Reform voters should realise

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combinationpadlock · 06/07/2024 07:34

Any one of us could be a refugee by this time next year.

In 6 months, or 5 years, or 40 years or 150 years the UK population could be refugees in someone else's country.

Treat others as you want to be treated

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EasternStandard · 07/07/2024 11:45

poetryandwine · 06/07/2024 23:08

Regarding an earlier post: You cannot send someone who was not granted asylum to a country where they do not hold a passport if it has not agreed to receive them.

Regarding the Dublin Agreement; It is more complex than this, there is also a principle of shared responsibility and there is consideration for individual circumstances.

But Italy and others do bear a disproportionate load and Dublin is currently being renegotiated. So all member states will share the EU asylum load more equitably going forward

The facts remain that many asylum seekers know rudimentary English and many have more knowledge of British culture than any other European culture. This makes the UK an attractive destination.

The EU has no reason to ensure that the UK bears only a proportional asylum burden (although I believe that amongst the wealthy nations, at present we do). In that sense, people drawn to UKIP/Reform/Brexit as a way of controlling immigration seem to have done the opposite. Net migration is at an all time high. We can’t be sure about asylum seekers because processing claims has nearly ground to a halt

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The Dublin agreement was only used in specific cases, has a very low rate, many requests were rejected and the inflow was higher than the outflow by the time Brexit happened - there was a lag after 2016 so still going in 2018

the Dublin Regulation inflow to the UK in the year 2018 was nearly six times the outflow. As the Home Office noted in February 2019: "There were 1,215 transfers into the UK under the Dublin Regulation. The majority (946) of these transfers came from Greece. There were just 209 transfers out of the UK under the Dublin Regulation. A quarter of these (51) were transfers to France."

I’m aware the EU are changing the policy and we could have been part of that.

imo this is more relevant than the Dublin agreement which was always a low factor.

Idk what the plans are with the EU but changing where we are was something that would have interested me if a GE pledge

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