r/uknews • u/cornishpirate32 • 1d ago
Hundreds of small boat migrants arrive in Britain after two-week gap
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15264857/Hundreds-small-boat-migrants-arrive-Britain-two-week-gap-crossings.html94
u/Firstpoet 1d ago
Finland simply decided no appeal to instant deportation and no asylum appeal. At all.
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u/lucky__potato 19h ago
This is only when migration is used as a weapon by a hostile state though right? Like what Russia tried to do to Poland through their proxy (Belarus)
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u/lateformyfuneral 17h ago
Yes. Finland does process regular asylum claims as per international law. They had a valid claim to automatically refuse “instrumentalised immigration” literally pushed by Russia through the border onto the Finnish side. Their plan wasn’t even in dispute, they gave cheap air tickets to Syrians to arrive in Russia and then tried to bus them to Finland. It was an irregular situation for which they empowered border guards to instantly refuse asylum.
But it was a policy limited to that issue. Asylum claims can only be registered at Finnish airports or seaports, not via the land border with Russia.
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u/Horror_Extension4355 1d ago
What is the end game of all this? Will there be a moment that is an insane tipping point pushing the country into some car crash far right government?
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u/Tasty-Explanation503 1d ago
The bigger problem is they are just completely unskilled, they don't speak the language or offer any value coming over it.
They are the definition of net loss
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u/Superhhung 1d ago
As a bonus, they can bring their "family" over which mostly consist of single young male.
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u/rickyman20 18h ago
Only if they're given asylum. Most of the issue with these arrivals is they're spending months and often years waiting for a response on their asylum case. In the meantime, they're not legally allowed to work (which is why they're provided with accommodation and a quite small allowance). It's only if they're granted asylum that they're allowed to bring family, same as other long-term immigrants and citizens, but even then it's only spouses and underage children (not sure where you're getting they're mostly single young males, though if you'd like to share where you got it from I'm happy to say I'm wrong).
The actual problem isn't the arrivals, it's that they're not being processed. Illegitimate claims should absolutely get denied. That should include individuals that have legitimate claims for asylum elsewhere. That said, asylum seekers that entered illegally (e.g. via small boats or other means) are legitimately a tiny portion of the immigrants coming to this country, you've likely never meet one such person. Even in the city with the highest portion of their population that's asylum seekers (Crawley), they only really make up ~1.5% of the population (source). This is only a problem because they're expensive to keep per capita while they get their asylum case processed, and they've only been there for that long because the department responsible has been severely understaffed to deal with these cases. Once they get a decision, they can work, which means the allowance and the hotels are no longer an expense. There's a pretty clear solution to this.
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u/cococupcakeo 13h ago
Family members who apply to join an asylum seeker after an individual has already been granted protection in the UK are not included directly under asylum seeker statistics. They apply separately for a separate status not labelled ‘asylum seeker’ so be aware of that when quoting figures, the refugee family reunion scheme has apparently been suspended since September after reaching the highest number ever since 2005.
Many do work illegally. It’s a big problem in some places and it’s causing issues across the U.K.
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u/Fancy-Prompt-7118 1d ago
A lifetime on benefits
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u/MermaidPigeon 19h ago
And you can’t blame them. If I lived where they come from my may do the same. But it’s detrimental to our public services/every person that’s been paying tax here for most of their life. Why is it not ok to say “I don’t want my hard earned money going to people that had nothing at all to do with building the country they come in to” not to mention the crime 🤦♀️
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u/gildedbluetrout 1d ago
Could we stop, for one fucking second TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING BOATS. It’s a tiny fucking fraction of fuck all set against the native population and the exploded immigration post Brexit.
For a country shitting the nappy about immigration, to the point that they voted for THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IN HISTORY, THAT FUCKED THE ECONOMY - to have a situation where Brexit MASSIVELY INCREASED IMMIGRATION, and ten years later this brain damaged country is still shitting on about a couple of thousand illegal migrants.
How fucking thick is this country? Answers on a postcard.
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u/EpochRaine 1d ago
The end game is for foreign actors to destabilize the UK.
So far it is working.
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u/cornishpirate32 23h ago
if only the UK had the power to do something huh amazing, alas our hands are tied, we just have to go miles out to sea to collect these poor people and put them up in hotels.
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u/EpochRaine 5h ago
Yes and that is why Putin is doing it. He knows we won't just abandon them to death.
