AIBU to think something significant needs to be done by the government to stop these horrific events occurring?

Agree.

Leaving the Dublin agreement has made it tough though as there simply isn’t room, unless we start building massive detention facilities.

it also hasn’t helped that we’ve lost access to Schengen databases. Farage and Brexit have created much of the immigration issue themselves.

what we need is much faster processing of asylum applications as well, get them turned round and sent home straight away if they don’t have a valid application.

You mean we should be willing to pay decent wages for those jobs ?

It’s not about training, it’s about making that kind of hard work attractive.

And then do what - tell the coastguards to get out there quick and rescue them !!?

If we need NHS and care staff we should better train our own people and in the meantime we use labour from those culturally similar to us.

Recipe books exist for food.

Look at the what tolerance and multiculturalism brings though. Not exactly the best overall.

We are not Germany.

We are known for being accepting and tolerant of hundreds of migrant communities. It is what makes Britain such an amazing place to live. Our capital is run by a Muslim mayor, who is as British as they come. And figures show that the more diverse a community is, the less likely they are to vote for far right parties.

It is fear and not experience that leads people to call for wholesale bans on immigration. And the high number of people on this thread wanting to ban Muslims and Black people from coming here tells me you haven’t spent time in environments where you encounter immigrants as people. You see them as a homogeneous mass of “invaders” who somehow threaten our way of life.

Our hospitals and care homes and hospitality industries are populated by migrants, so I hope you don’t get ill or need care or enjoy a takeaway from India or China.

Or maybe I do hope you get ill and need care because you might then encounter Mohammed and Aysha and Latisha and see that they are as human as you and I and have the same dreams, cares and worries that we do.

No one is saying 'it's just foreigners'. And no one is saying VAWG isn't an issue across the population. However you should look at the German data here. You'd probably say most rapes in Germany are committed by white German men, wouldn't you? Totally ignoring the per capita proportions.

In data from Germany (which as you know is similar to the UK), although they make up only 2.5 per cent of the population, asylum-seekers made up 13.1 per cent of all sexual-assault suspects in 2021.

Germany and the UK - not so different.

Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable - A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Andrew Hammel 2024

The Germany-wide statistics on sexual violence were sobering. An internal study by the German federal law enforcement agency, leaked to a Zurich newspaper, revealed that asylum-seekers have committed some 7,000 sexual assaults (ranging from groping to gang-rape ) between 2015 and 2023.

Although they make up only 2.5 per cent of the population, asylum-seekers made up 13.1 per cent of all sexual-assault suspects in 2021.

In 2023, there were 761 gang-rapes registered in Germany — almost two per day; 47.5 per cent of the suspects were foreigners. The frequency of such crimes — which were rare in Germany as late as the 1990s — has hovered between 600 and 800 per year for the past 7 years. The statistics go on for page after mind-numbing (or mind-boggling) page.

Nancy Faeser, Germany’s Interior Minister from the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) also said something which would have been branded far-right provocation just a few years ago: “We have to talk about the rise in crime by foreigners”.

German politicos and journalists have long suppressed discussions of why certain groups of foreigners are overrepresented in crime statistics; Section 12 of the official German press code even forbids identifying the ethnic ancestry of criminals to combat “discrimination”.

Any references to “crime by foreigners” as a distinct problem were met with charges of xenophobia and racism. What has moved the Overton Window is a stream of grim crime statistics published by government agencies or, just as frequently, leaked to journalists.

https://archive.ph/QqLJo#selection-867.0-873.344 Accessible link

https://thecritic.co.uk/germany-is-acknowledging-the-unspeakable/

We do use drones, helicopters and aircraft.

We do use drones, helicopters and aircraft.

Australia used planes to check their coast. We could use planes, helicopters or drones

Are you prepared to accept beheadings in order to get your "high quality Eastern European" joiner? There are plenty of high quality British joiners btw. You just have to pay them their going rate.

I think about this. In the UK if attacked or robbed or burgled you cower in fear and hope they don't hurt you and let yourself get robbed. In America they think "no you can't" and neutralise the threat. The American mentality is today defend yourself and your property. People shoot home invaders dead.

They need to round up every single one of the fuckers and kick them out straight back where they came from.Poland has the right idea. They refuse to take any of them

We've had people from Islamic countries living and working alongside us for decades, their children and grandchildren now who are British, with no problem. There are bound to be some bad apples as there are in every ethnicity, they are the ones publicised.

I’d like to see a fresh vote on the EU. I have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Eastern European/Ukranians settling here, they behave themselves and are respectful of our values.
id like to see 0 immigrants from Islamic countries whatsoever

He was never a part of HM Government