A new influx of boat people from france.

[ANGELFIRE1]

There is a rising number of people crossing the Channel, even though the weather has been terrible.  It raises a couple of questions, why do they pass through several Countries where they could settle, just to get to France, then onto our shores. What should we do with the people we rescue from the seas. If we allow them to come here, does it encourage even more to risk death to land on British soil, knowing if they get here the chance of removing them is almost zero. What is the great attraction of this Country that you would risk death to get here.

 

Angel1

[Guest makapaka]

9 minutes ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

There is a rising number of people crossing the Channel, even though the weather has been terrible.  It raises a couple of questions, why do they pass through several Countries where they could settle, just to get to France, then onto our shores. What should we do with the people we rescue from the seas. If we allow them to come here, does it encourage even more to risk death to land on British soil, knowing if they get here the chance of removing them is almost zero. What is the great attraction of this Country that you would risk death to get here.

 

Angel1

They’re not boat people- they’re people.

 

if they are willing to risk death to get here I’m sure they have a very good reason.

[truman]

12 minutes ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

There is a rising number of people crossing the Channel, even though the weather has been terrible.  It raises a couple of questions, why do they pass through several Countries where they could settle, just to get to France, then onto our shores. What should we do with the people we rescue from the seas. If we allow them to come here, does it encourage even more to risk death to land on British soil, knowing if they get here the chance of removing them is almost zero. What is the great attraction of this Country that you would risk death to get here.

 

Angel1

Don't know the answer...what do you think?

Edited November 28, 2018 by truman

[geared]

22 minutes ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

If we allow them to come here, does it encourage even more to risk death to land on British soil, knowing if they get here the chance of removing them is almost zero.

Alot of those arriving are Iranian, they travelled via Serbia as very recently there was visa-free travel between Iran and Serbia, many people used it as a way to flee the country.

I believe the visa-free period has ended now.

 

They made their way through Europe and are trying to get to the UK - maybe they just speak English and not French/German/Italian etc, or have friends/family here already?

[El Cid]

28 minutes ago, geared said:

They made their way through Europe and are trying to get to the UK - maybe they just speak English and not French/German/Italian etc, or have friends/family here already?

 

Some countries have many, many more immigrants than us, so we may be more welcoming?

[Hots on]

3 hours ago, El Cid said:

,Some countries have many, many more immigrants than us, so we may be more welcoming?

I love this "we" bit.

 

Refugees/low end immigrants always get plonked in amongst the poorest indigenous communities. Lets put them in Dore or somewhere like that for a change. The do-gooders that tend to reside in these places, will change their tunes then.

Edited November 28, 2018 by Hots on

[max]

1 hour ago, Hots on said:

I love this "we" bit.

 

Refugees/low end immigrants always get plonked in amongst the poorest indigenous communities. Lets put them in Dore or somewhere like that for a change. The do-gooders that tend to reside in these places, will change their tunes then.

Nobody gets "plonked" or "put" anywhere, they move in to rented accommodation and the cheapest tends to be in "poorer" areas.  Like everything in this world, it's basic economics which determines where people live.

[Hots on]

Just now, max said:

Nobody gets "plonked" or "put" anywhere, they move in to rented accommodation and the cheapest tends to be in "poorer" areas.  Like everything in this world, it's basic economics which determines where people live.

What  a coincidence that all those hundreds of separate individual Roma all seemed to land on Pagehall like that; "fancy seeing you here", they must have said to one another as they settled in, "its a small world isn't it". 

[lil-minx92]

1 hour ago, Hots on said:

I love this "we" bit.

 

Refugees/low end immigrants always get plonked in amongst the poorest indigenous communities. Lets put them in Dore or somewhere like that for a change. The do-gooders that tend to reside in these places, will change their tunes then.

Imagine the uproar from the usual right wingers who tend to reside in the poorer areas if they saw refugees being given nicer housing than their own!

[max]

4 minutes ago, Hots on said:

What  a coincidence that all those hundreds of separate individual Roma all seemed to land on Pagehall like that; "fancy seeing you here", they must have said to one another as they settled in, "its a small world isn't it". 

Probably the same thing was said by the previous occupants, West Indian, Irish or Pakistani before they all improved their lots and moved to more salubrious suburbs.