> A visa centre being set up in northern France to assist Ukrainian refugees will not offer appointments or walk-in access, and its exact location will not be made public, the Home Office has confirmed.
Absolutely disgraceful and disgusting of them. I’m almost ashamed to be British if that’s how they are going to treat them
Priti Patel really is a huge festering piece of shit. A daughter of Indian immigrants who lived in and subsequently fled Uganda to escape the tyranny and racial hatred stoked by Idi Amin.
You’d think she’d have empathy. Her parents must be ashamed and disgusted.
The life in the UK test really needs some updating on British values about xenophobia and a lack of compassion towards refugees.
Since 2016, every day has seen a new way to feel a little more embarrassed and ashamed to be British. What a revolting little country we’ve become.
Why fucking not! We are Great Britain we must do better than this.
The pathetic amount of obstacles is not a bug, it’s a feature of a system designed to deter immigration in order to appease the right wing Tory base.
This crisis highlights it for sure, but believe me the whole immigration system is much the same.
Expensive, slow, and full of bad faith technical obstacles.
This breaks me. Watching the news yesterday, Ukrainians were planning their trips to Lille without knowing what was going to be there, but they’re that desperate they would take the trip anyway. I sincerely hope they didn’t travel all that way to find out that they wouldn’t release the address and not accept walk ins. As if this situation couldn’t get worse.
What’s the rationale here? Approach to Afghanistan and Hong Kong was much more open. Is it that we totally miscalculated the extent of the conflict and so ended up woefully underprepared? Or that they have some internal estimates in Home Office about how many could come? (Where Af/HK were never likely to be over 100,000?)
This uk government has outstayed its welcome. I was going to say they’ve served their purpose but they haven’t even done that. Funny how a country that was once synonymous with the word empire is afraid of letting people in
Can somebody explain to me the purpose of this centre, if it does not accept appointments? Like, genuinely, what does it do? And don’t say “nothing”, the people that go there to work every day must do *something* right?
I believe it’s still accurate to say, more people attended illegal parties in Downing St then have been offered sanctuary from the fighting in Ukraine.
I am sure this will soon no longer be true, and a few thousand will eventually be allowed in, but how can it be that EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN EUROPE has taken in magnitudes more already, openly and without hesitation, and yet we have dragged our feet and done next to nothing? Not only that, but we have raised concerns that others (Ireland) have been welcoming and helpful in this time of crisis. This is beyond inhumane.
Is it purely bigotry or is there some fear that we will offend the Russia money men if we do open up?
fuck this country man. and they ask why we want independence
Britain voted for Brexit based on largely anti immigration/xenophobic bullshit but somehow people are surprised when we don’t offer refuges easy asylum.
Say you won’t admit any refugees without saying you won’t admit any refugees.,
Unless I was mistaken watching the Brexit referendum and Tory political campaigns. It was very clear to me that foreigners == (bad && unwelcome) unless wealthy. To my disappointment both Tories and Brexit won.
Now you get the same people asking for refugees to be let in, like they did not vote for this.
Mad world we live in.
Brexit Britain is a disgrace.
Patel is incapable of getting anything right.
UK : Mouth off like the magnanimous Big Shot; in reality behave like a callous Grifter that’s swindled a frail OAP out of their life-savings.
The UK gov lying again just to get votes. Like they did with Brexit. £350 millions for the NHS if we leave…. 2 years later during the pandemic “clap on your doorstep like a seal because the NHS is snowed under and that money we promised isn’t being used”
I’m so fucking glad I left the UK after 25 years.
I’m finding this all so distressing and upsetting, I’m so ashamed of our country. Ukrainians didn’t even need a visa to visit the UK before, I don’t understand why they can’t come in and then have their eligibility assessed for this longer term stay visa once they’re here or scrap the visa altogether like Ireland has done. The current process is inhumane
Britain has become a xenophobic nation. Totally shameful. And it’s no surprise as it was probably the main driving force for Brexit. Sad thing is that like all the other broken Brexit promises, it will not help, as we still need nurses and doctors and truck drivers and fruit pickers, etc.
Why are you even bothering to pretend. Just admit you won’t be taking any Ukrainians.
The UK doesn’t miss an opportunity to show the world how much it fucking sucks.
So what is the point of this centre, to make us look good? It’s failed at that already!
Its plain to see that the Torys have already been bought with Putins rubels. Of course they aren’t going to let any Ukrainians into Britain because their boss says they’re not allowed in.
Absolutely disgusting country I call home.
These are innocent people, including children that are being bombed indiscriminately.
They are people just like us. Help them. Where they were born is absolutely irrelevant.
New new visa will require a letter of recommendation for Putin himself
I’m actually embarrassed to be British when I read stuff like this.
Patel has to go, even if it’s just for being un British.
For fucks sake.. what is wrong with this government? Bunch of twats
Shame and embrassment seem to be a common trait for us British when dealing with our government.
Patel is not up to the task, she needs to go. A bully and a bigot. I never thought I’d see a child of refugees work so hard to hurt other refugees
Her parents must be so proud.
This is exactly the kind of shit that the British public were voting for after years of anti-immigration rhetoric in the press. Many of my friends have extremely warped views of immigration, assuming that even now it is just “filling in a few forms” and not taking enough interest in the subject to realise just how utterly frustrating the process has become, and how nigh on impossible it is for refugees.
But, given that the British public voted for this, it should be noted that perhaps at least with regards to Ukraine, the public opinion has shifted enough for the government to show at least a little compassion – something that I admit is unlikely with Priti Patel in charge of the Gestapo.
