Statement by the Chair of the Conservative Party

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"If they don't like barges they should fuck off back to France". 30p Lee Anderson of course, not the BNP. Not the National Front or whatever their current name is. The Chairman of the Conservative Party. Supporters must be so proud. What a statesman. So Churchillian.

The irony is that if we were within the EU we would have had more control over who comes here. Brexit is responsible for more people coming here.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-english-channel-migrants-small-boats-b2277505.html

Once upon a time, we had a grown up and respectful political discourse, now we have this man speaking in a way that would get you sacked in most jobs. It's absolutely revolting.

Yes but this would encourage even more migrants. Why should we take endless numbers of these men?

Oh, but they have.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23698615.oliver-dowden-safety-fears-asylum-barge-politically-motivated/

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again, very important to remember that what may look like gross snobbery and sexism in fact isn’t when left wing people do it. It is a demonstration of how much more educated and intelligent than you they are, and you should immediately adopt their beliefs and attitudes (well to the extent you can, you idiotic prole).

If we just put in place an efficient asylum processing process, the problem would be massively ameliorated. Those with no valid claim would be deported, those with a valid claim would move into the general population where they become the responsibility of separate housing authorities; and most will move into employment (where they are sorely needed) and will therefore be able to move towards renting for themselves. In due course many may end up buying their own properties and, indeed, some will follow the trajectory of immigrants who have set up very successful businesses and become massive contributors to the economy. Who knows, a future Home Secretary may spring from their ranks ...

The Tories created that situation

If he can edge Nadine out and precipitate another embarrassing by-election for the Tories, he will indeed have achieved well.

@Twyford yes but it would massively increase the numbers. Do we want what would be hundreds of thousands of damaged young men with potentially unsavoury attitudes towards women coming to the uk?

What a charmer, not.

Well, if that's our standard comparator, great. Let's house Tory MPs on the barge, we don't need to pay for their second homes in London when we can offer them something safer than a cladded tower block, do we?

You’re allowed to say it. You just did. What you can’t do is prevent people thinking poorly of you for it.

Seeing as this has all happened under a Tory govt, are you really saying that you will vote for more of the same?

@Breakoutbertha the Tories put them there and you hate it, so you're going to vote for them to carry on?! Make it make sense...

@AgathaSpencerGregson I'm not left wing , so you are making judgements there. I came from his area till I was 30 - it is full of women (of all income levels) going along with anything a bloke says providing he's bringing home the bacon- . The man still rules in that neck of the world. I'm going to bet you aren't from that background at all. As it happens I am not very sympathetic to those who could have stayed in France however if we had proper processes that could be done from a distance there would be fewer risking it- reasons they risk it? Often have family here and at one point there were gangs of native Brits over in their countries taking cash and feeding them shit about how easy it all was in the UK. Maybe Lee Anderson could actually say this in a factual dispassionate away -- rather than f* off if you don't like it- he knows that appeals more though

It was our Labour council that approved it.

Yet again, when will people get it through their heads that there is no "first safe country" rule for refugees, not least because if that were the case then the countries neighbouring trouble spots like Ukraine and Afghanistan would be wholly unable to cope. It's inevitable that refugees have to go through other countries to get to us, because we're an island. Does that mean we should never, ever take refugees? Should that have been our attitude back in the 1930s?

Do you think that a Tory council would've refused it?

Despite the men being sent to your area by, a Tory government?

Would you have been "so grateful" if you were told that you would only be allowed off the barge in very limited circumstances, that you would be sharing a room with a stranger, that the barge was built for a fraction of the numbers who were going to be living there, that everyone else (including large numbers of men) would be in the same situation cooped up all day so your safety could not be guaranteed - and that in the event of fire the chances were that you wouldn't escape?

The Lab council approved a Travellodge to house men placed by a Tory Home Office?

Hotels up and down are opting to house them for the Tories as it’s lucrative.

The Tories have created the crisis via Brexit and winding down of processing.

If you voted Tory previously, this is what you voted for so enjoy.

https://www.hotelmanagement-network.com/news/private-firms-profit-from-uks-asylum-hotels/

Thing is it's so obvious it's propaganda.

Use rhetoric. Incite hated. Try and show the British people they are on their side and will stop the boats.

But this floating hotel houses 500.

It's not stopping the boats.

What happens to the next asylum seekers who arrive.

And the next.

And the next and so on.

They don't have any actual viable plans to process asylum claims and have turned down a partnership with France to create safe passage.

So we basically end up with large groups of disenfranchised males living together on a barge designed for half the number of people, that's unsafe and battered whipped up between asylum seekers and the people in the country they are seeking asylum in.

They aren't solving the problem. They are deliberately kicking it down the road to blame Labour later on as they are starting to be held to a point for the fact they are blaming Labour for their mistakes the past 13 years and people have stopped buying it.

I'd happily swap any of the incoming immigrants with 30p Lee - if he likes Rwanda so much, he can prove it by fucking off there and staying there.

Same goes for all the other idiots who've fallen for this depressingly jingoistic/racist bullshit about 'small boats.' Urgh.

When did I say that was what I was advocating?

What I want is that the Tories should focus on an efficient asylum processing system so that people don't have to be kept together like this, and so that non-genuine claimants can be deported.