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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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Catza · 30/08/2026 13:01

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 12:49

I don't think we are their main source of information .
Putin gets info out as well and they can Google and see

Google and see what though? That they get a free car and a five bedroom house? This scenario only exists in the imagination of Gary from Wetherspoons which he is happy to plaster all over Facebook.
Even people in the UK can't use google to find accurate information.

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 13:01

MaturingCheeseball · 30/08/2026 12:47

You betcha there’s a campaign - because the alternative is admitting untold numbers of men. And being told including on MN to look away, you’re racist, you have to accept it, it’s our punishment for past misdemeanours (including French colonies etc) or that there is no evidence of threat or if there is then it’s a small price to pay. NO THANK YOU.

What’s the solution ??

We live on a tiny Island, absolutely no one is saying we should freely take in billions of people, because our economy cannot sustain it.

We know that men are more likely to do these journeys because they’re too dangerous for women and children.

We know that their plan is to send money home, until they get secured and then have their families come and join them in a safe way.

We know that we cannot take them back to a country if we don’t know where they came from.

We know that Brexit caused increased immigration and decreased emigration so the numbers are being unbalanced.

We know that if they do come to this country, we are going to ensure they’re housed and fed because people who are homeless and starving are dangerous regardless of sex, age or nationality.
We’re also not inhumane.

So apart from shooting them dead before they get off the boat - what is the solution?

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 13:02

thepariscrimefiles · 30/08/2026 12:54

Rupert Lowe would remove all UK gun laws as he is a fascist. He referred to the death of 16 five year old children and their teacher as 'one murder' in an interview with Joe Rogan.

Reform councillors are laughably incompetent and useless. I doubt they'd be any better in government.

People don't realise that once you vote in a fascist it's too late - your country will be destroyed and led by the worst people imaginable. Imagine the town low life being in charge of your local council. That's how it will end up. Lowe and his outfit will lead this country into the gutter. They won't solve any problems either, once the immigrants are 'dealt with' they'll move on to the disabled, the LGBT community, children with SEN etc. It'll be an endless list of scapegoats and eventually you'll probably find yourself or someone you love and care for on it. The very wealthy will get richer and everyone else will suffer.

WellThatIsABitMad · 30/08/2026 13:04

moppety · 30/08/2026 10:01

This is exactly the narrative that has pushed so many Labour voters away (and Keir recognised it too late). You can’t have any kind of discussion around immigration, no matter how nuanced, without it being branded racism. It’s a way to shut down a conversation. Reminds me of the whole TERF and transphobia thing too. You can’t have a nuanced discussion about that either.

Of course we should be talking about young men from countries with appalling cultural attitudes to women’s and safety in particular coming over to the UK (or anywhere) and being free to move around our communities. It’s foolish not to recognise that there will be issues integrating single young men from places where violence (especially sexual violence) against women is commonplace and culturally acceptable in a way it isn’t here, no matter how much people like to claim that being a woman in Britain is just as bad as being a woman in Afghanistan or Eritrea or Somalia.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t accept them, of course we have a duty to accept asylum seekers, but we can’t shut our eyes and put our fingers in our ears about some of the more valid concerns.

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100% agree. Why can’t we have nuanced discussions, the issue is complex, it’s not racist to have concerns about immigration.

Friendlygingercat · 30/08/2026 13:05

Its not just the latest batches though is it? Beginning with Windrush wave upon wave of large ethnic groups have been allowed into this country and given equal citizenship without any public consultation in the form of a referendum. I don't remember being asked if I wanted to vote for so called "multi ethnic society". I know what my vote would have been.

moonraker0 · 30/08/2026 13:08

ElizaMulvil · 30/08/2026 11:25

People who arrive here 'undocumented' are coming from failed states ie often no birth certificates, no passports eg
Somalia - civil war no central Government control
South Sudan - ongoing internal conflic
Yemen - severe humanitarian crises, prolonged conflict
Syria - years of civil war, destroyed public systems
Democratic Republic of the Congo - internal violence, lack of basic governmental delivery
Afghanistan - years of fighting, civil war, appalling civil rights
etc, etc.
People from such states are desperate. They often have family members who've been killed, are starving, have nowhere to live, fear for their children etc.
What would you do in such situations?

