How bothered are you about Small Boats?

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I think the idea that people think Small Boats with illegal immigrants on them is a really pressing issue is made up by politicians to have something to campaign on. Am I right? Is this a pressing issue as far as you're concerned?

I'm not really talking about immigration/ asylum seekers in general, just the small boats everyone keeps mentioning. If you're worried about people dying in the channel I get that, but do you think people finding their way here illegally is a major issue for our country at the moment?

I think it's clear I don't but I will accept I'm wrong about this being a made up issue if the majority disagree with me.

If you want to vote YABU= this is one of my top ten concerns. YANBU = I don't think it's a top ten issue for the country.

True. Just pointing out however, that current Sunak/ Tory/ right wing press strategy is to blame everything on Starmer and Labour. When they haven't been in power for the last 13 years. Saying that Labour's future plans for everything will ruin the economy, won't " stop the boats" and all the other shit they come out with, is a bit lame really.

Geez make a meal out of finding a post. Read @Lastchancechica and see links

It’s not hard

The Tories are finished. Doesn't matter how much scaremongering is vomited on social media between now and the GE. The right wing's days are numbered. Tick tock.

You didn't tell us before what the eye watering woke agenda was and you're not providing proven evidence of one now.

An excellent illustration of how much the political landscape has changed since the last general election, see also, the North Shropshire, Somerton and Frome and Selby and Aintsy by-elections for more evidence of this.

This is horrible. 😭
And I agree with you entirely. Some of these are highly qualified people it's such a shit system

Go on then, find the post, and copy for us. Ta very much.

Find me one post on this thread that suggests that economic migration should be banned. I challenge you!

Posters have suggested that economic migrants shouldn't be able to use small boats to gain access to the UK but that is not the same as wanting a blanket ban on economic migration.

That's what you said before when you couldn't respond to people's questions.

"He"?

Op has gone a bit quiet. Not the answer she imagined would be forthcoming, unthinkable from the Islington echo chamber.

We are all supposed to shut up, “be kind”, stop calling ourselves women and lay out the royal red carpet for the latest gangster running his people smuggling/drugs/guns racket. Such a lovely man. Always makes time for the kids.
Borders, who needs borders when we have millions arriving to clean the house, and ‘wipe my bum’ and work on the farms! Anyone for an organic herbal tea?

What’s scaremongering out of interest

The increase in movement of people? I’d say that’s a given

I doubt we’ll buck the overall trend for right wing increase as communities get strained. Hence increase in EU atm

Starmer can promise to ‘smash the gangs’. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes

Jeez it’s so sweet that you are hanging on my every word guys, but let’s get back to the people dying in the channel shall we?

Why does it matter how an economic migrant gets to the UK?

Do people really think that the number of economic migrants crossing the Channel in small boats is a problem? Last year was the biggest number on record, that number would not fill the UKs largest village.

Good description of the Conservative Party

Ha no. Use your own thumbs I’m not your PA

You’re posting enough to have time to find it

Now where did we hear that before??? Polls in the bag - dead certainty - brainwashing on tap of world ending scenarios. Let’s not say the word that starts with….. B

No idea but a student of mine applied from a camp in Syria after his home was blown up and his Mum, Dad and siblings all killed. He was injured badly. His uncle who is a doctor applied to bring him, his wife 2 DD's and his nephew, who was my student. All could speak perfect English and his Uncle had already spent about 8 or 9 years living in UK at medical school before going back home to Syria getting married and starting his family. My student went to the school I worked in, an independent school for 2 years before I left. Even then the grandparents stayed in Syria. My student told me his grandparents gave his Uncle almost every penny they had to help him set up in UK and bring him too. They had to have enough points and pay to come.

I can sense another Labour u turn..

What wasn't the answer I was expecting? that 60% of the people I asked would agree with me? You have been very vocal over the last few pages but actually not many people are supporting what you were saying.

There are many people who have disagreed with me - and each other - who haven't resorted to goading right-wing epithets like you've spouted. That divisive language is one example of why I hate ridiculous tropes like the Small Boats thing. It means nothing. NOTHING. Islington echochamber. Woke agenda. Polly wants a cracker.

I'm not bothered if they are economic migrants. My dad was an economic migrant (Ireland). My maternal great-grandparents were economic migrants (Sweden), my grandfather-in- law (Poland) and my grandmother-in-law (Belgium) were economic migrants (well, maybe not the grandfather escaping nazis tbf).
I bet you will find in most families there are migrants along the family tree.

I'm just so grateful that I was lucky to born in a good country, with good work opportunities, no war, no suppression of my human rights especially based on my gender. Like wtf did I do to be born here, in the UK? I didn't choose it. I got lucky. Whether the migrants are fleeing persecution or just looking for better work and money, they never chose to be born In Afghanistan or Eritrea or Albania, they just did not get lucky. We have a human responsibility for to help them each other

I take it, you like me can't find the post then. Strange that.

Tbf SELT is in countries outside UK. Looking at that most counties seem to be on there

https://skillsforenglish.com/test/selt-test-availability/

Who is Polly? A Labour spokesperson. Resorting to parrots 🦜
I have no idea what you are talking about.
If you had been on here for as long as I have, you would know MN is very very left wing. To get a reaction like this, speaks volumes about the subject.

No just strange you demand others to do your scrolling. You presumably have eyes and a thumb.