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AIBU to think the PM is ignoring the asylum issue?

477 replies

BusyDog · 16/08/2026 06:33

I’m firmly working class, and I don’t believe that what we need is to spread the asylum seekers around more. The reason I’m annoyed is not because I don’t want them housed by the middle class, but because I think it’s completely ignoring the problem. I think we need secure detention centres whilst the country either approves the application or sends them off home. These will be safe, food provided, clothes, play areas for the children. The accommodation will have the basics like temporary housing does but they can’t leave until application approved or sent home. But they can’t leave and roam UK unless their application is accepted. Anyone who is violent etc and makes it not safe will automatically be sent home.
I liked this prime minister as I thought he had both feet on the ground, but it seems not….!
If he admits it’s not fair only working class has to deal with it, then surely, he admits it’s a problem and he’s not actually addressing it?

YANBU = PM ignoring actual issue
YABU = Issue is that only working class have to deal with them

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LuckyHazelFox · 16/08/2026 15:59

Wingedharpy · 16/08/2026 15:28

Really?
Or perhaps just torpedo the dinghy and save on transport costs if you prefer not to view them as human beings?

Rhiannon Whyte was a human being as well - and the mother of a young child.

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 16:00

Wingedharpy · 16/08/2026 15:28

Really?
Or perhaps just torpedo the dinghy and save on transport costs if you prefer not to view them as human beings?

Ah, the guilt tripping time? Sorry, you're going to be disappointed. People only really, really care about their own interests. And their children of course. Twas ever thus.

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 16:04

LuckyHazelFox · 16/08/2026 15:59

Rhiannon Whyte was a human being as well - and the mother of a young child.

'All animals are equal' eh? Apart from when they're not. We're supposed to feel guilty for even existing. Handy for the tax revenue though. I feel like I'm being mugged, laughed at, then menaced for objecting.

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 16:05

There's no love like leftie love.....

Please save us from it 🙏 please....

LuckyHazelFox · 16/08/2026 16:09

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 16:04

'All animals are equal' eh? Apart from when they're not. We're supposed to feel guilty for even existing. Handy for the tax revenue though. I feel like I'm being mugged, laughed at, then menaced for objecting.

Spot on my friend x

LuckyHazelFox · 16/08/2026 16:29

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 16:05

There's no love like leftie love.....

Please save us from it 🙏 please....

😆 🤣

RedTagAlan · 16/08/2026 16:39

Litehartstuth · 16/08/2026 12:55

Its probably to complicated for me. But what i do understand. Is that we can't even house family's already in the uk. There are way to many families and children in temporary accommodation. Often damp mouldy and full of vermin.

Probably been asked, but where did you get that newspaper clip ?

A link would be much better.

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 16/08/2026 16:50

@Wingedharpythey shouldn't have to be our problem. I would have no problem knifing the boats when they're in very shallow French water. Tow them back.

Lilypad34 · 16/08/2026 17:34

Cleo65 · 16/08/2026 11:20

He could stop the boat illegals if he wanted to. He/government past & present don't want to - the bigger question is why don't they want to?

Edited

This is the question no one seems to be asking. Why, why don’t they want to.

NancyThompson · 16/08/2026 17:43

It's the drip drip drip of news of the most awful sexual assaults - stranger gang rapes, just horrible stuff that used to be really rare and now isn't.
I've just read about a pensioner, an elderly man, raped outside a church in Harrow by an Eritrean.
I mean come on.

MaturingCheeseball · 16/08/2026 17:44

I agree about the peculiar “kindness” at the expense of one’s own citizens and culture. The Welsh Nationalists are the very worst. There are these - frankly half-witted - people who have somehow been elected sitting in the Welsh Parliament spouting dangerous drivel about promoting “refugee” rights to the detriment of anyone else. When someone asked about the priority being given to foreign households with housing, the Housing Minister said, “I object to the question.” 😡

suburburban · 16/08/2026 17:55

MaturingCheeseball · 16/08/2026 17:44

I agree about the peculiar “kindness” at the expense of one’s own citizens and culture. The Welsh Nationalists are the very worst. There are these - frankly half-witted - people who have somehow been elected sitting in the Welsh Parliament spouting dangerous drivel about promoting “refugee” rights to the detriment of anyone else. When someone asked about the priority being given to foreign households with housing, the Housing Minister said, “I object to the question.” 😡

Yes it really shouldn’t be happening like this, whereas would it occur?

smallglassbottle · 16/08/2026 17:56

MaturingCheeseball · 16/08/2026 17:44

I agree about the peculiar “kindness” at the expense of one’s own citizens and culture. The Welsh Nationalists are the very worst. There are these - frankly half-witted - people who have somehow been elected sitting in the Welsh Parliament spouting dangerous drivel about promoting “refugee” rights to the detriment of anyone else. When someone asked about the priority being given to foreign households with housing, the Housing Minister said, “I object to the question.” 😡

I think they're probably racists who are so uncomfortable with their feelings that they try too hard to override them and it just goes too far the other way. They believe that going overboard with kindness is the only sign of not being racist so people like myself, who believe that all humans are equally a grifting pain in the backside and join the queue buster, are perceived to be racist because I'm not exhibiting over the top kindness.