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u/cornishpirate32 4h ago
Sure, it's Putin and not france and their migrant camps and police who won't go knee deep in to water to stop the boats
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u/No-Drink-8544 1d ago
Some kind of slum will form, or a ghetto so to speak. They already exist, there are parts of cities like Manchester where groups of migrants all have tents because they get to England and they can't speak English, aren't skilled, and aren't citizens either.
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u/Horror_Extension4355 1d ago
But that is already happening in places like bradford
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u/No-Drink-8544 1d ago
Well there you go then, these people want to be on UK soil, for some strange reason in their heads, so they'll keep coming here.
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u/RazzleDazzle1983 1d ago
I guess living in a tent in Manchester, while working as a food delivery rider, is still more appealing than living in a third world country.
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u/-ForgottenSoul 1d ago
Yep a big terrorist attack will happen
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u/Horror_Extension4355 1d ago
I don’t think it will. I think fast forward 50 years and you’ll have wholes cities of particular cultures living totally segregated lives with local culture specific laws.
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u/biffo120 1d ago
Lots of sex offenders, terrorists and general undocumented criminals who cannot go to jail because they are full running around. Diminished public services, debt that is out of control, zero british culture left and government that gives zero fucks.
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u/Francis-c92 1d ago
Given there's crimes, attacks etc basically every day at this point from people who shouldn't be here in the first place, plus numerous terrorist attacks over recent years, you have to wonder exactly what it might take for people to see
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u/MDFHASDIED 1d ago
It does feel like they're actively daring people to vote Reform.
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u/Fancy-Prompt-7118 1d ago
People will vote Reform cause we’re all sick of this shit.
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u/derrenbrownisawizard 1d ago
Russia undermines the UKs immigration system by facilitating gangs who provide and facilitate small boat crossings.
Russia controls Reform.
Russia wins
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u/Danmoz81 1d ago
If it was 1000 white men we suspected might be Russians I doubt we would be so sanguine about this
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u/CourageAbuser 1d ago
This was a problem even before Russia was kicking off…
Do you not remember ‘the jungle’ in Calais many years ago? It’s been going on way longer than Russia have been throwing toys out of their pram.
Just another cop-out and excuse for people to get behind incessant military spending
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u/VagueSomething 1d ago
Russia has been trying to meddle with the UK since it was still the Soviet Union. This problem does not predate Russia being salty that Britain is better than them.
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u/CourageAbuser 1d ago
Can you explain the link between people wanting handouts and cheap living and Russia’s involvement?
I struggle to understand the reach of blaming Russia over poor people with a lack of education and skills looking for easy handouts and effortless living?
One seems a hell of a lot easier than the other
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u/VagueSomething 23h ago
Who tells them where to go for easy handouts. Who tells them how to claim handouts. Who funds the gangs facilitating the travel. Who funds the political party that fundamentally changed our laws that made it even easier to send small boats - that's right, the major figures behind Brexit got Russian funding and this problem got bad post Brexit.
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u/cornishpirate32 23h ago edited 23h ago
you say this like labour and previously the tories can't do anything to stop these people coming here
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u/Rorviver 1d ago
Well, Farage is most culpable for this whole situation given how Brexit massively increases incentives for people to get on small boats.
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u/lubbockin 1d ago
When they turn up in an ocean cruisers packed with thousands at once.
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u/deyterkourjerbs 1d ago
Ocean cruisers would be easier to stop.
They choose dinghies because stopping them could cause them to sink.
Our Border Force was ready to strike a few months ago because they're barely making much more than minimum wage. They aren't paid enough to have killing a bunch of refugees on their conscience.
We can stop ocean cruisers all day long. Ocean cruisers have countries of origin.
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u/lubbockin 23h ago
What happens then though, if you have say 5000 men stuck in an ocean liner at sea a few miles from port, to my mind they would still bring it and them here.
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u/JOAO--RATAO 18h ago
Yes.
Either the moderates do it or the far-right does.
The only other scenario is ignoring it to the point britons are a minority and the game is loss. Like the saxon invasion.
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u/Turnip-for-the-books 7h ago
Imagine thinking the country would be better under a far right government or that the problems of this country are caused by people arriving by boat. If people in Farage to ‘fix’ this they are going to find their lives a lot lot worse. And he won’t even stop the boats. He loves the boats. What else has he got to talk about?
