Many right wingers complain that the UK is the most densely populated country in Europe.
But as a landlord who is struggling to raise rents I welcome these people fleeing persecution.
I’d like to know Sunak’s personal stance on this subject.
Is he pushing the new law to discourage channel crossings because he genuinely believes it’s the right thing to do? Or is he doing it because he thinks it’s what the electorate want?
I’m of the mind lately that we should just let whoever wants to come to the UK, stay in the UK. We’ve never tried it before and it’s what many have been wanting for a long time.
Whether they’re fleeing war or just wanting to make a better life for themselves. What does it matter. I understand there’ll be a few criminals amongst them but they’ll be found out eventually and we have our fair share of homegrown criminals anyway.
I love the idea that people smugglers give a shit about any laws our government pass. Or that anyone travelling across the Channel in a dingy is well versed in UK legislation.
Amazing what happens when you remove their ability to cross safely.
> The committee said demand had not substantially increased, pointing out that there were 48,450 asylum applications in 2021, “a number broadly similar to those in each year from 2014…far less than in the early 2000s”.
> Instead, MPs found that increasing pressures on the system were a result of the “poor resourcing, by successive governments, of staff and technology in the Asylum Operations function in the Home Office”. As a result, the backlog in asylum cases that are ‘work in progress’ has grown to 117,000 in June, more than double what it was in 2014.
> Pressure is mounting on Ben Bradley to apologise for a Twitter tirade in which the Conservative MP was accused of linking free school meals with “crack dens” and “brothels”.
They’re only trying to distract you with the relatively small numbers coming across the channel in the hopes that you don’t realise the net half a million coming here legally every year.
No laws will make it go away, open up safe routes and people will stop crossing the channel, but that will take away the rage Tory/reform propaganda and stop people wanting to leave the echr and making us a pariah state.
It’s really weird that GB News forgot to mention that most of the people crossing the channel have their asylum claims accepted, proving that they’re refugees who are escaping danger and persecution.
You’d think that they’d want to mention that so that they don’t accidentally mislead their readers and viewers, some of whom don’t realise that they’re refugees.
Why would the Conservatives actually do something to stop immigration, when promising to crack down on immigration is such a vote winner for them?
You can’t offer to crack down on something you’ve already stopped, hence the promise to crack down on immigration every time a general election is getting near (but actually doing fuck all about it).
Surely anyone desperate enough to move *to* the UK needs all the help they can get?
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Many right wingers complain that the UK is the most densely populated country in Europe.
But as a landlord who is struggling to raise rents I welcome these people fleeing persecution.
I’d like to know Sunak’s personal stance on this subject.
Is he pushing the new law to discourage channel crossings because he genuinely believes it’s the right thing to do? Or is he doing it because he thinks it’s what the electorate want?
I’m of the mind lately that we should just let whoever wants to come to the UK, stay in the UK. We’ve never tried it before and it’s what many have been wanting for a long time.
Whether they’re fleeing war or just wanting to make a better life for themselves. What does it matter. I understand there’ll be a few criminals amongst them but they’ll be found out eventually and we have our fair share of homegrown criminals anyway.
I love the idea that people smugglers give a shit about any laws our government pass. Or that anyone travelling across the Channel in a dingy is well versed in UK legislation.
Amazing what happens when you remove their ability to cross safely.
They opt for dangerous alternatives.
The Conservatives have been[ actively manufacturing an “asylum crisis”](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/suella-braverman-home-affairs-committee-channel-asylum-crisis/) for years by allowing a backlog of cases to develop, refusing to develop legal routes for seeking asylum; and refusing to set up a processing centre in France.
> The committee said demand had not substantially increased, pointing out that there were 48,450 asylum applications in 2021, “a number broadly similar to those in each year from 2014…far less than in the early 2000s”.
> Instead, MPs found that increasing pressures on the system were a result of the “poor resourcing, by successive governments, of staff and technology in the Asylum Operations function in the Home Office”. As a result, the backlog in asylum cases that are ‘work in progress’ has grown to 117,000 in June, more than double what it was in 2014.
“We must prioritise spending on own people first”, they cry. Until someone tries to do that, at which point its [all of a sudden](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/24/ben-bradley-under-pressure-to-apologise-over-free-school-meals-tweets):
> Pressure is mounting on Ben Bradley to apologise for a Twitter tirade in which the Conservative MP was accused of linking free school meals with “crack dens” and “brothels”.
They’re only trying to distract you with the relatively small numbers coming across the channel in the hopes that you don’t realise the net half a million coming here legally every year.
No laws will make it go away, open up safe routes and people will stop crossing the channel, but that will take away the rage Tory/reform propaganda and stop people wanting to leave the echr and making us a pariah state.
It’s really weird that GB News forgot to mention that most of the people crossing the channel have their asylum claims accepted, proving that they’re refugees who are escaping danger and persecution.
You’d think that they’d want to mention that so that they don’t accidentally mislead their readers and viewers, some of whom don’t realise that they’re refugees.
Especially since GB News are [in the news today](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/06/gb-news-broke-ofcom-rules-presenter-covid-vaccine-claims-mark-steyn) because they mislead their viewers by airing antivax propaganda. You’d think that this would mean that they’d be even more careful not to mislead their viewers today in particular!
Why would the Conservatives actually do something to stop immigration, when promising to crack down on immigration is such a vote winner for them?
You can’t offer to crack down on something you’ve already stopped, hence the promise to crack down on immigration every time a general election is getting near (but actually doing fuck all about it).
Surely anyone desperate enough to move *to* the UK needs all the help they can get?