Stopping the boats.

[Scenicgirl]

Honest question.
When Rishi Sunak announced the promise to tackle Channel migrant crossings as one of his five key pledges at the beginning of 2023, and subsequently failed and Keir Starmer appearing not to be concerned about the numbers arriving daily, when other EU countries have taken a much sterner stance sending a clear message, why can't we stop/pause the boats?

For absolutely everyone who wants to come??

They only get about £50 a week, housing and access to the NHS. They're hardly in the lap of luxury. They also don't choose where they're sent to live. The home office have also lost hundreds of kids to god knows where.

Hilariously, -for all of you who voted Leave on the racist ticket - it's got that much harder to police our border after Brexit.

Also, we actually need these immigrants to do all sorts of jobs we Brits are unwilling to do. We need young people, as we're not breeding enough.

Exactly this. Especially this nonsense on every thread

Some repeats of the usual nonsense on here. No. Brexit is nothing to do with it. The Dublin agreement returned tiny numbers and we took more in than we returned.

I don't think it would
As someone else said the smugglers feed a lot of lies so would still claim they would get handed a good lifestyle.
I think we need information campaigns in origin countries telling would br migrants harsh realities and also warning of modern slavery.

I think illegal arrivals benefits package should be standardised across Europe. It’s not high here, but it’s staggeringly expensive cos hotel owners see it as a licence to print money.

Lambeth council near me is investigating what they’re paying hotels to house migrants as it’s often £4k a month per person. Easily £4k. Lambeth is struggling to provide child and elderly services to us natives.

Apart from that, once you’ve got leave to remain, you get residents’ benefits ie the same as the locals in that country. That’s what appeals about Britain.

In Blighty these benefits are low but they’re for life - eg housing - which is the attraction.

It’s ludicrous to complain racism is the objection to illegal migrants. Most of our refugees where I work are white, whereas the people who are having their care services and schools cut are black. And not millionaires either, on the whole. London, (where all the migrants want to stay) is like that.

This 💯

Given that you've already assessed all of their claims, perhaps you could volunteer your services with the Home Office to help clear the backlog?

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The numbers coming at the moment are tiny compared to what is to come as climate change unfolds. It's baffling that the people who hate immigration the most are also likely to also be anti net zero / climate sceptics. The next 50-100 years will be interesting.

That may be difficult what with the being extinct and all.

Weren't we supposed to be getting sharks in UK waters anyway if global warming increased? Forget Reform and protesting against immigration. Instead fire up the diesel guzzlers, increase to as many flights as you can and litter with abandon.

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Australia ‘stopped the boats’ and we have a bloody enormous coastline. The way you do it is to treat everyone arriving like absolute shit. Dump all of them in detention (aka jail) then ship them off to remote locations for processing, which takes years. We favoured Nauru, an island which is getting hammered by climate change too so we’re f*cking them over every which way.

But you have to be indiscriminate- every single one of them is processed this way. Then when you do allow them into the country you put them on special visas that don’t allow them to work or attend education. I don’t know about health I assume/hope something is provided.

Then when - shocker - some of them steal to boost their income the opposition screams that the government is letting criminals into the country and demands even harsher treatment.

In the 1970s we had boat refugees arriving from Vietnam and there was a bipartisan approach to it so the racists and rednecks couldn’t get any traction with their hate. Now the grandchildren of those people are going to school with my kids and banh mi is everyone’s favourite lunch and we can’t imagine life without Vietnamese migrants.

But in 2001 the right wing government of the day weaponised asylum seekers for political purposes and it won them the election. And now the genie is out of the bottle. Racism and xenophobia are vote winners. And when our now Labor government tries to improve things the dementor who is the opposition leader rallies all his right wing media supporters to attack them.

However, I will acknowledge that processing claims is extraordinarily difficult. People destroy their documents. Adult men claim to be children. It isn’t simple or straightforward but you get better outcomes for everyone if you don’t politicise it. And if people stop salivating over Daily Mail articles and remember these are humans.

Because the majority are not asylum seekers. They are economic migrants.

100% agree

Also agree!

while the idea of escorting boats back to international waters or returning migrants to their country of origin may seem like a straightforward solution to the issue of Channel crossings, it is complicated by legal, humanitarian, and ethical considerations.

How do we 'stop the boats'.

Turn any young men immediately back where they've come from.

Stop pretending that boats full of blokes need saving. From anywhere.

Flick boats of men back to whence they came.

I'm not interested in swarms of men. I don't care.

The government doesn't just want anyone to have kids.
They want the middle classes to have more kids.

Everyone on benefits should be made to do a job - any surplus jobs left over then let the low skilled migrants in to cover that.

(Not including people with physical and mental limitations that are on benefits.)

And if we have climate refugees?

What are you going to do?

Stop everyone presumably?

There was a news report that our border force have actually arrested some of the people operating the small boats & destroyed the boats & life preservers they were in possession of. If this kind of thing can be expanded, then we can stop anyone being able to get on a small boat & mean they won't be spending thousands for a place. Then we need to process the people wanting to come over in France & send anyone not eligible back to where they originate from.

They shouldn't be placed in prime places like London.
They should be put up in poor towns until they have been given asylum or deported immediately if not.

Mate.

Please.

Do not call yourself 'RogueFemale' and then Wang on about racism and Brexit.

Hilariously, your brand of feminism is not promulgated by the blokes on the boats.

Make a blanket policy that no migrant will be housed in any of the 5 largest cities in the UK.

And then make a PR campaign abroad to spread that.

People aren't breeding because the western quality of life is going down the shitter, it's horrifying that instead of improving the housing situation and mental health crisis in young people they're using immigrants to do the work instead and that deranged lefties cheer about it.