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Migrants get up to £2000 on bankcard after prison sentences

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Ihatetomatoes · 24/09/2025 22:14

Just watched 47 migrants being deported, costing hundreds of thousands, private flights, huge number of security guards, the migrants then get given cash cards! Back to Romania after committing crimes here including murder, sexual offences, pedophiles with money to help them resettle in their own country.

ITV news - our own go hungry and cold.

We are total mugs here in the UK.

On a separate story migrants having taxis to appointments, free NHS. I mean we have to get to our own way.

Mugs. No wonder many people are unhappy. These are convicted criminals, being pandered to.

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NoSoupForU · 26/09/2025 07:38

Nestingbirds · 26/09/2025 06:48

I think we should make deportations easier. Loosen the laws now given the crisis we we in. No apoeals. No second chances to exploit the system. I would go as far as to say anyone arriving here illegally is deported immediately without any processing. How can we expect to stop the trafficking and the misery if we do not address the core issues?

International law (rightly) does not allow this.

BeHappySloth · 26/09/2025 07:51

NoSoupForU · 26/09/2025 07:38

International law (rightly) does not allow this.

Some people are only concerned about the law when they think that migrants might be breaking it. The rest of us are apparently free to disregard it.

lljkk · 26/09/2025 07:56

Impressive how enthusiastic people are to have no due process for people on UK territory. Most of all if they aren't citizens.

World has tried that so many times and the outcomes aren't pretty.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/09/2025 08:26

NoSoupForU · 25/09/2025 21:16

I swear to God it is breathtaking how little the general public can actually comprehend.

They would be forcibly deported. The route to that is complex, long and expensive. We cannot (and should not) remove anyone's right to appeal. The FRS is only applicable for those who agree to leave without appeal.

Why should a criminal have the right to appeal? They lost their rights the minute they committed the crime.

Mlddleoftheroad · 26/09/2025 08:37

YelloDaisy · 26/09/2025 06:16

And suddenly we aren’t seeing film of the thousands arriving on the beaches - I would guess the gov have pressured the press. They know it gets clicks so why suddenly stop it?

Tin foil hat territory.
Perhaps some of the stuff behind the scenes is working.
Perhaps it's too dangerous right now due to weather.
Perhaps the media have decided to get a grip on their outrage.

Mlddleoftheroad · 26/09/2025 08:39

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/09/2025 08:26

Why should a criminal have the right to appeal? They lost their rights the minute they committed the crime.

History shows that society doesn't always make the right decision. Look at the the post office and horizon. You would remove the postmasters right to appeal?

Menopausalsourpuss · 26/09/2025 09:03

I think this is wrong - plenty/most countries in the world (including the US) do exactly this. All other countries in the world will not put asylum seekers up in hotels - in France they seem to be put up in tents. Why do leftists think we are special - we won't be when we're bankrupt (very soon).

MsJinks · 26/09/2025 09:39

Menopausalsourpuss · 26/09/2025 07:31

I don't expect them to get here at all - we are a small cold bankrupt island 100s or 1000s of miles from their country - why do they need (or want) to come here? I don't think the Chinese or Japanese people agonise like this about the rest of the world. To my mind its a remnant of Empre and colonisation and the narcissists in govt having delusions we're a great power that and they can rescue the world (they can't) with our money, something lefties usually dislike. I wish our govts would just butt out of other countries affairs and concentrate on British citizens of all races.

Ok - but these resettlements were internationally agreed - US, France, Germany and many more also took their share and generally many more than we did. Part of the 2 I mentioned were related to us being in their countries and/or involved in bombing them. China and Japan weren’t there and didn’t have that responsibility.
We also promised the Afghans who fought alongside us, or were interpreters they’d be ok, as the Taliban definitely didn’t seem to care for who they deemed as traitors. You’d break promises and abandon people to torture?
Breaking international agreements and/or promises would isolate the U.K. further and make us ultimately a bit of a pariah state unable to have support when we need it and impacting on our economy.
It’s not all about just us - we need global alliances and trade and it’s therefore helpful to be agreeable to responsibilities as well as benefits.
I can agree we shouldn’t be bombing people into camps, being refugees - I can also agree we should supply more foreign aid to support people in other countries - which may alleviate some humanitarian problems- but not many people seem to agree with that.

