people have had enough.

There was a poll on T.V a couple of weeks ago that asked ‘is Multiculturalism working in the U.K ‘ and 95% of people said no.

^this

Why was my point silly? It shows that at least 40,000 asylum seekers were allowed to stay in the UK for political expediency/to hit Home Office targets under the last Labour government, rather than on the merits of their applications. No doubt the last government did something similar - as will the current government.

I think the country is bursting at the seams. The NHS can't cope, no housing souring bills etc

We need to shut the boarders ans arart deporting all the men/criminals in the hotels costing us thousands etc and take care of the ppl actually paying into the economy.

Because it’s the quickest way (and becoming a convention on here)?
Not sure why you bothered with a whole post to tell me you don’t like my posting style is it because you know your point was a bit silly?

There was a poll on T.V a couple of weeks ago that asked ‘is Multiculturalism working in the U.K ‘ and 95% of people said no

May I ask which TV station this was? Could you please link?

If a week is a long time in politics, 4 and a half years is an eternity.

Absolutely. And an eternity is enough to shift opinion further, even more so as other countries tighten borders and we become the outlier.

@Tittat50 one of the problems is that the government isn't interested in publishing that data. The bits that come out are usually from motivated journalists and think tank type people who file FOIs and then write articles supporting their position (applies to both sides of the debate).

With a 'throw heart' gesture?

As I added at the end, I think the Overton window has shifted significantly since June for various reasons. Not least just how bad Labour have been. People just wanted the Tories out last June.

The official line is dump them in France. The unofficial line is take pot shots at them from Dover.

So just over half the electorate dont want the right wing, particularly the further right segments? Great.

In June. I think most can see a shift since then.