> After his father’s death, Farruku spent time with his sisters in Italy and tried to get a job there but it did not work out. Both Aliaj and Andi said Farruku then seemed set on moving to the UK, where he had cousins.
> “He wanted to go to the UK but because it’s very difficult, seeking asylum was the way he understood it could happen and he could have permission to work, but I don’t know of any real reason for him to seek asylum,” Andi said.
On a personal level it’s a sad story, but ultimately he shouldn’t have been there. He lied his way into the UK because it’s easier than getting a work visa and took up funds and space needed for actual, legitimate asylum seekers. He was safe in Italy but chose to attempt to circumvent our immigration rules so he could make more money.
> “I have a question for the Home Office. Why do you give migrants hope and then kill them? By killing them you are killing us too. What I want to know is the truth about what happened to Leonard.”
This really irks me. This accommodation is meant to be for people fleeing wars and humanitarian disasters. It’s supposed to give THEM hope, not aspiring rappers from Albania, and it will literally save their life. To say the home office killed a man who got here under false pretences by not putting him up in a hotel is absurd and incredibly entitled.
If we didn’t have so many people doing this we wouldn’t have a barge in the first place.
I asked to be put on the barge(onto year 5 off of work awaiting an operation), nobody responded… 3 squares a day,hot water and heating (something I’ve not had in 3 years), sounds ideal?
“Why do you give migrants hope and then kill them? By killing them you are killing us too.”
Who in the UK gave an Albanian migrant entering illegally “hope”?
I don’t agree with the ‘Rwanda’ approach, but this is the argument in favour of it. By allowing them into the country at all and creating the possibility of them living here illegally even by just slipping through the cracks, you then let people believe that – well – I guess I might as well take a chance. You do give people hope.
It is better to have an asylum system of total certainty, even if it’s strict, than it is to have this leaky procedure we have now and then try to punish those who take a chance.
Those who live entirely off the money taken from workers and others should not complain.
Throw all these people off the barge , send them home and give their rooms to the homeless.
If you put nothing in you get nothing out. They moan about receiving accommodation.
Another far-right Discord raid on our beautiful sub. You’re not fooling anyone, you know.
Sadly this tragedy could have been avoided if we just had a functioning asylum system.
It both ensures that those who need it can get rapid access to the system and will deter those chancing their arm.
More case workers, better funded judicial system, and designated facilities will go a long way to ensure that tragedies like this don’t happen again.
We give people £3,000 on a prepaid card to use in their home country if they go home voluntarily, on top of a free flight home. Not a bad deal, he should have taken it.
Why did he get a dinghy? When he could have spent £30 to fly to the UK?
Why was he even here when Albania is a NATO member and safe country?
If he was from Albania why wasn’t he shoved on the next Ryan air flight back to Albania
They aren’t even pretending this bloke was a refugee and I’m supposed to feel sorry for him? A man who was gaming the system for personal gain died. I’m not going to pretend to care. People die every day. He could have just gone home.
No, you just don’t come to the UK illegally and expect to be let in and be given money, job and a house just because you’re “suffering.”
People who come here go through legal route and follow the procedures despite having life struggles themselves. Ask your own country and government for help. We are struggling in the UK ourselves. Life is not meant to be easy, especially for you and others like who are delusional and entitled. 😤
Just like he was tricked into crossing the channel when already in a safe country, I suppose.
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>The Albanian asylum seeker, 27
Stopped reading there
[From a different Guardian article](https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/05/the-tragedy-of-leonard-farruku-the-gifted-young-musician-whose-dream-of-a-better-life-ended-on-the-bibby-stockholm)
> After his father’s death, Farruku spent time with his sisters in Italy and tried to get a job there but it did not work out. Both Aliaj and Andi said Farruku then seemed set on moving to the UK, where he had cousins.
> “He wanted to go to the UK but because it’s very difficult, seeking asylum was the way he understood it could happen and he could have permission to work, but I don’t know of any real reason for him to seek asylum,” Andi said.
On a personal level it’s a sad story, but ultimately he shouldn’t have been there. He lied his way into the UK because it’s easier than getting a work visa and took up funds and space needed for actual, legitimate asylum seekers. He was safe in Italy but chose to attempt to circumvent our immigration rules so he could make more money.
> “I have a question for the Home Office. Why do you give migrants hope and then kill them? By killing them you are killing us too. What I want to know is the truth about what happened to Leonard.”
This really irks me. This accommodation is meant to be for people fleeing wars and humanitarian disasters. It’s supposed to give THEM hope, not aspiring rappers from Albania, and it will literally save their life. To say the home office killed a man who got here under false pretences by not putting him up in a hotel is absurd and incredibly entitled.
If we didn’t have so many people doing this we wouldn’t have a barge in the first place.
I asked to be put on the barge(onto year 5 off of work awaiting an operation), nobody responded… 3 squares a day,hot water and heating (something I’ve not had in 3 years), sounds ideal?
“Why do you give migrants hope and then kill them? By killing them you are killing us too.”
Who in the UK gave an Albanian migrant entering illegally “hope”?
I don’t agree with the ‘Rwanda’ approach, but this is the argument in favour of it. By allowing them into the country at all and creating the possibility of them living here illegally even by just slipping through the cracks, you then let people believe that – well – I guess I might as well take a chance. You do give people hope.
It is better to have an asylum system of total certainty, even if it’s strict, than it is to have this leaky procedure we have now and then try to punish those who take a chance.
Those who live entirely off the money taken from workers and others should not complain.
Throw all these people off the barge , send them home and give their rooms to the homeless.
If you put nothing in you get nothing out. They moan about receiving accommodation.
Another far-right Discord raid on our beautiful sub. You’re not fooling anyone, you know.
Sadly this tragedy could have been avoided if we just had a functioning asylum system.
It both ensures that those who need it can get rapid access to the system and will deter those chancing their arm.
More case workers, better funded judicial system, and designated facilities will go a long way to ensure that tragedies like this don’t happen again.
We give people £3,000 on a prepaid card to use in their home country if they go home voluntarily, on top of a free flight home. Not a bad deal, he should have taken it.
Why did he get a dinghy? When he could have spent £30 to fly to the UK?
Why was he even here when Albania is a NATO member and safe country?
If he was from Albania why wasn’t he shoved on the next Ryan air flight back to Albania
They aren’t even pretending this bloke was a refugee and I’m supposed to feel sorry for him? A man who was gaming the system for personal gain died. I’m not going to pretend to care. People die every day. He could have just gone home.
No, you just don’t come to the UK illegally and expect to be let in and be given money, job and a house just because you’re “suffering.”
People who come here go through legal route and follow the procedures despite having life struggles themselves. Ask your own country and government for help. We are struggling in the UK ourselves. Life is not meant to be easy, especially for you and others like who are delusional and entitled. 😤
Just like he was tricked into crossing the channel when already in a safe country, I suppose.