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Testing the water
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Kense | Report | 12 Mar 2023 17:18 |
It is an absolute myth that our benefit system is the big attraction. It is pathetic compared with the Scandinavian countries and Germany. The main reasons they want to come is because they have relations already here or because they know English. |
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Caroline | Report | 12 Mar 2023 16:46 |
Another question which I don't claim to have the answer to is so far how many people who have come across the channel illegally have gone on to commit a crime? I know from the press there have been some who are known criminals in their own countries. As JoyLouise says if they've nothing to hide and are genuine refugees why not stop in the first safe place and then look to move on to the UK or wherever? |
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JoyLouise | Report | 12 Mar 2023 16:03 |
We do have border control in France - two that I can think of. We also pay towards the French policing the border too. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 12 Mar 2023 15:34 |
And we don't have enough GPS and dentists for the population as it is without keep adding to the problem. OK maybe, just maybe among the people coming here there may be doctors, nurses dentists but I don't think they will be among the boat immigrants. Nobody is saying don't take any immigrants at all. What we don't want are the boatloads of people landing on our shores and fleeing into the countryside unaccounted for. Besides all the rescue services that have to save them from drowning. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 12 Mar 2023 15:05 |
I think it may have dawned on the BBC that each unasked-for politically biased comment is one more step to losing income from the TV licence. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 12 Mar 2023 14:56 |
Ah right, Caroline.....I couldn't understand why asylum seekers/refugees would travel through so many 'safe' countries but we're still insistent on getting to the UK :-0 |
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Caroline | Report | 12 Mar 2023 14:22 |
The UK is so attractive because of the benefit system amongst other things, and many believe the streets are literally paved with gold still. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 12 Mar 2023 13:29 |
When you look at the size of the UK and its population of around 67m and compare it with say France that has a similar size population but is 2.5 times the size, something has to give. With the best will in the world we cannot afford to continue allowing these people to illegally come into our country. They need to be deterred from making the treacherous journey across the channel. |
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Kense | Report | 12 Mar 2023 13:20 |
Why did the BBC initially say that no further action would be taken and the next day U-turned? Obviously because external pressure had been applied, presumably by some government department. |
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Caroline | Report | 12 Mar 2023 12:52 |
At the end of the day it has to be agreed by all that the UK can not carry on taking in so many people no matter where they've come from or for what reason they're coming. Saying as I believe he did that the UK isn't taking in as many people as other countries is too basic a comment. I have no idea how many people each country is taking in nor how well they can afford to do it. It is clear though that the UK can not carry on taking in anyone that wants to go there. To take in every one your taxes would keep on rising and your services for everyone would decrease it's not a bottomless pit. Yes it would be nice to be able to help everyone but in the real world..... |
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JoyLouise | Report | 12 Mar 2023 10:59 |
At our family get-together yesterday, some felt that Ian Wright was better than Lineker on MOTD, but sadly he has come out in sympathy with Lineker. |
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nameslessone | Report | 12 Mar 2023 10:48 |
I can’t find the report/ article I read yesterday. But it was about people in the Calais camp putting off their ‘journey’. One was referring to his British lawyer. How does he a,ready have one of those? |
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LondonBelle | Report | 12 Mar 2023 10:15 |
I thought the UK had taken in some Syrian refugees :-) |
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nameslessone | Report | 12 Mar 2023 09:58 |
I’ve not read the original speech so can’t comment on the |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 11 Mar 2023 16:23 |
I's certainly not fair to allow illegal immigrants into the country - but we should be allowing refugees into the country. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 11 Mar 2023 15:29 |
I should think our infrastructure would be closer to breaking point if we took more immigrants into this country than we can cope with. Without a decent and fair policy we would see an even heavier burden on our NHS, more homelessness, more calls on energy, water and schools. It is not fair to allow illegal immigrants coming in on small boats to jump the queue as others more needy will then suffer, including citizens and immigrants alike. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 11 Mar 2023 13:24 |
...and donating to the Tory Party, Kense! |
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Kense | Report | 11 Mar 2023 12:16 |
Strange that the BBC should worry about Gary Lineker compromising its supposed impartiality when the BBC Chairman was allegedly appointed after facilitating a loan for Boris Johnson. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 11 Mar 2023 10:25 |
I agree, we have enough homelessness and poverty - yet this Government can spend £7million a day keeping asylum seekers in hotels. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 11 Mar 2023 10:07 |
Although Gary didn't say Nazi in his Tweet that is obviously what he implied or else why not compare it to France, Belgium or come to that any other European country in the 1930s! |
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