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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Park bantam, Jun 14, 2018.

  1. Offcomedun

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    No one thinks that's alright. And I have said clearly on here that I think that most of the Albanians are not genuine asylum seekers and should be stopped from coming here or deported if they get here. But let's be clear, this fecking useless bunch of incompetents we call a government have been in power for 13 years and have presided over a massive increase in illegal immigrants. They use inflammatory language and empty threats to stir up the xenophobes but completely fail to deal with the situation. Criminalising genuine asylum seekers isn't going to stop the bogus ones trying their damnedest to get here.

    The idea that we are in danger of being 'completely swarmed by illegals' is massive hyperbole. It's what the government wants us to believe, to deflect from the real economic damage that their mismanagement has caused to ordinary British people. They want us to blame the foreigners instead of the corrupt incompetents who've caused our decline since 2010.

    But it would certainly help if the set of morons in charge could sort out the mess they've made of the system so that we can deport bogus asylum seekers quickly, without paying billions to keep them in hotels and centres.
     
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  2. Offcomedun

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    I fully accept that Labour made a hash of the 2019 election. But it's way too simplistic to pin that just on Brexit. I did quite a lot of leafletting and door knocking in various parts of Bradford near the election. It was crystal clear from people's responses that their dislike of Jeremy Corbyn was the biggest factor in refusing to vote Labour, not Brexit. Time after time I was told 'I'm never voting Labour while Corbyn is leader'.
     
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    What exactly is our fair share in your eyes though? We have around the same population as France for example but France has way more land. We have a housing crisis here because we struggle to build enough houses for our current population and the houses we are building are not only being crammed so much that residents in London in 1666 would complain that things were too cramped but it's taking up more and more of our green space.

    We can't just take anyone who wants to come here. Currently, the UK has 272 people per square km and if we just take England which is where most of them will land its 424 people per square km (Scotland and Wales have way more space but when you consider the majority of Scotland's population is in that Glasgow to Edinburgh corridor it tells you about how unappealing most of Scotland is as a place to live and work). We need to be more selective about who is legitimate and who will benefit the country and we certainly can't just accept illegals who can't be arsed to try and come here correctly, who would rather pay criminals to smuggle them in before they disappear into the black economy so are just a drain on society as they give nothing back.

    If we are to be doing anything it should maybe be giving more to support countries with the space to take way more people like France with their 118 people per sqr km or Spain with their 92 so there can be less justification for them basically just shipping them across the border to the next country like is happening. In fact maybe we need a central fund that everyone contributes to based on their GDP and countries are given grants from that based on how many they have taken in so the countries have more encouragement to take in what the available space allows
     
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    A big part of that though is we can't deport them because the extreme left who are generally rich enough to not live near where they are housed so having people whose applications have been rejected or rescinded often because of criminal actions doesn't matter to them; are happily bringing injunctions to stop them from being deported because hey their right not to go back and maybe getting killed is more important than protecting innocent tax paying Brits. And many of the things that are being used to have these injunctions happen are things Labour put in place under Blair (most likely led by his bitch of a wife). So you can't just blame the Tories.
     
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  5. Offcomedun

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    Who is suggesting that we 'just take anyone who wants to come here?' I'm certainly not. I fully accept that a majority of the people arriving on boats are not genuine asylum seekers. We need to sort out the system to process applications quickly so we can promptly send back those who aren't genuine, not criminalise everyone who arrives here, including the genuine ones. If we only accepted those who are genuine we would be in no danger of being 'swamped'.
     
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    "The extreme left" **so funny**so funny**so funny
    Since when were the SWP or GB Communist Party ever in power to make these rules you complain about?
    If you think Cherie Blair is extreme left then you really are living on planet Zog.
     
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    If you are arriving on a dingy you arent genuine, you are a criminal and should be sent back to the shit-hole country they fled, because you are trying to enter a country illegally you have given up your right to get asylum not just in the UK but any country. The law is pretty simple, you enter a safe country and then stop. From there you can then apply for Asylum in a country of your choosing and you wait where you are while your application is processed. You are a criminal the minute you choose to move from that safe country. What we have though is countries that are entry points are taking other countries' money that they pay them to help fund centres and camps to house them but then basically pushing them over their borders so it's someone else problem. We are paying the likes of Turkey money yet these people end up in France, where we are also then paying them a lot of money who are then basically handing them over to people traffickers to make it not their problem. TBH I wouldn't be surprised if various French officials are on the take from the traffickers because it's worth so much money to them both for the journey over and often when they get here as they generally have things over them that even if they get picked up and are granted asylum they are often forced into the black economy to 'pay them back'.

