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So who is going to be brave enough to ask whether Shabana Mahmood's proposed reforms are right/sensible/racist?

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Papyrophile · 16/11/2025 17:26

Is Shabana Mahmood right or wrong to restrict asylum seeker's rights? In general?

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Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:40

Dollymylove · 16/11/2025 22:35

Don't forget the 15 year old rape gang victim who "married" her rapist, with her social worker attending the ceremony 😬
Yes that actually happened
In the UK

So not married.
And he's in jail. Justice served, that is what the law is for.

Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:38

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Because you cannot tell. It's a stupid notion not to have any human empathy for genuine asylum seekers just in case there is a rapist among them. Just as there are bad people, there are some amazing people too that are here, for example, the Afghan soldier who was fleeing the Taliban who saved someone drowning. That man would be dead now had it not been for him. The Afghan soldier arrived on a boat.....

If you'd said - any rapists that have been granted asylum should be removed from the UK immediately, I would probably have agreed.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 16/11/2025 22:36

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It is. Wink

BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:36

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Dollymylove · 16/11/2025 22:35

Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:31

@OhFeckWhatNow

A former colleague of mine was brought to the UK aged 13 (late 90s/2000) to marry an older man who had grown up here.

Arranged marriage is illegal - should've been reported and she'd not have been legally married at the age of 13 in the UK, so that's nonsense. I saw Kirsty Maccoll down the chip shop with Elvis, it's true.

Don't forget the 15 year old rape gang victim who "married" her rapist, with her social worker attending the ceremony 😬
Yes that actually happened
In the UK

BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:33

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Julen7 · 16/11/2025 22:32

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Yeah a lot of superior, patronising posts on here tonight.

Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:31

@OhFeckWhatNow

A former colleague of mine was brought to the UK aged 13 (late 90s/2000) to marry an older man who had grown up here.

Arranged marriage is illegal - should've been reported and she'd not have been legally married at the age of 13 in the UK, so that's nonsense. I saw Kirsty Maccoll down the chip shop with Elvis, it's true.

BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:31

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IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 16/11/2025 22:31

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BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:29

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Julen7 · 16/11/2025 22:28

Dollymylove · 16/11/2025 22:25

The residents of Crowborough whose homes became worthless overnight 😬

Indeed.

EasternStandard · 16/11/2025 22:26

SummerFeverVenice · 16/11/2025 22:14

Sure. Then maybe there wouldn’t be so many rapes.

Not sure what you mean here. Who’s doing what for this to be the outcome?

Dollymylove · 16/11/2025 22:25

Julen7 · 16/11/2025 21:57

I think if you had 600 young men living in a hotel or barracks in your town or village you might notice them.

The residents of Crowborough whose homes became worthless overnight 😬

OhFeckWhatNow · 16/11/2025 22:23

Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 21:54

Don't tell me, going to tell me about Sharia courts now?!
What you're writing is total fear-mongering bollocks.

I live in an area where there are increasing numbers of women going around with their faces covered. Where little girls are made to wear restrictive, long clothing and have their heads covered, whilst their brothers are free to run and climb and play without such restrictive clothing. A new mosque has recently been built, with more space given to men than women (and I heard from a Muslim woman that there are mosques in the UK that do not allow women in at all!!)
A former colleague of mine was brought to the UK aged 13 (late 90s/2000) to marry an older man who had grown up here.

I am not imagining these things. They have no place in the UK. It scares me that the numbers are increasing and I believe we need to act now (in fact should have done years ago) rather than realise years down the line that it's too late.

OrangesCinammonIvy · 16/11/2025 22:22

@Happyjoe oh no I'm mean people whose countries were never at war or no longer at war etc
The eccomic migrants .

OrangesCinammonIvy · 16/11/2025 22:21

@SummerFeverVenice really worked and still need UC ?
I'm sure places like austriala require you to support yourself.

Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:20

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Can you throw all of ours out too? That'd be good.

SummerFeverVenice · 16/11/2025 22:20

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Well we are sending a bunch to Ukraine soon, maybe some will go to Gaza.

BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:19

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Happyjoe · 16/11/2025 22:19

OrangesCinammonIvy · 16/11/2025 22:16

And any technicality can give a reason for someone to stay like the famous chicken nugget case.
Suddenly finding god or suddenly becoming gay

This is where the Home office must buck up their ideas. Plus, I think if I had to choose over living in a war torn country or not, I'd say I was gay or a Christian too. I think many would, it's called self-preservation.

SummerFeverVenice · 16/11/2025 22:18

SpaceRaccoon · 16/11/2025 22:15

It tends to be obvious. There's so many in some areas there's even a name for them - freshies.

🥴 pray tell, please share the critical thinking that goes into visually identifying a “migrant” vs a British citizen?

is it a checklist that starts with

  • pasty complexion but not ginger?
OrangesCinammonIvy · 16/11/2025 22:16

And any technicality can give a reason for someone to stay like the famous chicken nugget case.
Suddenly finding god or suddenly becoming gay

Julen7 · 16/11/2025 22:16

SpaceRaccoon · 16/11/2025 22:15

It tends to be obvious. There's so many in some areas there's even a name for them - freshies.

God you can’t say that on here 🙄

BeefFriedChips · 16/11/2025 22:16

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