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AIBU to be deeply concerned about the sheer number of unchecked undocumented unknown men coming into the UK?

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CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 09:40

This is some dystopian lord of the flies hell. Those poor women. Burned on the boat. Wth. Poor man stabbed to death. Why are the people that did this then going to be roaming free in the UK? Why are they allowed to enter the UK in the first place? Why are gangs not being 'smashed'?

Why won't the government tell us the truth about their crime rates?

AIBU to be deeply concerned about the sheer number of unchecked undocumented unknown men coming into the UK.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2243693/english-channel-small-boat-migrant-dies

Channel chaos as migrant dies, two women burned and one stabbed on same boat

Forty-five of those on board continued towards the UK and were picked up by a British rescue vessel.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2243693/english-channel-small-boat-migrant-dies

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SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 21:08

@Sav34 goodness thats Very true !

Imagine ! The Blair tsunami was bad enough .

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:10

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 20:59

It would have been a net outflow.

I'd rather see them detained, deported and worst case sent straight back to their home nation

No it wouldn’t. We agreed to take the same number back. It was only in the hundreds.

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 21:11

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 20:51

And rightly so!

They deserve a lot more. From everyone who is supposed to have their best interests at heart.

I’m not really sure why grooming gangs are being mentioned tbh.

You started a thread about illegal immigration and to my knowledge none of the perpetrators were illegal immigrants.

The grooming gangs are a completely different issue that need addressing but not on a thread about people coming over in boats.

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:12

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 21:11

I’m not really sure why grooming gangs are being mentioned tbh.

You started a thread about illegal immigration and to my knowledge none of the perpetrators were illegal immigrants.

The grooming gangs are a completely different issue that need addressing but not on a thread about people coming over in boats.

Domestic violence is a completely different subject, but that doesn't stop umpteen posters mentioning it.

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:13

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 21:06

Since the crisis began many EU nations foolishly gave these migrants residency. Now in the decade since many have become EU citizens. Had we not left they would have had free right to move here and we would have had no way to stop them.

That’s not a reply to the point I was making. It wasn’t about whether Brexit would affect immigration, it was about this nonsense that a ‘proper’ Brexit would have been sunshine and rainbows. It’s nonsense.
And if someone has done the work to gain citizenship if an EU country (it’s not easy anywhere) then I have no problem with them following the laws of that country and having free movement.

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 21:13

Smokeywater · 30/08/2026 20:12

Just listened to a talk on YouTube by David Starkey which explains the problem in the U.K. Blair changed the laws to give everyone judicial rights so regardless whether you’re a new immigrant or a lifelong Brit you have the same rights - so you cannot just chuck out illegals (hence lawyers earning a fortune on their behalf) and we can do nothing about it.

Also SEN rights and PIP rights are legal rights so whether it bankrupts the council or the country is irrelevant the law says that people which a tribunal says have these rights the payments etc must be honoured.

Whether net zero gives us the highest electricity costs or not is irrelevant - achieving net zero is enshrined in law so we must achieve it by 2050 ( enacted by T May).

Why HS2 cost billions - protection of nature is enshrined in law now in England so legally Natural England (or whatever they’re called) could demand a £100 million pound bat tunnel for HS2 and that £millions is spent protecting fish from the Sizewell C outflow.

So while this is the case F all can be done , common sense cannot prevail unless the laws are revoked - but with our screaming media and pathetic parliament that is unlikely so immigrants will continue to come and there is nothing anyone can do as they’d be breaking the law

I can’t believe no one has explained this before
My post might not be phrased well but I hope you get the gist

It would be hard to change when so many levers of state seem captured.

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:15

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:06

😆 🤣 I don't know why you're getting so much stick either. It's starting to get a bit suspicious though with how this thread has ruffled a few feathers - bit like last night's deleted thread 🤔

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Yes. No surprises. Some people do not like these issues being discussed. I don't mind. Water off a ducks back and a bit like in the TWAW hoo ha, people who tried to tell us men can be women, were wrong, and those who always confirmed the realities of biological sex, were right. It's the same here isn't it. The mass immigration of unchecked undocumented males from incompatible cultures, is wrong. So it's easy enough to debate with the folk who keep trying to tell us it's not a problem.

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cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:18

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:15

Yes. No surprises. Some people do not like these issues being discussed. I don't mind. Water off a ducks back and a bit like in the TWAW hoo ha, people who tried to tell us men can be women, were wrong, and those who always confirmed the realities of biological sex, were right. It's the same here isn't it. The mass immigration of unchecked undocumented males from incompatible cultures, is wrong. So it's easy enough to debate with the folk who keep trying to tell us it's not a problem.

