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To start to think reform will be voted in next time, and they will be running the country

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Whatdoyouthinktothis · 03/05/2026 10:37

I’ve been a life long labour voter, but I’m starting to think reform will be elected next time
mainly just due to so many criminals that want to harm us being allowed in and allowed to stay
and uncontrolled immigration

I think they are going to win it on this reason alone
every single day there’s a news story usually more than one someone’s been raped by one of these criminals one the other day even said he didn’t understand what rape is and he thought rape was just sex

what do you all think ?
Will reform be running the country soon ?
if they are are the capable of running things in other areas ?
if they take over how do you see that actually panning out ?

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cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:24

Hallowedturf · 06/05/2026 15:13

Two people have been arrested in connection with a BBC undercover investigation into immigration advisers helping some asylum seekers pretend to be gay to stay in the country.

The coordinated raids in east London were led by the Criminal and Financial Investigations section of the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement team.
Last month BBC News revealed how migrants whose visas are due to expire are being instructed how to obtain fake evidence, including supporting letters and photographs, to support asylum claims.
The investigation secretly filmed at an event for LGBT asylum seekers where a succession of migrants told an undercover reporter that most of those attending were not genuinely gay.
The Home Office announced an investigation in response.

People shouldn’t lie. But that some do doesn’t mean no asylum seekers need sanctuary.

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:27

cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:23

The men there, the situation they are living in…yes, horrendous. But not a reason to tar everyone with t(e same brush. Particularly those who chose to leave Somalia.

A reason to be wary of them and to not let them in to be fair.

cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:28

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:27

A reason to be wary of them and to not let them in to be fair.

Is it? Should France block English men from holidays because of Fred West et all?

Jane379 · 06/05/2026 15:30

Whatdoyouthinktothis · 03/05/2026 10:37

I’ve been a life long labour voter, but I’m starting to think reform will be elected next time
mainly just due to so many criminals that want to harm us being allowed in and allowed to stay
and uncontrolled immigration

I think they are going to win it on this reason alone
every single day there’s a news story usually more than one someone’s been raped by one of these criminals one the other day even said he didn’t understand what rape is and he thought rape was just sex

what do you all think ?
Will reform be running the country soon ?
if they are are the capable of running things in other areas ?
if they take over how do you see that actually panning out ?

I feel as you do..voting Tory to try & keep them out. Hope Kemi will be OK.

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:40

Hallowedturf · 06/05/2026 15:11

So, no deliberately chucking them away, then.

Right….

Why ask if you know so much better?

It's not difficult to find out some basic facts before making these comments.

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:43

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:27

A reason to be wary of them and to not let them in to be fair.

You know there is something called an asylum process?

And how will the 'not letting them in' work? Come on, engage your brain.

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 15:47

cardibach · 06/05/2026 14:44

I’ve taught (and live near) a lot of Somalis. While the country may have its problems, the people seem fine to me.

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The conviction rates per 10,000 population for each nationality are very clear.

To start to think reform will be voted in next time, and they will be running the country
To start to think reform will be voted in next time, and they will be running the country
cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:51

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 15:47

The conviction rates per 10,000 population for each nationality are very clear.

I don’t think they keep figures by nationality do they? Or maybe they started very recently. Anyway it’s a small percentage of all races isn’t it?
Crime is wrong. Criminals should be dealt with. Policing should help reduce crime. But crime is not, in my view, a reason to deny a whole country’s citizens help and support.

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 15:52

cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:51

I don’t think they keep figures by nationality do they? Or maybe they started very recently. Anyway it’s a small percentage of all races isn’t it?
Crime is wrong. Criminals should be dealt with. Policing should help reduce crime. But crime is not, in my view, a reason to deny a whole country’s citizens help and support.

it’s a small percentage of all races isn’t it

O.M.G.

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:53

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:43

You know there is something called an asylum process?

And how will the 'not letting them in' work? Come on, engage your brain.

You don't let them in. You deport them.

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:53

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 15:47

The conviction rates per 10,000 population for each nationality are very clear.

Where is that data from?

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:53

cardibach · 06/05/2026 15:51

I don’t think they keep figures by nationality do they? Or maybe they started very recently. Anyway it’s a small percentage of all races isn’t it?
Crime is wrong. Criminals should be dealt with. Policing should help reduce crime. But crime is not, in my view, a reason to deny a whole country’s citizens help and support.

https://www.migrationcentral.co.uk/p/over-100000-foreign-national-convictions

Over 100,000 foreign national convictions in just 3 years

Between 2021 and 2023 there were 104,000 foreign national convictions in England and Wales - including tens of thousands of sexual offences, violent crime, and drug offences.

https://www.migrationcentral.co.uk/p/over-100000-foreign-national-convictions

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:55

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 15:53

You don't let them in. You deport them.

You have to let them in in order to deport them

Just checking that you know it is not illegal to claim asylum? And to claim asylum in the UK, you need to be on British soil?

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:59

Thanks

CMC, and debatable numbers

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 16:12

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:55

You have to let them in in order to deport them

Just checking that you know it is not illegal to claim asylum? And to claim asylum in the UK, you need to be on British soil?

Now you're arguing semantics. I meant not letting them stay and into our communities. I'm happy to detain and deport them.

They currently have a right to claim asylum.... In suggesting we use the law to change that.

