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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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EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 14:40

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:38

But the Conservatives created this - by instigating Brexit, meaning that the UK is no longer signed up to the Dublin Agreement.

This misinformation doesn’t go away. Look at issues in Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain and so on.

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:45

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 14:40

This misinformation doesn’t go away. Look at issues in Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain and so on.

How is it misinformation? Italy, Greece, Spain are sea-bordered countries, so will likely be a first safe stop for migrants.

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 14:46

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:38

But the Conservatives created this - by instigating Brexit, meaning that the UK is no longer signed up to the Dublin Agreement.

It was actually the Labour Blair government that started the open borders

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 14:48

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:45

How is it misinformation? Italy, Greece, Spain are sea-bordered countries, so will likely be a first safe stop for migrants.

The Dublin Agreement hasn’t resolved this anywhere. The numbers returned are tiny due to criteria and acceptance rules, we took more than returned.

If it did as you suggest Germany and France would send people en masse back to Spain, Greece and Italy. They can’t.

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:52

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:38

But the Conservatives created this - by instigating Brexit, meaning that the UK is no longer signed up to the Dublin Agreement.

Did the Conservatives create the mass immigration of undocumented men in many of the other European countries too?

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CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:54

hourglass2 · 30/08/2026 14:46

It was actually the Labour Blair government that started the open borders

In the UK yes. Everything was a lot nicer before Blair opened the borders and took us to war with Iraq. I voted for him too (first vote) . We thought he'd be an improvement. Funnily enough a Lot of the Poles etc who came over then, to make their fortunes, have left now. Citing the fact that the UK has changed for the worse.

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DontSayItsOver · 30/08/2026 14:55

Wait what? Stabbed on the boat? I guess when you’ve gotta go you’ve gotta go.

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 14:55

Keymoment · 30/08/2026 14:45

How is it misinformation? Italy, Greece, Spain are sea-bordered countries, so will likely be a first safe stop for migrants.

Why ?
What has having a coast got to do with whether it's safe or not ?

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:57

DontSayItsOver · 30/08/2026 14:55

Wait what? Stabbed on the boat? I guess when you’ve gotta go you’ve gotta go.

But wait - many people are saying it's not twue gov. So we must wait and see. Though they seem to be more bothered about suggesting the women got sun burnt, and then also forget about the stabbed men (one to death). Comme ci comme ca.

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Timeforachange26 · 30/08/2026 14:57

Firetreev · 30/08/2026 10:06

One hundred percent this! If you voted for Brexit you caused this, and the man who sold you Brexit is one of the main culprits despite claiming he'll be the one to fix the problems. It's almost as though he wanted it to happen. And he can't claim he would have done Brexit differently, because he stood down all his Brexit Party candidates in Tory constituencies to allow the Tories to win which suggests he tacitly approved of Boris' plan.

We were warned that leaving the EU would lead to us leaving the Dublin agreement, which allowed us to return anyone who arrived on a small boat immediately.

I'm genuinely sick to the back teeth of the clowns who've voted for all this shit being the biggest whingers about it. They have zero ability to self reflect and see that by voting Tory, voting for Brexit, voting for Boris that they led us to exactly where we are. And now they'll vote Reform or Restore to fuck the country up even more!

And no, I do not support small boats or endless immigration. It needs to stop.

People just came in lorries before Brexit

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:58

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 14:48

The Dublin Agreement hasn’t resolved this anywhere. The numbers returned are tiny due to criteria and acceptance rules, we took more than returned.

If it did as you suggest Germany and France would send people en masse back to Spain, Greece and Italy. They can’t.

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Best to stop clouding the issue with facts, I've found.

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ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 15:01

FirstNationsEnglish · 30/08/2026 14:25

It does not matter that 'numbers arriving are reducing' - reduced numbers arriving are still increasing the amount of people being here and being a drain on our very finite resources. I wonder what are the ulterior motives for continuing to import so many young men who do not align with British ways? Beware the enemy within.

We’re not importing them though are we?

Yes every now and then (like the windrush generation), people from other countries are asked to come and live here because we need their help.

But from the views on this thread, it is the undocumented immigrants coming over that is the major issue and not immigrants as a whole (for the majority who aren’t racist).

The issue is that people are very vocal about not wanting them here but have no alternative solution apart from to continue to scaremonger or state false information as fact - which literally helps no one.

Then when you tell them their ideas of sending them back home, giving them tents to live in or putting them in another random country aren’t suitable solutions then you are accused of not caring about women and girls (even though we are women too), being part of some conspiracy or some insult regarding being a leftest.

Vanillaicelatte · 30/08/2026 15:03

InWithPeaceOutWithStress · 30/08/2026 10:34

When you say “why are they allowed to enter the UK in the first place” can you describe your solution? Should they be shot on sight in the sea, so they’re not allowed to come on shore? A giant sea wall built to prevent boats coming ashore?

When they come ashore they’re immediately documented and processed so your title doesn’t make sense.

They’re given somewhere to stay and a minimal stipend, but Reform appear to want to deny them this which would ironically leave them roaming the uk, with no funds, meaning they’d be sleeping on the streets and have to steal food to stay alive.

Numbers have massively dropped over the last year so the current government policy appears to be working, but I’d love to hear your ideas to improve on this.