You would try to escape surely but you have elderly parents maybe, or young children. So you send on ahead members of the family who are most likely to survive the perils of a long uncertain journey, risks of starvation, long treks through hostile counties, to seek for help and establish a safe home.

They are leaving because they can't stay and /or are totally at odds with the political regimes they come from. Not because they are fully in support of them!
BTW the offending rates of asylum seekers are similar but a little below those of the rest of the UK.

Asylum seekers are people of resource, want to work. need to work. We should be allowing them to do so not keeping them in poverty for years on end. There are lots of jobs where there are shortages eg Government Skilled Workers shortage list. Other countries allow them to work.
Australia, Canada, Sweden, Portugal - right to work almost immediately.
Germany ditto after 3 months
Belgium ditto 4 months
USA, Netherlands ditto 6 months.

How do you know what the data is about crime rates when they won’t release it or am I missing something?

KatiePricesKnickers · 30/08/2026 13:09

Friendlygingercat · 30/08/2026 13:05

Its not just the latest batches though is it? Beginning with Windrush wave upon wave of large ethnic groups have been allowed into this country and given equal citizenship without any public consultation in the form of a referendum. I don't remember being asked if I wanted to vote for so called "multi ethnic society". I know what my vote would have been.

You’ll be getting called thick, uneducated and racist for this post.

MaturingCheeseball · 30/08/2026 13:09

A long-term solution is making the relevant laws and getting the knowledge out there that they cannot access benefits, state-provided housing and cannot bring family members .

Short-term they should absolutely not be able to wander freely when we do not know their background. That is madness and dereliction of duty to public safety.

Further any off-shore processing must be investigated. Falkland Islands maybe?

But mainly axe the incentives.

Catza · 30/08/2026 13:10

Friendlygingercat · 30/08/2026 13:05

Its not just the latest batches though is it? Beginning with Windrush wave upon wave of large ethnic groups have been allowed into this country and given equal citizenship without any public consultation in the form of a referendum. I don't remember being asked if I wanted to vote for so called "multi ethnic society". I know what my vote would have been.

I assure you people from India and Carribean were also not asked if they wanted British people to colonise their country.

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 13:11

Friendlygingercat · 30/08/2026 13:05

Its not just the latest batches though is it? Beginning with Windrush wave upon wave of large ethnic groups have been allowed into this country and given equal citizenship without any public consultation in the form of a referendum. I don't remember being asked if I wanted to vote for so called "multi ethnic society". I know what my vote would have been.

Probably should have a word with the dead, who declared all these people British subjects and gave them the right to citizenship. Britain is only the wealthy successful country it is now because of its Empire. Without the Empire, it would be a backwater country with very little wealth - it's not a country filled with resources. It's wealth was built through Empire.

Views like yours are dangerous. Why shouldn't people born here have equal rights just because they have more melanin than you? You aren't superior because you have white skin.

putupwhatever · 30/08/2026 13:25

FrysChocolateCreams · 30/08/2026 11:26

Another anti immigration thread dressed up as faux concern for women. Like you really care.

I am concerned for women and girls. I live in a tiny village of 700 people which will now have a 1500 asylum camp for single men in the middle of it. The village is isolated and you can't get to anywhere else from it. I have 4 daughters. My teenagers will probably have to stop biking, meeting their friends in the park and have the new found teenage independence taken away from them. I don't think it is racist to have concerns about the scale of this and how it will totally skew the demographic of a community. Women and girls will be outnumbered 6 to 1. Living rurally most of our hobbies involve walking the dog along the filed and lanes. But it is very isolated. I have seen the news and stats that asylum seekers from the countries that will be in this camp are over-represented in crime statistics, particularly sex crimes. I'm not without sympathy for the state of the countries these people are coming from like Yemen, Afghanistan etc. I think it must be truly awful there. But like someone above says two things can be true at the same time. Huge numbers of single men with nothing to do from very different cultures are not going to have no impact on the communities they are put in. The world is changing hugely and for all sorts of reasons more people are going to be coming. We need to really consider the implications of it

