So Priti Patel has given the French another huge chunk of UK Tax Payers money (£54m) to do a job that they should already be doing and that we shouldn't be paying for.
When is this going to turn from being a polite request for these people not to come to the UK, unless formally applying for political asylum by arriving by air, and we get the Royal Navy to forcibly intercept and tow all boats back to where they came from whether that's France, Belgium or Holland ?
After several warnings not to come, the Australians did it with Indonesian migrants in 2012, and faced international condemnation when they got their own navy to tow all boats back to Indonesia, but frankly who cares ? It did the trick.
This country is not a free for all, and I don't pay my taxes to house, clothe and feed people who are not refugees but who are economic migrants, who can afford the £10k crossing fare for the English Channel, and who all seem to be in possession of mobile phones. A genuine refugee has no money or possessions and is fleeing persecution, not seeking a cosy existence. Didn't we vote for Brexit to control our own borders, and on our terms ?
Since the year 2000, the population of the UK has risen by over 9m people, and over 80% of that increase is due to immigration/migration, some legal, some illegal. That's basically the population of greater London as 'extras' in 21 years !!
So because of this we have to build more houses, dig up more greenfield and brownfield sites, endure far more crowded roads, shops, public transport, put up with increased waiting times for council and medical services etc because the whole country is over populated already, and at 8,000 new and illegal arrivals per month of migrants it's going to get worse and worse and worse, unless someone in government gets a proper handle on it. The French must be laughing out loud at us. We look pathetic.
I'd like to point out that I am not against genuine refugees, or unaccompanied children being offered safety here, but swarms of fit, healthy young men (and where are the majority of their women and children btw?) smiling and knowing they've beaten the system when they arrive on a Kent beach really pisses me off. The French navy who escort these boats into British waters are also absurd and they need a good kick in the shins to remind them of it.
According to international law, genuine refugees can seek political asylum in the first safe country they land in. Therefore if they've come across the Med to Spain, Italy, or Greece than those countries should be handling these people or sending them back. And bear in mind that there are a multitude of countries between the med and the coast of Normandy that these people could ask for shelter in. But they don't, because they've heard it's far easier to come here.
That's even assuming they've come from war torn countries like Afghanistan or Syria. But a lot of the migrants we see are coming from west and north Africa.
I'm sick of the Government not doing anything like enough to sort this situation out once and for all, and even more so hearing the likes of Amnesty saying we must do our duty as a nation. No we don't. We've done 9m worth of duty over the last 21 years and plenty before that too.
Enough !!
When is this going to turn from being a polite request for these people not to come to the UK, unless formally applying for political asylum by arriving by air, and we get the Royal Navy to forcibly intercept and tow all boats back to where they came from whether that's France, Belgium or Holland ?
After several warnings not to come, the Australians did it with Indonesian migrants in 2012, and faced international condemnation when they got their own navy to tow all boats back to Indonesia, but frankly who cares ? It did the trick.
This country is not a free for all, and I don't pay my taxes to house, clothe and feed people who are not refugees but who are economic migrants, who can afford the £10k crossing fare for the English Channel, and who all seem to be in possession of mobile phones. A genuine refugee has no money or possessions and is fleeing persecution, not seeking a cosy existence. Didn't we vote for Brexit to control our own borders, and on our terms ?
Since the year 2000, the population of the UK has risen by over 9m people, and over 80% of that increase is due to immigration/migration, some legal, some illegal. That's basically the population of greater London as 'extras' in 21 years !!
So because of this we have to build more houses, dig up more greenfield and brownfield sites, endure far more crowded roads, shops, public transport, put up with increased waiting times for council and medical services etc because the whole country is over populated already, and at 8,000 new and illegal arrivals per month of migrants it's going to get worse and worse and worse, unless someone in government gets a proper handle on it. The French must be laughing out loud at us. We look pathetic.
I'd like to point out that I am not against genuine refugees, or unaccompanied children being offered safety here, but swarms of fit, healthy young men (and where are the majority of their women and children btw?) smiling and knowing they've beaten the system when they arrive on a Kent beach really pisses me off. The French navy who escort these boats into British waters are also absurd and they need a good kick in the shins to remind them of it.
According to international law, genuine refugees can seek political asylum in the first safe country they land in. Therefore if they've come across the Med to Spain, Italy, or Greece than those countries should be handling these people or sending them back. And bear in mind that there are a multitude of countries between the med and the coast of Normandy that these people could ask for shelter in. But they don't, because they've heard it's far easier to come here.
That's even assuming they've come from war torn countries like Afghanistan or Syria. But a lot of the migrants we see are coming from west and north Africa.
I'm sick of the Government not doing anything like enough to sort this situation out once and for all, and even more so hearing the likes of Amnesty saying we must do our duty as a nation. No we don't. We've done 9m worth of duty over the last 21 years and plenty before that too.
Enough !!
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