Maybe they wouldn’t come if they weren’t able to get a roof over their head and free meals

The uk is to soft
and for those that want to rejoin the EU
not a chance of that ever happening until we get immigration both legal and asylum seekers sorted out

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 15:05

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:57

But wait - many people are saying it's not twue gov. So we must wait and see. Though they seem to be more bothered about suggesting the women got sun burnt, and then also forget about the stabbed men (one to death). Comme ci comme ca.

Not much more info in the press. Certainly nothing from the "leftie" papers.

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

Catza · 30/08/2026 15:05

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 14:40

This misinformation doesn’t go away. Look at issues in Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain and so on.

Under the Dublin agreement there was an option to return asylum seekers to the country where they were first processed or where they first applied to asylum. If a person did not go through the processing on their way to Germany, Italy or Spain, there was nowhere to return them to. So Dublin agreement is not a myth per se.
According to the government figures, nearly 300k people were returned under the Dublin agreement between 2010 and 2015. Forced returns still happen but now after the application is processed and refused and at a significantly lower numbers compared to pre-Brexit. Fewer than 10k a year as opposed to 60k a year up to 2015. Additional 20k are refused entry, however over 50% of those are EU nationals without a valid visa so not relevant for the purposes of this debate.

dustabsorber · 30/08/2026 15:05

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

Boycott their cheese and wine.

Vanillaicelatte · 30/08/2026 15:06

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:52

Did the Conservatives create the mass immigration of undocumented men in many of the other European countries too?

Exactly Spain has given 500k illegal people temporary 2 year permit to work

I have no idea if this permit will eventually legalize them

but to give that to people who have entered illegally or overstayed visa is stupid and will just encourage more to to do the same

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 15:07

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 14:57

But wait - many people are saying it's not twue gov. So we must wait and see. Though they seem to be more bothered about suggesting the women got sun burnt, and then also forget about the stabbed men (one to death). Comme ci comme ca.

Those poor women. Burned on the boat.

This is literally what YOU wrote in YOUR OP, with a link to the article.

You even wrote it before mentioning the man being stabbed to death.

So I don’t get your issue around posters caring about the women being sunburnt when you were literally the first poster to even mention it???

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 15:07

dustabsorber · 30/08/2026 15:05

Boycott their cheese and wine.

That's not as daft as it sounds.

Maybe gently apply some trade tariffs.....

JenniferBooth · 30/08/2026 15:08

Vanillaicelatte · 30/08/2026 15:03

Maybe they wouldn’t come if they weren’t able to get a roof over their head and free meals

The uk is to soft
and for those that want to rejoin the EU
not a chance of that ever happening until we get immigration both legal and asylum seekers sorted out

Most MNers seem to resent social housing tenants a lot more and say that what we are getting is "free"

The definition of this word seems to have changed

thepariscrimefiles · 30/08/2026 15:11

Tiredtaxpayer · 30/08/2026 14:22

I have.
It says they were given British Citizenship and the right to live and work in UK. I see nothing about 'hostility, racism and violence'.
Many of them had jobs on the London underground or in nursing (if suitably qualified)

In April 1968, hundreds of London dockers and Smithfield meat market porters went on strike and marched on the House of Commons in support of Conservative MP Enoch Powell following his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.

I would call that hostility and racism.

Many landlords refused to rent houses or rooms to black people.

EasternStandard · 30/08/2026 15:11

Catza · 30/08/2026 15:05

Under the Dublin agreement there was an option to return asylum seekers to the country where they were first processed or where they first applied to asylum. If a person did not go through the processing on their way to Germany, Italy or Spain, there was nowhere to return them to. So Dublin agreement is not a myth per se.
According to the government figures, nearly 300k people were returned under the Dublin agreement between 2010 and 2015. Forced returns still happen but now after the application is processed and refused and at a significantly lower numbers compared to pre-Brexit. Fewer than 10k a year as opposed to 60k a year up to 2015. Additional 20k are refused entry, however over 50% of those are EU nationals without a valid visa so not relevant for the purposes of this debate.

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Yes it’s very low and the receiving country could say no. I hadn’t resolved any migration issues in the EU.

There is a new pact but that has new issues.

smallglassbottle · 30/08/2026 15:13

I see the leftist authoritarians are out and about, wanting to restrict algorithms for adults 😂 only extreme leftist views can be tolerated eh? Uncle Stalin would be so proud of you all 😘

Meanwhile in the real world......

(I hope the back shift are being remunerated well)

Such a lot of effort to keep the propaganda going. Strange that 🤔

Ifiwere · 30/08/2026 15:15

Smokeywater · 30/08/2026 09:48

Weak governments from Blair onwards

to add - will make me vote Restore or Reform regardless of the idiots running these parties - it's a last hope of someone doing something

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Then you’re a bigger idiot than them

CoventryCity · 30/08/2026 15:15

ThatBreezyScroller · 30/08/2026 15:07

Those poor women. Burned on the boat.

This is literally what YOU wrote in YOUR OP, with a link to the article.

You even wrote it before mentioning the man being stabbed to death.

So I don’t get your issue around posters caring about the women being sunburnt when you were literally the first poster to even mention it???

What? I think you're confused.

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