MsJinks · 26/09/2025 09:44

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/09/2025 08:26

Why should a criminal have the right to appeal? They lost their rights the minute they committed the crime.

Well sure - Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, postmasters, Sally Clarke, and currently there’s been a thread on here about Lucy Letby.
Everyone should have access to an appeal within the parameters of the law.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water was the saying when I was a kid - don’t throw your rights away with the migrants is one you should hear in mind.

Hardhaton1 · 26/09/2025 10:00

MsJinks · 26/09/2025 09:44

Well sure - Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, postmasters, Sally Clarke, and currently there’s been a thread on here about Lucy Letby.
Everyone should have access to an appeal within the parameters of the law.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water was the saying when I was a kid - don’t throw your rights away with the migrants is one you should hear in mind.

None of the examples you’ve given were being deported or freed.
The appeals in this case are not appeals against the sentence or the conviction but the right to stay in the UK post-conviction
Entirely different kettle of fish

nomas · 26/09/2025 10:29

Menopausalsourpuss · 26/09/2025 09:03

I think this is wrong - plenty/most countries in the world (including the US) do exactly this. All other countries in the world will not put asylum seekers up in hotels - in France they seem to be put up in tents. Why do leftists think we are special - we won't be when we're bankrupt (very soon).

Unemployed British people, mainly white, cost the tax payer tens of billions of pounds every where.

As a higher rate taxpayer, am I supposed to be happy my taxes are spent on funding the above people’s benefit rather than asylum seekers?

Because it’s all the same to me. At least most of the Brits can find a job if they wanted to, asylum seekers don’t have that option.

MrsSkylerWhite · 26/09/2025 10:33

2dogsandabudgie · 25/09/2025 10:34

I don't think the issue is the cooking itself, rather that it is a health and safety risk. Taping up fire alarms and using electricity near water is dangerous.

So is numbskulls attempting to deliberately set fire to the hotels.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/09/2025 10:46

Mlddleoftheroad · 26/09/2025 08:39

History shows that society doesn't always make the right decision. Look at the the post office and horizon. You would remove the postmasters right to appeal?

Apologies, I meant the right to appeal against deportation. If an immigrant, legal or otherwise, is convicted of a crime they should be deported, no right to appeal the deportation.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/09/2025 10:47

MsJinks · 26/09/2025 09:44

Well sure - Birmingham 6, Guildford 4, postmasters, Sally Clarke, and currently there’s been a thread on here about Lucy Letby.
Everyone should have access to an appeal within the parameters of the law.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water was the saying when I was a kid - don’t throw your rights away with the migrants is one you should hear in mind.

Apologies, I meant immigrants convicted of a crime should lose the right to appeal against deportation. I absolutely believe everyone should have the right to appeal a conviction.

nomas · 26/09/2025 12:20

Nestingbirds · 25/09/2025 18:00

‘You really don’t matter’

Every. Woman. Matters

I can’t imagine the harm you are doing with an attitude like this.

Thanks @Nestingbirds

Menopausalsourpuss · 26/09/2025 12:59

nomas · 26/09/2025 10:29

Unemployed British people, mainly white, cost the tax payer tens of billions of pounds every where.

As a higher rate taxpayer, am I supposed to be happy my taxes are spent on funding the above people’s benefit rather than asylum seekers?

Because it’s all the same to me. At least most of the Brits can find a job if they wanted to, asylum seekers don’t have that option.

No of course that is also bad you can tackle two things at once. I think very soon the benefit bill will have to be tackled as the way we are going is unsustainable and it is often more beneficial to be on benefits than minimum wage after tax which can't go on. That is another reason we are so unproductive as a country and heading to penury. That and the incompetents in charge not taking care with our money and spraying it round like confetti.

Throwmoneyatit · 26/09/2025 13:12

This situation has been going on for years. Now that we are starting deportation etc, why is everyone up in arms? Why not 7 years ago? It's not going to be a quick fix. We need to speculate to accumulate.
£2k for a no fight deportation? Brilliant, as opposed to the thousands and thousands that would be spent if they didn't agree to go back, and we'd have to pay to fight it.
Give them time, it can't be sorted overnight.

And really, it's not this situation that is making the uk haemorrhage money. Look at these huge companies not paying their taxes. Compare that amount. The media has whipped this into a huge frenzy. Why? Because it makes money for them.

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