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> A visa centre being set up in northern France to assist Ukrainian refugees will not offer appointments or walk-in access, and its exact location will not be made public, the Home Office has confirmed.
Absolutely disgraceful and disgusting of them. I’m almost ashamed to be British if that’s how they are going to treat them
Priti Patel really is a huge festering piece of shit. A daughter of Indian immigrants who lived in and subsequently fled Uganda to escape the tyranny and racial hatred stoked by Idi Amin.
You’d think she’d have empathy. Her parents must be ashamed and disgusted.
The life in the UK test really needs some updating on British values about xenophobia and a lack of compassion towards refugees.
Since 2016, every day has seen a new way to feel a little more embarrassed and ashamed to be British. What a revolting little country we’ve become.
Why fucking not! We are Great Britain we must do better than this.
The pathetic amount of obstacles is not a bug, it’s a feature of a system designed to deter immigration in order to appease the right wing Tory base.
This crisis highlights it for sure, but believe me the whole immigration system is much the same.
Expensive, slow, and full of bad faith technical obstacles.
This breaks me. Watching the news yesterday, Ukrainians were planning their trips to Lille without knowing what was going to be there, but they’re that desperate they would take the trip anyway. I sincerely hope they didn’t travel all that way to find out that they wouldn’t release the address and not accept walk ins. As if this situation couldn’t get worse.
What’s the rationale here? Approach to Afghanistan and Hong Kong was much more open. Is it that we totally miscalculated the extent of the conflict and so ended up woefully underprepared? Or that they have some internal estimates in Home Office about how many could come? (Where Af/HK were never likely to be over 100,000?)
This uk government has outstayed its welcome. I was going to say they’ve served their purpose but they haven’t even done that. Funny how a country that was once synonymous with the word empire is afraid of letting people in
Can somebody explain to me the purpose of this centre, if it does not accept appointments? Like, genuinely, what does it do? And don’t say “nothing”, the people that go there to work every day must do *something* right?
I believe it’s still accurate to say, more people attended illegal parties in Downing St then have been offered sanctuary from the fighting in Ukraine.
I am sure this will soon no longer be true, and a few thousand will eventually be allowed in, but how can it be that EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN EUROPE has taken in magnitudes more already, openly and without hesitation, and yet we have dragged our feet and done next to nothing? Not only that, but we have raised concerns that others (Ireland) have been welcoming and helpful in this time of crisis. This is beyond inhumane.
Is it purely bigotry or is there some fear that we will offend the Russia money men if we do open up?
fuck this country man. and they ask why we want independence
Britain voted for Brexit based on largely anti immigration/xenophobic bullshit but somehow people are surprised when we don’t offer refuges easy asylum.
Say you won’t admit any refugees without saying you won’t admit any refugees.,
Unless I was mistaken watching the Brexit referendum and Tory political campaigns. It was very clear to me that foreigners == (bad && unwelcome) unless wealthy. To my disappointment both Tories and Brexit won.
Now you get the same people asking for refugees to be let in, like they did not vote for this.
Mad world we live in.
Brexit Britain is a disgrace.
Patel is incapable of getting anything right.
UK : Mouth off like the magnanimous Big Shot; in reality behave like a callous Grifter that’s swindled a frail OAP out of their life-savings.
The UK gov lying again just to get votes. Like they did with Brexit. £350 millions for the NHS if we leave…. 2 years later during the pandemic “clap on your doorstep like a seal because the NHS is snowed under and that money we promised isn’t being used”
I’m so fucking glad I left the UK after 25 years.
I’m finding this all so distressing and upsetting, I’m so ashamed of our country. Ukrainians didn’t even need a visa to visit the UK before, I don’t understand why they can’t come in and then have their eligibility assessed for this longer term stay visa once they’re here or scrap the visa altogether like Ireland has done. The current process is inhumane
Britain has become a xenophobic nation. Totally shameful. And it’s no surprise as it was probably the main driving force for Brexit. Sad thing is that like all the other broken Brexit promises, it will not help, as we still need nurses and doctors and truck drivers and fruit pickers, etc.
Why are you even bothering to pretend. Just admit you won’t be taking any Ukrainians.
The UK doesn’t miss an opportunity to show the world how much it fucking sucks.
So what is the point of this centre, to make us look good? It’s failed at that already!
Its plain to see that the Torys have already been bought with Putins rubels. Of course they aren’t going to let any Ukrainians into Britain because their boss says they’re not allowed in.
Absolutely disgusting country I call home.
These are innocent people, including children that are being bombed indiscriminately.
They are people just like us. Help them. Where they were born is absolutely irrelevant.
New new visa will require a letter of recommendation for Putin himself
I’m actually embarrassed to be British when I read stuff like this.
Patel has to go, even if it’s just for being un British.
For fucks sake.. what is wrong with this government? Bunch of twats
Shame and embrassment seem to be a common trait for us British when dealing with our government.
Patel is not up to the task, she needs to go. A bully and a bigot. I never thought I’d see a child of refugees work so hard to hurt other refugees
Her parents must be so proud.
This is exactly the kind of shit that the British public were voting for after years of anti-immigration rhetoric in the press. Many of my friends have extremely warped views of immigration, assuming that even now it is just “filling in a few forms” and not taking enough interest in the subject to realise just how utterly frustrating the process has become, and how nigh on impossible it is for refugees.
But, given that the British public voted for this, it should be noted that perhaps at least with regards to Ukraine, the public opinion has shifted enough for the government to show at least a little compassion – something that I admit is unlikely with Priti Patel in charge of the Gestapo.