The number of asylum seekers is decreasing. The amount of other immigration is decreasing. Emigration is also decreasing. You are getting stick because you implied that women had been set alight on a boat when that wasn’t true. You’ve yet to show evidence of the Stabbings too - it wasn’t in the original report. You aren’t discussing issues you are trying to stir up bad feelings

TemperanceWest · 30/08/2026 21:19

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:12

Domestic violence is a completely different subject, but that doesn't stop umpteen posters mentioning it.

Not really. Many of the men shouting at asylum seeker hotels etc. have been found to have DV convictions. So there is a clear link.

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:20

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:18

The number of asylum seekers is decreasing. The amount of other immigration is decreasing. Emigration is also decreasing. You are getting stick because you implied that women had been set alight on a boat when that wasn’t true. You’ve yet to show evidence of the Stabbings too - it wasn’t in the original report. You aren’t discussing issues you are trying to stir up bad feelings

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Women and young people are dying on that crossing. You’d have to be looking at very limited sanitised Labour led press to not know that.

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:22

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ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 21:22

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:12

Domestic violence is a completely different subject, but that doesn't stop umpteen posters mentioning it.

Surely if we’re discussing the dangers on men, then domestic violence is very much relevant.

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:23

TemperanceWest · 30/08/2026 21:19

Not really. Many of the men shouting at asylum seeker hotels etc. have been found to have DV convictions. So there is a clear link.

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They aren't being smuggled into the country are they? Zero relevance, except for whataboutery purposes.

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:24

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:20

Women and young people are dying on that crossing. You’d have to be looking at very limited sanitised Labour led press to not know that.

Yes, I know that. And I challenge you to find anything from Labour which doesn’t recognise that’s the case either. It’s why NOBODY is in favour of the boat crossings. Not Labour, not ‘lefties’ not anyone. Those on the left also want to stop the boats, but not by declaring every asylum seeking man a violent rapist and suggesting we don’t take any because we aren’t the first safe country. Safe routes, proper vetting, international agreements about who takes how many. That’s the only way. And it needs doing soon before climate change massively 8ncrease the displaced people in the world.

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:25

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I didn’t say you had. I said you implied it. Which you did. ‘Those poor women, burned on a boat’. There’s no plausible deniability there.
Edit: calling me a liar is a personal attack. You might want to rethink that.

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:25

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:24

Yes, I know that. And I challenge you to find anything from Labour which doesn’t recognise that’s the case either. It’s why NOBODY is in favour of the boat crossings. Not Labour, not ‘lefties’ not anyone. Those on the left also want to stop the boats, but not by declaring every asylum seeking man a violent rapist and suggesting we don’t take any because we aren’t the first safe country. Safe routes, proper vetting, international agreements about who takes how many. That’s the only way. And it needs doing soon before climate change massively 8ncrease the displaced people in the world.

Labour’s policies are making it more dangerous. More people per dinghy, crammed on and traveling from sites that are further away.

Capped, vetted routes will only happen if the current international law doesn’t apply.

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:26

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:25

Labour’s policies are making it more dangerous. More people per dinghy, crammed on and traveling from sites that are further away.

Capped, vetted routes will only happen if the current international law doesn’t apply.

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If only they'd take away the carrots.

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ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 21:27

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CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:27

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:25

I didn’t say you had. I said you implied it. Which you did. ‘Those poor women, burned on a boat’. There’s no plausible deniability there.
Edit: calling me a liar is a personal attack. You might want to rethink that.

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Then please don't lie about me. Also a personal attack.

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cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:28

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:25

Labour’s policies are making it more dangerous. More people per dinghy, crammed on and traveling from sites that are further away.

Capped, vetted routes will only happen if the current international law doesn’t apply.

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Fewer people are coming not just fewer boats, so fewer people are in danger. If the same number were coming from the same places you wouldn’t like that either.

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:28

I suppose people are trying to get this thread deleted now..

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EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 21:28

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:25

I didn’t say you had. I said you implied it. Which you did. ‘Those poor women, burned on a boat’. There’s no plausible deniability there.
Edit: calling me a liar is a personal attack. You might want to rethink that.

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No she didn’t. Not more than the headline states.

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 21:28

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 21:04

But this is the big issue - the countries don’t take them back or we have no idea where they came from.

So what do we do with them?

They are going to come regardless.

We’ve had people travelling to other countries by boat since time began, it’s literally how the world was discovered (Columbus, Darwin, pirates etc).

Our main issue is what happens when they get here.

There are ways to deal with this. The USA deals with it very well. Till the time we sort out the deportations detain them and don't let them into the community.

LuckyHazelFox · 30/08/2026 21:28

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:26

If only they'd take away the carrots.

Doctors and engineers take the carrots, but they come to the country the legal way. We don't mind those sort of carrots.

cardibach · 30/08/2026 21:29

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 21:27

Then please don't lie about me. Also a personal attack.

I didn’t lie about you. I said you implied they’d been set alight. Which you did. Several posters responded thinking that. Your phrasing was either intended to create that impression or was very, very clumsy. Either way your words implied that.