putupwhatever · 30/08/2026 13:28

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 13:02

People don't realise that once you vote in a fascist it's too late - your country will be destroyed and led by the worst people imaginable. Imagine the town low life being in charge of your local council. That's how it will end up. Lowe and his outfit will lead this country into the gutter. They won't solve any problems either, once the immigrants are 'dealt with' they'll move on to the disabled, the LGBT community, children with SEN etc. It'll be an endless list of scapegoats and eventually you'll probably find yourself or someone you love and care for on it. The very wealthy will get richer and everyone else will suffer.

It also worries me that the only people who will talk about it are Reform. I think the reluctance of parties to talk about the issues will push people onto reform even if they don't agree with them, as they are the only party talking about it.

putupwhatever · 30/08/2026 13:32

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 12:05

Kindly OP, the Guardian is not the left wing version of the Daily Mail. The left wing of the DM would be The Mirror. The Daily Mail and The Mirror are tabloids, and are accessible to those with a reading age 8 years plus. The Guardian is a broadsheet, and broadsheet generally requires a reading age of 12/13 years plus. This might sound snooty, but it's a fact that outlets such as the Daily Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express are aimed at those with lower educational levels. The quality of their journalism is generally much poorer and they have often been found to be on the wrong side of history. The Daily Mail was all for Hitler in the 30s! The Sun and it's smearing of Hillsborough etc.

Most of the tabloids are about preserving the interests of the very wealthy, as are some of the broadsheets. What's in the interest of the very wealthy at the moment is preserving their wealth, we live in the most unequal time in recorded history, and the easiest way to so this is to sow division. Divide and conquer and sadly a lot of people are lapping it up. And as before, I want the small boats to stop and agree that immigration has been to high, especially since Brexit.

Talk about patronising!

The Guardian is also concerned with shoring up it's own version of power, through cultural capital and soft power. That those who are educated 'know best' and we should submit to their wisdom. The rest of us are uneducated oiks. Your post drips with this BTW

FirmSnake · 30/08/2026 13:33

putupwhatever · 30/08/2026 13:28

It also worries me that the only people who will talk about it are Reform. I think the reluctance of parties to talk about the issues will push people onto reform even if they don't agree with them, as they are the only party talking about it.

Why do you say Reform are the only ones talking about it? That isn't remotely true.
Reform loudly promise things that they can't deliver, but that doesn't mean they are the only ones talking about it.

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 13:36

smallglassbottle · 30/08/2026 11:07

And yet the attacks continue.

Not forgetting the government issued a leaflet to these men saying it's not normal or acceptable to rape women...

Puzzledandpissedoff · 30/08/2026 13:37

Fortunately the days of the left shutting down any unease and concern about the huge numbers of people, particularly men, who have no desire to integrate and whose cultures are incompatible with Western values are over

It is indeed fortunate that those days are over, @LoveItaly, but a lot of people had a lot of fun telling anyone who raised these issues - no matter how rationally - how racist they were and you can't expect them to appreciate others waking up

And we can't "make" France do anything, @Parker231, though we could certainly stop paying them millions to take measures they've no intention of adopting.
As ever the French will prioritise what suits them - something we could perhaps learn from - but I'm not sure what's to stop us intercepting boats, towing them back to the French coast and leaving them there. I don't imagine they'd be pleased, but with enough effort the issue could well solve itself once it was absorbed that they're really not going to reach the UK like this

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 13:39

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 13:36

Not forgetting the government issued a leaflet to these men saying it's not normal or acceptable to rape women...

MNers will say "but we have domestic rapists too"

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 13:40

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 11:44

Wonder why.

Don't they have a shortage of doctors, lawyers and engineers?

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CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 13:43

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 13:36

Not forgetting the government issued a leaflet to these men saying it's not normal or acceptable to rape women...

