To wonder if there'll be a revolt?

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In the country that's stretched to its limits, today it was announced that Keir has agreed with Mr Macron that just 50 illegal migrants per week will be sent away.

I know so many people are totally fed up with the state of the country.

Will there be protests?

That's terrible, do you have any evidence?

Let’s unpack the Okinawa fantasy first. Japan has some of the most tight immigration controls in the world. The entire foreign population of Japan is just under 3% so the idea of 800,000 Swedes moving to a Japanese island of 1.3 million and erasing their culture via the establishment of an IKEA on every corner and meatballs for dinner every night is a laughably unrealistic description of immigration.

Multiculturalism doesn’t erase culture, it adds to it and Britain has a long-standing history of diverse ethnic groups. It goes back to my earlier comment of 'they are here because we were there', Britain established itself as the metropole of an empire and so people around the world looked to it as their mother country, they grew up in cultures that had been (forcibly) British-ified. Britain didn’t become “less British” by incorporating other cultures. Culture mixes and adapts.

You say you’re clinging to your identity, but no one’s stopping you from watching Fawlty Towers or reading Wodehouse, Austen has not been outlawed. If your cultural identity is so fragile that the presence of a Turkish barber on the high street sends it into a tailspin, maybe the problem isn’t immigration.

As for the Kalahari Bushman? Bit awkward. Colonised people weren’t upset about too many foreigners moving in, they were upset about being erased by force and that is absolutely not what is happening in Britain. Comparing that to you feeling weird about immigration is, frankly, wild. If you're pining for Austen era values and the days of the Empire, you're not the underdog in the immigration debate.

Ultimately you’re not under attack. You’re just aging in a changing world and blaming brown people for it which, to be fair, is a long-standing British tradition.

Oh may ne just do the numbers. Duh!

Asylum seekers are about 6% of the population and the people coming on boats make up around half of those. So 3% of the population are going to quickly take over..

We have plenty. It’s not against the benefit rules, as long as they pop their heads in the U.K now and then.
I’ve had someone who asked for an interpreter speak to me in perfect English after an IUC tell me they’ll carry on doing it and it’s rife! They’ll bring the kids passports with them and show them to us- nothing we can do.

There were signs, after it was announced, that there was a noticeable deterrent effect.

Ireland saw a significant increase in numbers of asylum applications and the journalist Peter Conradi spoke to migrants in Calais who told him they feared the policy.

I thought you weren't allowed to be out of the country for more than 30 days if you're on benefits.

Well, that begs the question: Why didn't he wait until the scheme was in place and go for an October GE ?

He'd have stayed as PM.

What you mean by "signs" is anecdotal evidence, even Cleverly called it a bat shit policy.

Sending 1% of x channel migrants to Rwanda isn't a deterrent.

I don’t understand how you can truly say how many people are entering the country illegally when even the government website with the figures acknowledges that the numbers are only the ones they have caught.

@MugsyBalonz

"Multiculturalism doesn’t erase culture, it adds to it"

You are making the mistake of presenting your opinion as objective fact. It is an entirely valid and respectable opinion, but it is still just an opinion, and one not everybody shares. There are many people who do not feel that our culture has been improved by mass immigration. And whilst you are correct that there have long been pockets of culturally foreign people in Britain, vast isolated and independent groups maintaining their own way of life and imposing their own values and customs on their host nation is new. A lot of people feel that immigration is one thing, but encouraging segregated ‘communities’ is another entirely, especially when some of these groups have quite contradictory views and values to the main.

Is this correct? no residency rules? UC able to be claimed, so job seekers allowance claimed?

I understand some PIP and Carers allowances are payable, same as pensions are paid to overseas residents

Both France and Spain on a proportional basis take more than the UK.

@JHound . We need zero immigration. The country is at breaking point.

I think we are heading for a world with a tiny affluent class and a huge service class with very few traditional middle or working class people in-between. The affluent class don't care who the service class will be or what their lives will be like as long as the services come cheap.

How would you stop people coming to the UK - it would be no different under Farage.

It's not new. In Victorian England, certain newspapers were bemoaning the "alien invasion" and spoke of immigrants living in exclusionary groups, shunning British culture in favour of their own. Photo is an example of one such article from 1902. It's ever been this when it comes to immigration, the only difference now is that you have the likes of Farage and GBeebies using it as a dog whistle to stir up anti-immigration rhetoric.

It's very simple. Anyone entering the UK is immediately returned to there home country and barred from the UK for life.

I don't know why people who are worried about billionaires and wealth redistribution and the NHS aren't more concerned about the traditional parties seemingly having no plans to take on Reform on this issue.

Sorry but if that’s the case, forget state pensions. We can’t pay them without migration.

“there”

GDP per capita is going down. The current state of affairs is unsustainable.

Really? Like the values that mean at least two women per week are murdered by their intimate partner/ex. Or the values that mean rape is defacto legalised. Those values?

It is not simple at all.

Many countries refuse point blank to take back citizens who have fled their country of origin, then there are countries where we have no transport links with because they are at war.

France refuses to take back migrants or have refused, thank Brexit for that.

Your solutions are simplistic and unworkable.

You speak as if we’ve never had an unpopular government before. I can remember right back to the first Wilson government in the 60’s and I can’t remember any of them being popular. Have you forgotten the last decade??

Because I'm talking about asylum seekers.