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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
I’ve answered the question twice and it’s a stupid question. There isn’t a limitless number of people trying to come here. We have a chronic labour shortage and rapidly ageing population, exacerbated by a hostile attitude towards the poor ****s who do the **** jobs we won’t do.

Ah ok, sorry I haven’t got your obvious intelligence Bracknell…..my bad. I personally feel your desire for open borders is, as Bob put it, unsustainable. Obviously you know better
 
Proximity is obviously a factor. Poland have taken in over a million and we've taken a few hundred, whilst promising to take 'hundreds of thousands'. As I've said though, it's what people voted for in 2016 and 2019, so the government's only doing what the public wanted.
The majority of people did vote brexit for immigration reasons. People can deny that but its what quickly and obviously became apparant to me. To me an immigrant to this country is someone who comes over, works for a better life, pays into the system etc etc. A refugee comes with literally nothing and the state/us has to pay for them. I dont deny them this and i would hate to find myself in that position of having to flee for my life or families life. But what do you cap a number at? How many can we possibly take in when we have poverty at unbelievable levels? Theres a waiting list of years for council properties in the uk. Food banks have become an everyday part of life for even the working class! The economy will also take a hit shortly due to the cost of living as nobody will have any spare ****ing money to spend. My point is this, we cant even get our own house in ****ing order, what with a corrupt as **** government.
 
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The majority of people did vote brexit for immigration reasons. People can deny that but its what quickly and obviously became apparant to me. To me an immigrant to this country is someone who comes over, works for a better life, pays into the system etc etc. A refugee comes with literally nothing and the state/us has to pay for them. I dont deny them this and i would hate to find myself in that position of having to flee for my life or families life. But what do you cap a number at? How many can we possibly take in when we have poverty at unbelievable levels? Theres a waiting list of years for council properties in the uk. Food banks have become an everyday part of life for even the working class! The economy will also take a hit shortly due to the cost of living as nobody will have any spare ****ing money to spend. My point is this, we cant even get our own house in ****ing order, what with a corrupt as **** government.

It shouldn't be either or, Bob. There's enough wealth in this country to deal with poverty at home as well as helping those fleeing terror,
 
Ah ok…..Back to the “everyone who voted Brexit is a racist” bollox…..**** me mate…I’m meant to be the stupid one ?
I dont honestly believe that staines, never have but i would say %95 of the people i know voted for brexit due to immigration. Doesnt make them racist, there was a lot of frustration hyped by an agenda driven media, there was also a lot of thick ****s who didnt know anything but the headline on the 'Sun'.
 
It shouldn't be either or, Bob. There's enough wealth in this country to deal with poverty at home as well as helping those fleeing terror,
I dont disagree with you but we are in no way set up to cope with such a situation. Its ok promising billions of pounds somewhere but realisticly, how do you house, feed, clothe and pay for hundreds of thousands of people when over 4 million cant do that who have lived here all their life! As Staines said, theres no infrastructure, no plan nothing but numbers.
 
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We should take our fair share of refugees from all conflicts. This one's relatively close to home, though.

Pulling up the drawbridge isn't right, but then it's only 'taking back control' isn't it?

We've opened ourselves up to a potential 5 million plus from Hong Kong. Not an issue for the EU.

We will take our share of Ukranians. It's been slow due to the Home Office not being fit for purpose for decades. But security checks are vital.
 
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The simple fact is this country has let in too many over the past decade or so without a clear remit on how many should've come in. The housing crisis is in a diabolical state and housing refugees before homeless English people is opening up a can of worms. I help out at Shelter twice a month and the numbers are escalating all the time, it's heartbreaking. To let refugees in without proper vetting and opening yourself up to possible murderers , rapists , terrorists and god knows what doesn't bear thinking about. Yes these people need urgent help and the government needs to do more and more quickly but certain steps have to be taken for safety of everyone living in this country !

Good post.
 
I take it that “Pearl Clutchers” are female gammons or suchlike. Poor old Bracknell seems incapable of making any point without some form of abuse these days. Thankfully, I don’t need to resort to that sort of tactic like that silly ****. :)
 
I take it that “Pearl Clutchers” are female gammons or suchlike. Poor old Bracknell seems incapable of making any point without some form of abuse these days. Thankfully, I don’t need to resort to that sort of tactic like that silly ****. :)

12 years of Tory rule will do that. ****ing ****s should be whipped in the streets.
 
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