And they have promised to not house asylum seekers next door to schools and nurseries.. Therefore fully accepting and admitting there is a problem. Just like wot we voters say there is.

(Granted none of us (save 70 people near Manchester) actually voted for our current PM, as we weren't given the option of doing so)

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SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 13:47

@Catza I don't understand what you mean ?
The migrants have phones ,the internet and they have real human contacts and networks .

They don't need mumsent or anything like us to tell them what they can get here.

Which is housing, money ,food ,doctors a bus to the local town and somerimes games thrown in .

Or they just meet their contacts already here and dissapear into the black ecconomy.

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 13:48

Sav34 · 30/08/2026 13:39

MNers will say "but we have domestic rapists too"

Yes I'm waiting for someone to say that, of course we have male rapists in the UK but it not deemed normal or acceptable in modern society, we have enough of our own without importing any more..in some cultures women are just viewed as male property to be used and raped at their pleasure, marrying off females at 9 years old is seen as normal, we don't want those values in the UK..

SoThatwasSummer · 30/08/2026 13:49

putupwhatever · 30/08/2026 13:25

I am concerned for women and girls. I live in a tiny village of 700 people which will now have a 1500 asylum camp for single men in the middle of it. The village is isolated and you can't get to anywhere else from it. I have 4 daughters. My teenagers will probably have to stop biking, meeting their friends in the park and have the new found teenage independence taken away from them. I don't think it is racist to have concerns about the scale of this and how it will totally skew the demographic of a community. Women and girls will be outnumbered 6 to 1. Living rurally most of our hobbies involve walking the dog along the filed and lanes. But it is very isolated. I have seen the news and stats that asylum seekers from the countries that will be in this camp are over-represented in crime statistics, particularly sex crimes. I'm not without sympathy for the state of the countries these people are coming from like Yemen, Afghanistan etc. I think it must be truly awful there. But like someone above says two things can be true at the same time. Huge numbers of single men with nothing to do from very different cultures are not going to have no impact on the communities they are put in. The world is changing hugely and for all sorts of reasons more people are going to be coming. We need to really consider the implications of it

And yet imagine if that was 1500 women and children instead!

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 13:51

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 12:05

Kindly OP, the Guardian is not the left wing version of the Daily Mail. The left wing of the DM would be The Mirror. The Daily Mail and The Mirror are tabloids, and are accessible to those with a reading age 8 years plus. The Guardian is a broadsheet, and broadsheet generally requires a reading age of 12/13 years plus. This might sound snooty, but it's a fact that outlets such as the Daily Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express are aimed at those with lower educational levels. The quality of their journalism is generally much poorer and they have often been found to be on the wrong side of history. The Daily Mail was all for Hitler in the 30s! The Sun and it's smearing of Hillsborough etc.

Most of the tabloids are about preserving the interests of the very wealthy, as are some of the broadsheets. What's in the interest of the very wealthy at the moment is preserving their wealth, we live in the most unequal time in recorded history, and the easiest way to so this is to sow division. Divide and conquer and sadly a lot of people are lapping it up. And as before, I want the small boats to stop and agree that immigration has been to high, especially since Brexit.

😂😆 Aw you're so cute. Kindly 😆

Hate to update your antiquated the mirror is the left wing version of the daily mail crap, but wake up. It's embarrassing for you. Honestly. Things have changed A LOT since eg. the Hillsborough days. In those days for example, Labour really was the party of the working people.

Listen - I'm self confident enough to be able to post an article by the mail, the express, the sun, the times, the guardian, al jazeera, sky news, the spectator and many more. You see I don't just judge an article by the organisation which presented it. Unlike you, check yourself and your questionable assumptions. It'll benefit you. And others.

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EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 13:52

Parker231 · 30/08/2026 11:59

You’d have no independent review of proposed legislation? The Supreme Court was deciding whether the government’s proposed scheme complied with existing UK law and the UK’s legal obligations. It didn’t.

It was overruled by legislation.

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 13:54

Yanbu op I don’t think many will be ok with this.