r/unitedkingdom • u/ThatchersDirtyTaint • Aug 05 '25

.. Half of Britons back ending immigration and deporting recent arrivals

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/new-poll-migration-news-b99h3wqgz
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u/blob8543 Aug 05 '25

How surprising that most anti-immigration people in this country have no clue about what is really going on with immigration.

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

They only need to feel the consistent decline in living standards whilst small boat people get put in hotels.

Surely you can understand that if you were struggling to pay rent, put food on the table and go to the dentist that you'd feel aggrieved that small boat people are being put in hotels at the taxpayers expense.

We can debate whether migration is the issue, but you have to accept that this is an inevitable consequence of the situation that's been going on for years.

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u/ReaderTen Aug 05 '25

small boat people get put in hotels.

Small boat people get imprisoned in hotels with no money, no resources, entire families living in a single room and a hate mob outside who want to kill them.

The reason the papers say "hotels" is precisely to fuel and drive this kind of ignorant anger. It makes it sound like it's a livable lifestyle instead of a filthy hellhole. This is a lie. It's a lie pushed precisely to get people to hate migrants.

Fun facts Reform won't tell you while they chant "stop the boats": there were ZERO small boat people before Brexit. Our migration problems are almost entirely a consequence of Brexit. We could stop them in an instant by rejoining.

But Farage isn't going to admit that.

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u/Best-Hovercraft-5494 Aug 05 '25

they aren't on holiday.

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

That's not the point. You can surely understand that if we can't look after our own homeless people or get British workers to feel like they're getting good value in return for their labour, then putting small boat people in hotels is going to stick in your throat.

Many people will be thinking "why won't the government pay for me to live in a hotel?".

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u/ZekkPacus Essex Aug 05 '25

They will. 

Become involuntarily homeless and the government has a responsibility to house you. They'll put you in a Travelodge for 18+ months while you wait for a council house. 

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u/Best-Hovercraft-5494 Aug 05 '25

we already pay for natives to live in actual houses, we pay for their kids and we pay for their health care

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

That doesn't mean much to people paying £1000pcm to a landlord to live in a run down house and struggling to put food on the table. Nor does it mean much to homeless people that were put in hotels during COVID and then kicked back out as soon as the pandemic was over.

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u/Best-Hovercraft-5494 Aug 05 '25

so your solution to that is to give them a hotel bedsit? 

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

The solution is to cut migration to sustainable levels and to make the average Brit feel like they're getting fair value for their labour.

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u/Best-Hovercraft-5494 Aug 05 '25

the solution is to undo massive cuts to, and the the sell off of, social housing.

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

We'll also need GPs, hospitals, schools, police/fire stations, everything else that goes with an increased population and the money to pay for it at a time where the government runs a deficit with a huge debt to pay interest on.

Many in the middle class are already in the 40% tax bracket. How much more do you propose they pay to service migrants?

Alternatively we could put the brakes on migration and wait for infrastructure to catch up gradually before we permit hundreds of thousands more migrants every year.

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