    And as I've said we can't send them back because do-gooders start screaming about Human rights even when the person in question is a murderer or rapist. This is exactly why we need rules that let us kick them out right away because currently the second asylum application is considered it means expensive court case after expensive court case to remove them. It's also why in theory the Rwandan idea isn't a bad one, if you have a country that wants and needs these people and where we can help pay the country to support them for way less than it costs to keep them here and that country is safe for them then that's perfect (although we should be trying to filter out the bad apples and send those people back to their home country as no-one wants a bunch of low-life scum. They need people who will be productive citizens not criminals). The only problem is that perhaps Rwanda is the wrong country as our gov highlighted their human rights issues less than 2 years ago but there absolutely are countries out there than could do with the money and population boost to help them put together the infrastructure to bring the countries forward that they maybe wouldn't have otherwise.

    Extreme is subjective, just like most of those labelled extreme-right aren't really extreme-right users. The line to me for when you enter extremism territory is when you start removing the rights of the masses for the minority. So in this case when you
    • Force businesses such as Hotels to house people who illegally entered the country and pay them a rate well below what they would actually charge despite their costs being the same (and by all account maybe higher)
    • Put them in Social Housing in a priority over actual residents of the country
    • Giving them access to the NHS which is stretched and worst of all giving them priority to NHS dentists which the rest of us can't get. Why exactly should the rest of us be expected to pay many many times more to go private for dental treatment, its over £50 for me to have a checkup where if I could get an NHS spot it would be £23.50 for a checkup. If I needed a root canal its £64 on the NHS and nearly £400 on private. That's just wrong, especially when unlike them myself and many others in the same boat and have been paying taxes, which should be giving us more rights than them on these things.
    • When their application is denied fighting it over and over again through the courts costs the country a fortune thus taking away money that could be spent on service for actual Brits. Or even to help make the actual asylum process for people who abide by the rules and apply in the first safe country better
    • When you choose to fight to keep proven rapists and murderers in the country because their human rights would be at risk if sent back thus removing actual Brit's right to not be fecking raped or murdered by these scumbags.
    If compulsory purchase orders were made to acquire some of the land owned by people like Cherrie Blairs and build asylum housing and then stick the people they have fought to keep in the country and watch how quickly they change their mind. It's like with Lineker, while at least he has actually taken 2 asylum seekers in but let's be honest here they were carefully hand-picked. One was a law student from Pakistan, the other a man from Turkey who was going to University to study with the hope of becoming a Rocket Scientist. Both countries they arrived from have somewhat more westernised values than those landing from the likes of Albania or Syria and neither is exactly your average person landing on these shores who really have no prospects. Oh and in both cases both applied and were accepted by the proper channels. Would he take in a group of Albinian or Syrian men with such different values and with no prospects in the way that many small communities are being forced to accept them right now? Like hell he would because the risk to him would be too high.
     
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    Brexit caused this - France kept them there prior to 2020

    Nobody wants illegal economic migration but if the govt had more safe and legal passages into the UK asylum system then we wouldnt need to worry about those in dinghies being asylum seekers. The gov are to blame here and their only solution is to break international law. Clowns.
     
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    dont get your knickers in a twist
     
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    That's not true though, we were having issues with illegal immigration before Brexit too. The French have for a long time made it difficult for them to apply for Asylum in France. They require an address to start the process but many of them don't have an address. It's why coastal towns such as Calais were famous for their refugee jungles as these were people stuck in limbo where they couldn't apply to stay in France even if they wanted to stay in France. While many always intended to come to the UK (Some of these were turning down the limited refugee housing because to get the housing they needed to give their fingerprints which would have absolutely prevented them from applying for asylum in any other country) and while France has been forced to get rid of these they didn't really get rid of the people, they now just live in one of the many smaller ad-hoc migrant camps. France knew what they were doing they were pushing many even if they would have been happy in France to make the choice of living in these horrible camps or try their luck with the traffickers.