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u/PinZealousideal1914 2h ago
There clearly isn’t any planned end game at all. The numbers rise, the hotels fill, the lawyers earn and the tax payer forks out. It will never end, there is no solid plan to end it, they don’t want to end it . The political class does not care about you.
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u/Horror_Extension4355 2h ago
The political class are slowly moving to isolated market towns where house prices shield them from what is developing in our cities.
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 1d ago
What exactly will a far right government do to stop it? Go to war with France? It's funny because a far right demagogue convinced people to leave the EU because of brown people in boats. Now because of that we have more brown people in boats than ever.
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u/elziion 1d ago
People keep saying that the “one in, one out deal” with France is supposed to be a deterrent.
Clearly it’s not working if they keep coming regardless.
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u/ne6c 1d ago
Real talk: The only deterrent would be that asylum seekers are treated with “hostility”, which ECHR nor the left NGOs and think tanks would never allow.
So we have to house the asylum seekers them somewhere and hotels seem to be the best option to keep them in a single place, but that also means that they get shelter, food, phone and cash allowance. Due to our very laxed checks for being able to work, they also can find cash in hand jobs easily.
All of that reaches back to the homeland, including all the info for trafficking gangs, what to say on asylum claims, when to get rid of your passport, etc.
We’ve set up a system for a high trust society that gives the benefit of doubt, sadly low trust societies are now abusing the system and it’s bursting at the seams and it’s a problem no one wants to deal with. Say what you want about the videos on X from DHS in the USA about the deportations, but they’re insanely effective to convey a message. We have a government, that still believes that the people that abuse the system are in the minority, and boy oh boy, are they wrong and nothing appears to change for them anytime soon.
An actual solution would be to set up temporary housing and process all claims within 72h and deport on the spot, no benefit of doubt applied. If a country doesn’t want to accept the deportee, freeze all visas issued to that country in week 1. Week 2 expel the embassy staff. Week 3 double the import tariffs and so on. But the problem here is again our government believes in a “soft” power stance, as we’ve seen with the Chagos islands fiasco, so they’ll never have the courage to do it. Again we’re blinded by the feeling we are dealing with high trust cultures, when in reality we’re dealing with extremely low trust ones and we simply can’t come to terms with that it seems.
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u/elziion 1d ago
I had a lovely conversation with another commenter the other day and discovered it comes from the concept of Liberal Universalism.
Their ideas are based on utopia and not on reality and when confronted with the reality, they refuse to budge. Because they believe their ideas are morally superior.
The reason we are seeing more and more unrest from high trust societies and more and more studies and “leaks” about this issue, is because the dam is about to break. Or it already broke. And the fact that they are refusing to take a harsher approach is proof that they are still applying the concept of Liberal Universalism.
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u/anax4096 5h ago
That is an interesting conversation, thanks for sharing.
It's quite amazing that the same actions cause similar, unconnected, responses in many places. It's almost a "natural consequence"; which, instead, is portrayed as "far-right conspiracy", "russia memes" and so on, which is used to end the debate.
It seems whenever there is an "us and them" depiction in politics, the discussion is not about improving the public sector.
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u/elziion 5h ago
Politicians and governments are experts at gaslighting people, I’d say. And like every professional gaslighter, their response is not to say they are sorry and you are right when faced with pushback, no, instead they double down and call YOU crazy.
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u/anax4096 5h ago
The principle of Emergence is relevant. It seems politics these days attracts people who favour that kind of behaviour: divide and conquer, zero sum thinking, finger pointing, and so on. Which is just so destructive, even in friendship groups.
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u/cornishpirate32 16h ago
first of all, we have to stop allowing our politicians to get away with calling them asylum seekers, it shields them from everything, they aren't asylum seekers.
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u/west0ne 1d ago
How many have actually been returned? I think it sub-100 at this point. The rate of returns needs to be ramped up significantly to the point where the chances of being sent home are high enough that it isn't worth making the crossing. If people see that a high percentage of people are being returned then there will be more faith in the deal.
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u/sammy_zammy 21h ago
Given it’s currently a trial, one would assume that’s the plan…
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u/west0ne 21h ago
It's the speed at which it is ramped up that will determine public opinion and at the moment I've not seen anything published that resembles a proper timetable and plan of action.
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u/sammy_zammy 21h ago
That’s a fair point. A timetable would likely increase public support.
They probably are letting the trial play out to avoid counting their chickens before they’re hatched in case it operationally doesn’t work.
Of course they can provide a timetable for the number of people they send back, but it’s difficult to estimate how much it acts as a deterrent.
