Migrants crossing the Channel

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likemydreams wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:16 am Not at all , but charity starts at home so lets look after home 1st , i know this is a complicated matter but whilst we're in a cost of living crisis we need to make ourselves harder to enter
We are an island that doesn't allow you to apply for asylum outside the country. Short of pulling the island 500miles north, how much harder can we make it?

Even then all you'd need to do is book a return flight and disappear
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The RNLI can't be blamed. People die crossing the channel and they put their own lives at risk to help others.

People will always try to reach the UK as long as it has something to offer them that is better than elsewhere.

I was watching something the other day that followed a group of migrants and they were saying that they know their application in France would be rejected (and I assume the same with the several other countries they pass through), and face deportation, so they risk the dangers of the Channel as our system is pretty much inefficient (and the benefits/services they have access to is greater whilst they find work).

It's been said a few times here (TTS if I remember), there should really be hubs across the continent where applications can be processed.
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Well you know the old saying,when things start going wrong in a country,blame the unions and immigrants.
Seems familiar.
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likemydreams wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:16 am Not at all , but charity starts at home so lets look after home 1st , i know this is a complicated matter but whilst we're in a cost of living crisis we need to make ourselves harder to enter
Harder to enter ?

What proportion of the , very nearly 2,610,024 people who were granted entry in the year to September come via a dinghy?

Of those granted entry 248,919 were granted work visas.

Are those arriving by dinghy such a problem to an extent that you think the RNLI are some sort of a problem?
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Oldun wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:10 am Well you know the old saying,when things start going wrong in a country,blame the unions and immigrants.
Seems familiar.
No worries about that on here...... :lol:
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Virtue signalling post alert...

If anyone is looking for a way to a) help migrants and b) learn some useful cookery skills you could do worse than buying yourself a lesson at Migrateful

https://www.migrateful.org/

I went a couple of weeks ago with my daughter and had a brilliant afternoon learning how to make Chinese cabbage dumplings from scratch. Located in London, Bristol, Brighton and Kent.
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likemydreams wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:16 am we need to make ourselves harder to enter
If only your mum had done the same

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^ ^ I was waiting for someone to make the tap in, a bit disappointing it was there for so long before someone did, we need to up our game for the new year....... :lol:
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^^^^ How recent is that? surely its not current, otherwise they'd be wrapped up a lot more, surely?
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What is the point of the post? Are we reduced to guessing via the medium of **** tweets?
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ive seen similar just off oxford street in london .
also locally we have Bulgarians who like to congregate in groups smoke n chat and drink in public,
its what they do ,not hurting anyone but can be a little intimidating .
all very european .
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Hammer1966 wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:34 pm What is the point of the post? Are we reduced to guessing via the medium of **** tweets?
Considering we've had someone on here quote a tweet containing the left leaning dribblings of the lead singer of the Charlatans as a credible news source then yes mate,.........
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Not good reading for Braverman:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21103563/ ... s-rapists/

Even more so as it's from the side of the media that we're told is in bed with the Tories........
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delbert wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:25 pm Not good reading for Braverman:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21103563/ ... s-rapists/

Even more so as it's from the side of the media that we're told is in bed with the Tories........
Rats deserting a sinking ship.
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Is this country complicit in child trafficking and kidnap?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... fice-hotel
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Probably more incompetence than complicit mate. As I posted on the other thread, aside from those who are worryingly getting picked up against their will I wouldn't be too surprised if some are not really kids and / or are simply being picked up by their mates to continue their journey, or as Monkeybubbs posted, possibly just re-joining their Albanian gang.
No matter what, it's still yet another failing......
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64507248

They probably thought the poor sods had been through enough already.
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Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:41 pm Is this country complicit in child trafficking and kidnap?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... fice-hotel
Does anyone think children are actually going missing oppose to men that said they were 14 running away?

No CCTV or videos of the children being taken seem to be about...
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