    What Brexit has done though is make it more visible. It was more common for them to be smuggled in via Lorry and the likes. The Le Touquet agreement means that border control between the UK and France sees French border control being on the UK side and UK border control on the French side so when illegals were caught they are turned away before crossing the UK border so it was less noticeable. (And for the record they have to go through the border control of the country they are in and the one they are going to so there are two points of getting caught). And the reality was the limited checks that were happening due to open borders meant they were often sneaking through unnoticed and never entering the system, they just disappeared into the modern slavery of the Black economy

    Now with the extra border checks due to Brexit its a more risky route so they have switched much more to Dingys because once they are on the water they either make it across unnoticed or they get picked up usually by the UK so get brought to the UK. As they generally get spotted and picked up and enter the system so its more noticeable and the figures look higher because of that but we really don't know how both now and before made it into the country unnoticed.

    The only way Brexit has really had an impact is the part of the Dublin protocol that lets you return those who entered illegally back to the first member state that passed through but we were only doing that about 200 times a year before because it was only when there were raids on business that were part of the Black economy that we found illegals within UK borders that we could return and even then in those cases its often hard to prove what was the first member state so an agreement could be had of where they should be returned to.

    You could argue Brexit has made things better because pushing people into the boats actually allows us a better idea of who and how many are entering illegally which makes it easier to manage everything around it and can reduce the chances of them getting stuck in modern slavery as that's much easier for the criminal gangs to do when the people are ghosts
     
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    Think rhe increase is an issue to do with sophistication of the gangs rather than anything to do with government policy or even Brexit for that matter. The people running the show have realised how lucrative it is and upped their game.
     
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    I agree with this but the bank of legislation built up over recent years (some of which a result of ECJ rulings) combined with the guidance of the trafficking gangs means quick processing is impossible.

    For example if somebody claims that they are an independent, undercover journalist or a homosexual that would be persecuted in their own country how do you verify that quickly to keep it fair for those in need to weed out the game players and deal with the endless appeal processes.

    The only solution is to have harsher rules and a higher bar for acceptance but any time these sorts of things are mentioned a large section of the society freaks out. As they do any time anything is suggested to stop the issue.
     
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    But the massive recent increase is driven by Albanians. Nobody believes that those people are being persecuted so it would be relatively quick and simple to process and deport them quickly if we had a properly functioning system. Take those out and the remaining numbers are nothing to get our knickers in a twist about.
     
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    How naive, still would have been some 30,000 others last year and maybe 60,000 non Albanians this year, and no doubt they are still some in lorries,cars and boats that we don't know about..
    And you'd never mention the 1,000,000 (505,000 net) that came here 'legally' and all this is just in one year
    We are sinking fast and it cannot be denied
    We cannot be responsible for all the 7-8 billion folk on this planet nor why should we....
     
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    Once again agree with your underlying thought process.

    The problem is surely that where normal people like you and I can see that Albanians aren't being persecuted, the system puts the onus of proof on the state to prove they're not and the traffickers know this. They therefore know what to tell their clients to make the process as difficult as possible and to make rejection of their claims as lengthy and costly as possible.

    Given that you can't discriminate on nationality how do you get past this?

    It's a judiciary/legislature problem rather than a policy one. Do you think if it was as simple as "just send Albanians back and get rid of spurious claims" they wouldn't have done it already?
     
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    There's no legal basis for claiming asylum from Albania. It's a safe European country. I don't have a problem with sending back Albanians without legal recourse because they simply don't meet the basic qualification for asylum, ie that they're coming from a country where they face persecution, torture, death etc.
    But blanket banning everyone is wrong.
     
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    There clearly is a legal basis since Albanians are being granted asylum. I think we can all agree that it's nuts.

    But it shows everything that is wrong with the system but as I keep saying that a legislative problem (a lot of it from the European Courts who set the bar too low) rather than a policy one. But this is the system we've got and there doesn't seem to be any will from some sides to try and change something everyone can see gives crazy outcomes.

    If the government could simply overule the courts rulings they already would have done but they can't so they have to mess around with complicated things like Rwanda and the current attempt at making rules that sit above the courts.
     
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    Your usual hysterical overreaction.

    If we are sinking fast its because of our bullshit government. We're a rich country that could easily cope with our fair share of genuine asylum seekers if this 13 year old Tory regime hadn't stagnated our economy, decimated our public services, failed to build any social housing, pushed all the wealth into the hands of a tiny minority and completely scuppered the systems for sorting out the genuine refugees from the economic migrants.
     
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    No one would give the time of day to anyone claiming asylum from Germany, Holland, Italy, Australia etc. They'd be laughed back onto the plane. Why can't we treat Albania in the same way?
     
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    But the countries the majority of these asylum seekers are coming through Greece, Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, etc are also safe countries to seek asylum why is it most want to come to the UK.
     
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