The People demand that the Boats are Stopped.

[noblegiraffe]

I keep reading about the Tory government working hard to deliver the people's priorities:

"Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Government are focused on five immediate priorities. We will halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut NHS waiting lists and stop the boats."

Halve inflation (will happen anyway), grow the economy (vague), reduce debt (vague), cut NHS waiting lists (maybe by paying nurses and doctors more?), stop the boats (what?).

Maybe it's just where I live, but I'm not seeing this immediate urgent need to "stop the boats". It's certainly nowhere near my top 5 priorities for the government to be immediately tackling. If it was, I'd probably look at creating legal routes for genuine asylum seekers as a first step rather than shipping them to Rwanda.

Is it in your top 5 urgent government priorities? Are they speaking to the people and I've just completely missed it?

YABU: Stopping the boats is in my top 5 government priorities.
YANBU: I'm more concerned about something else and would bump Stop the Boats down the list.

You're wrong. There not legal routes for those from 99% of countries

Is that you, Rishi? Is this a parody account? You have no problem with middle class immigration? Dear lord.
But who's going to clean the middle class houses and nanny the middle class children?
Heaven forbid the working classes should take up any space.

Lots of things are more important: health, social care, education, general cost of living. I can't stand that expression 'THE people' anyway; suggests that everyone must think the same, and dissent must be crushed,

It's like when they say 'our' NHS. Sets my teeth on edge.

Why do you care about it?

40% racist Tory voters. Sad but true.

Exactly!!
Maybe we could GET some boats for the UKIP voters & send them in the other direction?

Are there many refugees and asylum seekers in the UK? No. According to UNHCR statistics, as of November 2022 there were 231,597 refugees, 127,421 pending asylum cases and 5,483 stateless persons in the UK including recent Ukrainians refugees. That's only half a per cent (0.54%) of the UK's total population.

EDUCATION, HOSPITALS & SOCIAL CARE ARE WAY MORE IMPORTANT. PLEASE STOP VOTING TORY BECAUSE OF SOME MISGUIDED NOTION THAT WE ARE BEING INVADED!!!!

Well, the people of Dover obviously don't think it's a priority!

@RatatouilleAndFeta nobody knows how many are here. Supermarket data and water companies data suggests the population of the U.K. is much higher than is recorded.

The people coming in on boats often try to avoid the authorities. There have been press articles on them escaping into the night, coming into local peoples homes and demanding to use the phone because they need to get somewhere and are avoiding the police, hiding in peoples front gardens, bins full of passports where people are better off without ID because they're not actually eligible for asylum.

When the authorities have been called they try to deny this happens or simply don't care.

You do realize that that it’s this attitude that led to Brexit. Calling anyone that cares about immigration racist. Keep going. You do a stellar job in shooting your own cause in the foot.

Yes because someone has been around the country all of them including the ones that no one knows about, living and working in the underground economy. The naïveté is staggering.

@Swrigh1234 👏👏👏 the naivety is breathtaking !!

The racist tory voting little Britain attitudes are depressing! Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Nor have I - it's just a ridiculous caricature.

Where do you live out of interest ? You'd change your tune if you lived near me

@JustLollopingAlong why? Can you elaborate on your personal experiences to make us understand. There are a lot of people saying things like "everyone in town knows what it's like", but so far few personal experiences. One person said they were chased down the road, but didn't follow up when asked about things like police action when they reported it.

I would love to understand the nitty-gritty of what is happening in these places, bit so far it's very much friend of a friend of a friend.

What has been your experience that is so bad, it will make me want to dehumanised people and send them on a plane to Rwanda?

Justlollopong, what happens near you?

Similar to what others have said
I don't want anyone to be sent to Rowanda but I'm fed up of pp saying everything is OK
It's not

If we’re talking about experiences, a dear friend just suffered a homophobic hate crime during Eid. It’s been reported to the police.

I presume these threads are created as a means to try and persuade people not to vote Tory. And it brings out the vitriol from the people, like you, who despise the working class brexit voter, but your only tools available are to throw abuse at them. So people who don't agree with mass uncontrolled immigration for valid reasons, don't bother to post on these echo chamber threads. Or if they do, they don't stay long. But they still vote. And for some reasons the brexit / working class haters are surprised at the result of those votes. Really, if anyone should be ashamed of themselves, it's people like you.

@Jonei why do you presume all WC people are racist?

What is not ok?

Yes what happens?

Where do you live out of interest ? You'd change your tune if you lived near me

@JustLollopingAlong
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I live in a very multicultural city. There are around 40 different languages spoken in my children's school.

They have friends who's families are from Romania, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Brasil, Poland, Bulgaria, Jamaica, Ghana, Australia, Ireland all over. They are kids. They understand that people are people & it doesn't matter where they come from.

Shame the same can't be said about a lot of adults in this country.*