Now who is more racist?

ComeAndGetBiriyani · 16/08/2026 18:05

NancyThompson · 16/08/2026 17:43

It's the drip drip drip of news of the most awful sexual assaults - stranger gang rapes, just horrible stuff that used to be really rare and now isn't.
I've just read about a pensioner, an elderly man, raped outside a church in Harrow by an Eritrean.
I mean come on.

Stranger rapes terrify me and make me feel sick. The prevalence of these among certain groups (per capita) makes me sad.

YoniWheretheSunDontShine · 16/08/2026 18:07

Apologies if it's been mentioned but there was an interesting article in the mail today ,about how sweden has tried and succeded in turning around it's assluym issues and those of integration .

LuckyHazelFox · 16/08/2026 18:08

ComeAndGetBiriyani · 16/08/2026 18:05

Stranger rapes terrify me and make me feel sick. The prevalence of these among certain groups (per capita) makes me sad.

It really could happen to any one of us in these towns and villages.

NancyThompson · 16/08/2026 18:09

ComeAndGetBiriyani · 16/08/2026 18:05

Stranger rapes terrify me and make me feel sick. The prevalence of these among certain groups (per capita) makes me sad.

Me too. It's been literally my worst nightmare ever since I learned about the concept.
I'm an immigrant myself, I moved here from a country with a very high instance of sexual violence against women, and I loved the feeling of safety. I hate that it's going backwards, and these particularly ugly, brutal crimes are now more prevelant in the UK and Europe.

BrinkWomanship · 16/08/2026 18:15

ScarlettOYara · 16/08/2026 08:06

Was it? I missed that. I listened to his speech outside no10 which was about homelessness and rebuilding the industrial wastelands etc, which I thought was good. Did he mention Gaza? Happy to be corrected if he did.

Just before he became PM.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33045vjey4o?app-referrer=deep-link

A middle aged man with dark, slightly greying hair. He is wearing a dark blue suit jacket, a white shirt and dark , squarish rimmed glasses. His lips are pursed and he has a serious look.

Can PM's Gaza apology win back lost Muslim voters in Bradford?

Burnham says Labour "didn't get it right" over Gaza and must do better under his leadership.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33045vjey4o?app-referrer=deep-link

ComeAndGetBiriyani · 16/08/2026 18:18

NancyThompson · 16/08/2026 18:09

Me too. It's been literally my worst nightmare ever since I learned about the concept.
I'm an immigrant myself, I moved here from a country with a very high instance of sexual violence against women, and I loved the feeling of safety. I hate that it's going backwards, and these particularly ugly, brutal crimes are now more prevelant in the UK and Europe.

Yes very low in Poland and Hungary

Seymour5 · 16/08/2026 18:41

RedTagAlan · 16/08/2026 16:39

Probably been asked, but where did you get that newspaper clip ?

A link would be much better.

Barnardos seem to think poor quality, temporary and unaffordable housing are serious issues. As does Shelter.

www.barnardos.org.uk/blog/we-cannot-reduce-child-poverty-without-tackling-housing-emergency

RedTagAlan · 16/08/2026 18:43

Seymour5 · 16/08/2026 18:41

Barnardos seem to think poor quality, temporary and unaffordable housing are serious issues. As does Shelter.

www.barnardos.org.uk/blog/we-cannot-reduce-child-poverty-without-tackling-housing-emergency

Thanks.

parall · 16/08/2026 18:43

As for why those in power refuse to do anything and sit on their hands, is there any possibility that "follow the money" is relevant at all?

RedTagAlan · 16/08/2026 18:44

parall · 16/08/2026 18:43

As for why those in power refuse to do anything and sit on their hands, is there any possibility that "follow the money" is relevant at all?

You mean the 5 mil Farage got ?

dreamingofgoodhair · 16/08/2026 18:47

@BusyDogI think the small boats situation is untenable. However ‘send them home’. Where to exactly? If they throw their passports away how do we know where to send them back to ?
I don’t know what the answer is.

parall · 16/08/2026 18:48

RedTagAlan · 16/08/2026 18:44

You mean the 5 mil Farage got ?

When did he come to power?!! I must have missed that one.😊

Someone is making a lot of loot out of all the accommodation and ancillary stuff that asylum seekers need like food, clothing, interpreters, you name it. Someone is coining it and the pie gets sliced up I'm sure. You scratch my back....