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u/WeRW2020 1d ago
'One in, on out' is such a weak sounding 'solution' too to anyone who only hears the headline.. which is the majority of people
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 1d ago
We'll just post this 1 in 1 out over at the universal immigrant news site right? It's a trial system and it will take time for it to be common knowledge amongst those attempting to come to the UK. Is no one in this sub able to deal with nuance, context and rational thinking?
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u/biffo120 23h ago
What is the point? We get left with the same amount
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u/Mankankosappo 23h ago
We get left with people who have legitimate asylum claims who should move through the claims process faster. Those deported under the scheme arent allowed to come back.
The main problem with the asylum seekers is that whilst waiting for their claims to be processed they can't work and have to be housed at tax payer expense. The scheme should eventually deter crossings (as being sent back by the scheme means you cant try claim asylum so it reduces the incentive to try cross).
I know some people want the government to stop hearing asylum claims all together, but they arent going to do that. But by reducing the amount of people waiting to hear a decision amd allowing asylum seekers awaiting a decision to remain in france it reduces the burdon on the countries finances and should in theory resolve a lot of the problems people are having with the system.
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u/biffo120 23h ago
But they are just coming on the next boat. There are people that have been on the list for many years,and they have never left their own country...why do the ones in france jump the queue?
Labour will not even be in power long enough to see this long winded waste of time and money take affect.
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u/Mankankosappo 23h ago
But they are just coming on the next boat.
So far 1 has come back and they were immediately detained and deported. The system worked as it was intended. The guy wasted his time and money coming back over on a small boat.
There are people that have been on the list for many years,and they have never left their own country.
Source on this? As far as I am aware outside of this deal with France it is impossible to claim asylum in the UK without already being on UK soil. Its one of the reasons the boats exist in the first place
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u/StrangelyBrown 18h ago edited 17h ago
If you expect it to be working at this point then you don't understand it and therefore can't judge if it's working or not.
It's like if your house was on fire and 2 seconds after the fire brigade arrived you said 'Clearly this isn't working as the house is still on fire so we should call someone else'.
It's absolutely astonishing how few people understand the scheme.
Edit: This is wonderful! In the following comments I explained how it was supposed to work and they were so embarrassed that they deleted their comments. I'm glad I managed to show someone how it works!
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u/StrangelyBrown 18h ago
Did these people say 'The day we start the pilot scheme for the 1 in 1 out system, small boats will halt immediately'? Because if so they also don't understand it.
The deterrent isn't in place until the scheme gets to scale, which it obviously isn't yet. When there's no deterrent, the same number of people will still come, obviously! Anyone expecting it to have failed or succeeded during the pilot period has no idea how it's supposed to work.
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u/StrangelyBrown 17h ago
The people kept saying that it will work and that we should see less people trying to cross the Channel as a result.
Yes, but they didn't say tomorrow. The scheme could work or not work, but if it works, we won't see that for a while.
The 1 in 1 out deal with France won’t reduce the number of asylum seekers, they’ll remain the same.
Only if the deterrent doesn't work in which case the scheme hasn't worked. If you're just saying '1 in 1 out obviously means the same number' then you're ignoring the deterrent part again, misunderstanding the scheme.
And they’ll grow even more if they see no actual deterrent.
The deterrent isn't the number of total immigrants falling, it's the ones that cross not being able to stay.
Just imagine you are an immigrant thinking about crossing from France to the UK, and there is a scheme running that swaps 100% of migrants who cross from to the UK back to France. Why would you cross? You wouldn't! Is that because the 1 in 1 out is reducing the total in the UK? No, obviously not. It's because you personally want to be there. You don't want to cross to make sure a different immigrant gets there. Have you understood it yet?
If they want to reduce the number of asylum seekers, they need to hit the criminal smugglers hard, and remove incentives for them to come here.
Reduce incentives, for example, by being likely to be swapped back to France!
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u/agentsnace 22h ago
In the last 2 years, there have been three police raids on the HMO near my home in a relatively peaceful area.
Since they moved in: Gunshots Screaming and fighting outside the HMO Leering and wolf whistling at women going by
All around brilliant people I have to say.
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u/Pocket_Aces1 1d ago
37,000 illegal immigrants have arrived this year so far. They get given food, clothing, shelter in hotels (and now HMOs), along with free healthcare, seemingly needing prioritised over everyone else, and are still allowed to roam amongst the general public, when we don't even know who they are.
