For thinking that the migrant protests ...

[Ihateboris]

Should be held at the council offices, Government departments, rather than the migrant hotels? After all, it's due to the government's lack of processing that the migrants are there?

Would you accept the idea that very large numbers of young men from different cultures, and with different values, could be alarming to people, and they’re perfectly entitled to feel uneasy and concerned?

People can understand the reasons you give - but they desire neither the man here now or his family later.

You must surely know the genuine concerns people have: the shortage of housing here; the fact that new arrivals may be poorly educated and speak little to no English; that they may have health concerns putting further strain on a stretched NHS; that they will be working in low-skilled jobs and we don’t need that type of immigration; that added to the financial strain, cultural differences are an arguably bigger problem; they make people uneasy, frightened and less trusting - etc.

Perhaps people feel it’s important the migrants know the level of feeling towards them trying to illegally enter the country?

Bit late when they’re already here.

I don't think they should be happening at all, it's a really poor way to go about things.

Yeah, it must be far better to live in the UK than in the EU, they're actually risking their lives crossing the channel in small boats. It's incredibly dangerous.

What' have asylum seekers done to the country?

I can also huge number of things that the Tory government did to the country.
I can name some things Labour have got wrong in trying to fix problems.
I can name a lot that reform and those on their side of the political divide are doing.

I can name some things that individuals have done that are not acceptable (not strong enough words I know) in the civilised world.

But I don't think blaming the many for the acts of the few is acceptable either. Any protest should be done through your MP, and that is where any protests should be in my opinion.

@TheLizardQueen I live in a city with the highest concentration of asylum seekers in the UK. Yes, we see them out and about for a walk. Sometimes we see them having a kickabout in the park. You wouldn’t even register if you saw a few white men having a game of football or walking down the street.

The only reason the sight frightens you is because they’re brown.

But loads, absolutely loads of the asylum seekers are white!
It's not racist. They are white.
Albanians, Kurds, Afghanis, even Syrians - most of these people identify as white.

How do you know they are jobless, have restraining orders and don’t see their kids? Bit judgemental much.

I'm very glad that our behaviour as a country does not quite go as far as to riddle people with holes when they are looking for somewhere safe. It's sad to read the glee with which that comment is made. I am proud not to belong to a country that treats people like that.

Yes- I mean it’s obvious people would be desperate to flee such a country where life is so cheap to a place of safety, isn’t it?

The UK has voted for political parties that promise to lower immigration for twenty years, and nothing has happened - the speed has only massively increased. There has been more immigration to this country in the last twenty years than in the whole of the preceding thousand years. If voting does not work, writing to MP’s does not work, the political process as a whole fails to uphold the will of the voters - what do the electorate do?

For many immigrants life is not cheap in this country at all. Don't believe all that you read.

A significant number of them have criminal convictions for domestic abuse.

Two out of every five people arrested after participating in last summer’s riots had been previously reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose.

Police data released under freedom of information (FoI) laws shows that 41% of 899 people arrested for taking part in the violent disorder last July and August had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.

For those arrested by one police force, this figure was as high as 68%.

Not at all surprising!

I was backing up your point 😂😭

Sorry, I misread, I need more sleep!

They’re the working class, so it’s apparently fine to smear them as uneducated and stupid. Judge away, go to town. Then you don’t have to pay attention to their problems or complaints. Especially on Mumsnet, it’s a smug middle class bubble. Anyone could see Brexit coming down the pipeline if they were paying attention, but the comfortable middle classes write off those they see as inferior. Same thing now with immigration. They proclaim their horror and claim they don’t understand how we could have arrived at this point, when it was obvious that this would be the destination. They think that shouting people down and dismissing their concerns actually works. They could have learned, but no…

Exactly this

They were riots though, of course that’s going to attract violent idiots. You can’t assume that people protesting are all jobless perverts on the register who have neglected their kids.

I think the relatively few loud racists feel that this is important.

The silent majority in my opinion are ok with controlled migration and genuine refugees.

Good luck with this argument ✊

Of course they're looking for a better life - many are coming from countries where they're persecuted for various reasons, eg speaking out against a totalitarian regime or because they belong to a minority group that was oppressed.

More than two thirds with a record of domestic abuse? Purportedly concerned about women and children’s safety. Scepticism doesn’t seem unreasonable.