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 16:12

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:59

Thanks

CMC, and debatable numbers

Edited

MOJ FOIs

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 16:15

TopPocketFind · 06/05/2026 15:55

You have to let them in in order to deport them

Just checking that you know it is not illegal to claim asylum? And to claim asylum in the UK, you need to be on British soil?

Clearly, the asylum system is not working for the UK.

I'm open to whichever party trying to make it work, eg deporting people immediately their asylum claim is denied, single appeal permitted - no stringing them out, asylum never given to anyone who entered illegally.

I do think actually implementing those measures might make a differnce. If not - or human rights lawyers block timely implementation - the next step is introducing immediate removal to offshore processing.

If people continue to abuse the asylum system, I'm not against the UK leaving the refugee convention. It was created for a very different world, and I'm not convinced it's fit for purpose now.

PrimeSeason · 06/05/2026 16:15

arethereanyleftatall · 03/05/2026 10:48

Well given the left have basically gone completely mad with the greens, anyone on the left now look like loons. So whilst we once had ‘anyone to keep reform out’, I think more people will now be thinking ‘anyone to keep greens out.’

This is how I feel. I’m a natural conservative but if there were a two-horse race between the Greens and Reform I fear the Greens more.

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 16:17

PrimeSeason · 06/05/2026 16:15

This is how I feel. I’m a natural conservative but if there were a two-horse race between the Greens and Reform I fear the Greens more.

Definitely!

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 16:21

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 16:15

Clearly, the asylum system is not working for the UK.

I'm open to whichever party trying to make it work, eg deporting people immediately their asylum claim is denied, single appeal permitted - no stringing them out, asylum never given to anyone who entered illegally.

I do think actually implementing those measures might make a differnce. If not - or human rights lawyers block timely implementation - the next step is introducing immediate removal to offshore processing.

If people continue to abuse the asylum system, I'm not against the UK leaving the refugee convention. It was created for a very different world, and I'm not convinced it's fit for purpose now.

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Not all countries are in it. At some point we have to prioritise UK citizens. They deserve to be safe.

EasternStandard · 06/05/2026 16:30

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 16:15

Clearly, the asylum system is not working for the UK.

I'm open to whichever party trying to make it work, eg deporting people immediately their asylum claim is denied, single appeal permitted - no stringing them out, asylum never given to anyone who entered illegally.

I do think actually implementing those measures might make a differnce. If not - or human rights lawyers block timely implementation - the next step is introducing immediate removal to offshore processing.

If people continue to abuse the asylum system, I'm not against the UK leaving the refugee convention. It was created for a very different world, and I'm not convinced it's fit for purpose now.

Edited

I think humanitarian visas are a way to go. Once people see it’s possible to do without deaths at sea no one wants to go back.

It takes a new system though, and can’t just be done via safe routes.

MsJinks · 06/05/2026 16:42

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 12:00

I didnt like the boriswave. But he did some other food things.

But you are still pleased he was voted in? What good things did he do?

So my father died alone after 3 weeks (alone) on a covid ward, my kids’ paternal grandmother died alone in a covid ward 18 hours previously- my mother had to be told from a 6 feet away gap and later we found her shoulder hadn’t set after a fall but no one had got round to x-rating it - cos Covid. The wards were horrific too btw.

I mean my parents too were pleased for Boris getting in - they never realised he and his mates were laughing and partying whilst things like this happened all over the country they presided over.

You May say this is now personal - well yes but to 1000s of others as well - let alone the impact on nearly every sector of society - to me this does outweigh anything, absolutely anything he may have done - but then again I cannot recall one single ‘good’ thing he did do.

MsJinks · 06/05/2026 16:47

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 13:51

And as for the sexual assaults, FOI requests found that men from Afghanistan and Eritrea had more than 20 times more sexual crime convictions per 10000 population of that nationality than Britons.

Each man we let in from one of those high-risk countries poses a far higher risk than a British man.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/foreigners-commit-up-to-quarter-of-sex-crimes

Well I’m not looking at that - however ‘if’ this were to be a fact, which I doubt tbh, maybe trying integration instead of trying to burn hotels down would start and be a help to helping them mmm integrate - we never learned from Windrush times and now it’s worse - ESOL funding cut, anti brown neighbours and crowds of no marks hating on them.

MsJinks · 06/05/2026 16:50

strawberrybubblegum · 06/05/2026 16:15

Clearly, the asylum system is not working for the UK.

I'm open to whichever party trying to make it work, eg deporting people immediately their asylum claim is denied, single appeal permitted - no stringing them out, asylum never given to anyone who entered illegally.

I do think actually implementing those measures might make a differnce. If not - or human rights lawyers block timely implementation - the next step is introducing immediate removal to offshore processing.

If people continue to abuse the asylum system, I'm not against the UK leaving the refugee convention. It was created for a very different world, and I'm not convinced it's fit for purpose now.

Edited

You do know that nearly the only way to make a claim for asylum here is by what is illegal entry? Obviously, it becomes non illegal once the claim is made.

I wish some government of any colour would be clearer on the facts of immigration though.

MsJinks · 06/05/2026 16:52

Uhdf · 06/05/2026 16:21

Not all countries are in it. At some point we have to prioritise UK citizens. They deserve to be safe.

They also want healthcare and care in old age - how’s that balance then?

They are as safe as they ever were, or can be with restricted services including the police/courts.

I have suggested trying better integration on a separate post too.