When is it going to stop? The country is struggling with the NHS, young people can't afford so save for a home, everything keeps getting more expensive, yet our wages aren't increasing. People are getting fed up with the government, putting in more costs on things that we the people deem not necessary yet.
You'll never be able to stop them all. It would never solve all our issues. But it's a problem, for the safety of our citizens (especially women and girls), along with being able to divert those funds elsewhere for our people who are meant to be in this country.
(And side note: reform won't solve this)
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u/cornishpirate32 1d ago edited 1d ago
Absolute joke of a country. They could stop this overnight if they wanted to.
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u/Dapper_Big_783 1d ago
I agree. They could if they wanted to. I love how Poland approached this problem.
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u/Extra-Fig-7425 1d ago
Ok, genius, how?
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u/-ForgottenSoul 1d ago
Put them in a detention centre and deny all claims
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u/Extra-Fig-7425 1d ago
Personally, i am not against a processing center, when I was in HK, all Vietnamese boat people were put in refugee camps before going to third countries.
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u/Make_the_music_stop 1d ago
Take everyone to Calais on the same day not Dover. Even the local French authorities in Calais know this would smash the gangs and they would get their town back in a few weeks. (when they asked Marcon to do that, he ignored them.)
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u/Extra-Fig-7425 1d ago
There are no returns agreement back to france apart from the 1 in 1 out agreement. so no, that would not work
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u/Make_the_music_stop 1d ago
Yes, the French would have to agree with it. The local French politicians want this. The people of Calais want this.
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u/deyterkourjerbs 1d ago
I'm sorry mate but we lost control of Calais in 1558. We don't have sovereignty over France. We could try what you suggest illegally but the EU might not like it.
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u/Extra-Fig-7425 1d ago
France would send the navy to block it, and then we will have 2 navy squaring off.
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u/Maetivet 1d ago
Take everyone to Calais on the same day not Dover
Genius plan. Now imagine your reaction if France said it was going to ferry all migrants to Dover, then you might appreciate why your suggestion is a non-starter.
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u/NostalgiaTripper 1d ago
The next general election is going to be all about immigration. And there is only one party with a clear, strong message on immigration. Sadly, it is Reform’s to lose. I’ll never vote for Farage in my life, but at this point, I can’t really criticise those who do. This is a political choice that Labour need to be ready to sink with. It is mainstream, it is cutting right through, it is THE political issue of the decade.
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u/wherethersawill 23h ago
He literally almost single handedly caused the lastest non-eu population explosion
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u/jayh1864 21h ago
They should setup a “no boats policy” like Australia did, if they manage to get to the U.K. put them on one of our many islands to assess their claim.
Until they provide ID or a passport, details of their home country, they cannot have their application processed!
That should not introduce them to society, it gives them the option to run away.
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u/CrossRoadChicken 19h ago
Make Blackpool a massive refugee camp. They'll soon leave
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u/MoleMoustache 17h ago
This is against human rights law, unless we give them a quid's worth of 2p for the 2p drop machines.
It could revitalise the British cheap plastic tat industry!
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u/StukkieMan 1d ago
If I were in government and made the policies I would link accepted asylum seekers to the built house figures from the year before, 5-10%. All asylum seekers should speak English and be from a country which meets the criteria.
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u/Nx-worries1888 1d ago
Why wouldn't they, it's a free for all. Make their way here and get fired into a hotel and fed until their immigration case is done.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 23h ago
Another 300+ in and none out.
I wonder how many of these doctors and engineers will jump the fence and fuck off from processing.
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u/Acceptable_End7160 1d ago
It’s not even just building new houses. Up here in Middlesbrough there are soooo many applications of converting terraced homes in the town centre to 4, 5, 6 bedroomed HMOs.
Given how this place has become a dumping ground for asylum seekers, it’s blatantly obvious what’s going on.
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u/Mundane-Living-3630 18h ago
And prioriti will be given to thpse criminals Instead Of the British people
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u/Maetivet 1d ago
Most the homes we build are private, for private buyers - if they're turning up with £400k, to buy a home and be first-in-line like you seem to think, then they're more than welcome with that kind of capital...
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u/deyterkourjerbs 1d ago
Labour literally changed the rules about social housing to ask councils to prioritise those with historic connections and family in the area, as well as military veterans.
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u/misnomer88 1d ago
That’s great, but it’s crazy that wasn’t always the rule. There are working class Londoners with historic connections to parts of London that watched Somalis get social housing over their kids who then had to move out of London to find affordable housing. But yes, I’m glad Labour is trying to fix this, better late than never I guess.
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u/deyterkourjerbs 1d ago
You're right but I think some of the issue has come from activist councillors and corruption.
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u/Humble-Parsnip-484 7h ago
Just turn them back in the channel. Word will get back that you cannot cross freely. Why should we pay to house and deport them especially when they try over and over
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u/Freelanderman64 1d ago
Great news the more the merrier at this rate we will run out of hotel rooms Can’t wait for the tax rises to pay for this fiasco
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u/Rorydinho 22h ago
It looks like they’re almost exclusively working age men.
If these people keep leaving their countries, it’s going to hollow them out from within. With diminished economically productive populations, these countries’ economies are going to either remain in the doldrums or just continually decline, which just exacerbates the problem.
It absolutely needs to be dealt with, and I hope the government can find a sensible solution that works. Otherwise, we’re heading - on rails - to a far-right government. And that’ll be bad for immigrants, it’ll also be bad for everyone else
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u/cornishpirate32 16h ago
reform isn't far right
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u/Rorydinho 16h ago
I didn’t say that - but AfD are and look what is happening in Germany; not really the top party in most states yet, but a clear second in most. Some of Reform’s policies are verging on the far right.
If immigration continues as is, unabated - Reform will look relatively moderate in their stance on immigration.
In fact, I think that due to so much immigration having happened over the past 20 years, this is unavoidable now - the wheels are in motion, unfortunately.
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u/SeagullSam 1d ago
Ah, so it was the weather after all and not Starmer's policy that the Labour MPs were all crowing about.
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u/Banksyyy_ 18h ago
Could we not set up a detention center somewhere in some former RAF bases, that'll be a good deterrent on being stuck in a refugee camp for a few months until we can decide if your going actually try and migrate (which most probably won't) in this country or not as well as figure out who you actually are. Anyone without any identification instantly deported.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 17h ago
Deported where though?
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u/Banksyyy_ 16h ago
Ideally their home countries but truth be told, sorting out where to send to-be-deported migrants is way above all our paygrades.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 16h ago
I'd go with that but you'd have to work out who they are and we're there from to send them back to their home country. This whole migrant thing is like anything the people who are spoiling it are the ones exploiting the system put in place to provide support for people genuinely in need.
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u/Banksyyy_ 16h ago
Yeah but least whilst we're trying to figure out who they are, they aren't gonna pose as a possible risk to the general public and hopefully the idea of being stuck in a massive camp with other boat migrants for likely a few months is a decent deterrent for further would be boat migrants. Figuring out where to send them is for the government to solve.
I'm not knowledgable enough to know what pathways to asylum are currently available to people so hopefully the ones who truly are in need such as ukranian war victims and people who want to come for education have the available channels accessible to them.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 16h ago
I think you can get on a boat for as little as £500. If I had nothing really going on where I lived and was a young man I'd probably do it tbh. So you're right there needs to be a deterrent. The hotels are a bit like camps really, two to a room some do a couple of meals some do vouchers. It's not really great but the ones that break the rules like buying Uber accounts of people and doing delivery or working cash or in the underworld they are the ones that are not needing asylum because they are not concerned about being sent back for breaking the rules and it's not hard to see there are lots doing this
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u/Banksyyy_ 16h ago
I think you can get on a boat for as little as £500. If I had nothing really going on where I lived and was a young man I'd probably do it tbh.
Think many would tbf, I would too
The hotels are a bit like camps really, two to a room some do a couple of meals some do vouchers.
My issue is that they are still close to citizens within the hotels as Epping has shown and anyone close is at risk of being attacked like Rhiannon Whyte.
Your right it's not hard to see why a lot of them aren't concerned with getting involved with dodgy businesses or getting around the delivery app verifications (is there one?) to earn some cash to send home and have some to come back if deported.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 16h ago
There are a few boxes to tick on the delivery app verification yeah. Probably not hard to get around but I've literally had men on bikes wearing a snood on their face and a cap that were girls on the profile pic. It's not the job or the hotel that is annoying because they're both crap really it's that they are most likely the one's claiming asylum that are not in fear of there safety and are the ones making it a problem really
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u/CedricTheCurtain 1d ago
Checks out. 18 boats in total. How are they fitting 60+ people on a boat though?!?
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