altus   514 #373 Posted July 21, 2021 23 minutes ago, butlers said: Mr Farage reporting on it now on GBNews.  I do believe the poor chap has caught the sun while bobbing about in the Channel, he's a frightful colour You're not comparing him to a non kosher/halal meat product are you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #374 Posted July 21, 2021 Never mind name calling and taking political sides . What is the answer to this problem ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister Gee   797 #375 Posted July 21, 2021 13 minutes ago, hackey lad said: Never mind name calling and taking political sides . What is the answer to this problem ? The balls in your court, you’ve got your Brexit and big majority Tory government, deal with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #376 Posted July 21, 2021 1 minute ago, Mister Gee said: The balls in your court, you’ve got your Brexit and big majority Tory government, deal with it. "taking political sides " .  Fell at the first hurdle . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister Gee   797 #377 Posted July 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, hackey lad said: "taking political sides " .  Fell at the first hurdle . Deal with it, it’s a problem of your own doing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #378 Posted July 21, 2021 Just now, Mister Gee said: Deal with it, it’s a problem of your own doing. Why is it ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Thirsty Relic   202 #379 Posted July 22, 2021 If we are talking refugees from conflict, then I thought the first country outside the conflict they are escaping from that they came to were meant to shelter them until they could return home. What seems to be happening is that England is the "destination of choice" for those who have no choice, and other countries just pass them on and help them to get to England.  If we could somehow change this perception, then refugees would not want to settle in England, and prefer other countries. Instead of hearing about our benefits system, free housing etc etc, couldn't we somehow let them know about the racism, homelessness, knife crime, squalid conditions in the little remaining council housing, deprivation and so on. Perhaps also do something about refugees sending money back home so that more could pay human traffickers to get the rest of their families to try the Channel Crossing.  Sending home the details of people who perished in the Channel, or suffocated in lorries they used to get them to our soil would let people know the risks involved in attempting to get to the UK, as well as letting them know the fate of their loved ones. The ones who make it seem to get word back about how good it its - at least let them know many simply don't make it, and would have been better off choosing a European country. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99 Â Â 771 #380 Posted July 22, 2021 It was stated last year by a UN envoy that 70% of those crossing the Mediterranean from places like Libya ARE solely, economic migrants. Â Â Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
The Joker   10 #381 Posted July 22, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Baron99 said: It was stated last year by a UN envoy that 70% of those crossing the Mediterranean from places like Libya ARE solely, economic migrants.   Libya? Yeah, it's not like there's a civil war that's been going for several years, is there?  4 hours ago, Thirsty Relic said: If we could somehow change this perception, then refugees would not want to settle in England, and prefer other countries. Instead of hearing about our benefits system, free housing etc etc, couldn't we somehow let them know about the racism, homelessness, knife crime, squalid conditions in the little remaining council housing, deprivation and so on. Perhaps also do something about refugees sending money back home so that more could pay human traffickers to get the rest of their families to try the Channel Crossing. So you want to go around the world telling people what a nasty, racist, horrible place England is to live?  Got it.  I can't see the right-whingers having a problem with that, can you?  There's probably a downside I don't see, but if there is, I'm sure somebody will point it out to me. Edited July 22, 2021 by The Joker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Delayed   461 #382 Posted July 22, 2021 9 hours ago, Mister Gee said: Deal with it, it’s a problem of your own doing. Just as an FYI, migrants arriving on small boats has been an issue for at least a decade and did not suddenly happen once Brexit occured and/or when the Tories entered power.   This has been an issue for government's in the past which has never been fully resolved. It's just that the media are reporting upon it more to stir up outrage on both sides of the argument.   Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99   771 #383 Posted July 22, 2021 53 minutes ago, The Joker said: Libya? Yeah, it's not like there's a civil war that's been going for several years, is there? And the UN envoy stated that 70% of migrants crossing from places like Libya ARE economic migrants.   Well that's the problem with giving money to people traffickers, as the vast majority are economic migrants they end up dropping you off in war torn areas for months on end.  Better to go through the proper channels. Oh but of course, the majority being economic migrants are not from war torn countries & places where they are suffering any persecution, they wouldn't be ineligible to go through the proper channels.  Maybe if they get as far as places like Libya, they feel entitled to say they have come from a war torn country? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
The Joker   10 #384 Posted July 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, West 77 said: There was clear evidence on more than one of the News channels yesterday that the French Navy are following these boats until they leave French waters and enter UK waters. Therefore it's absolutely ludicrous for the UK government to be giving the French government any money.  The big problem is the UK signed up to an international refugee agreement many years ago meaning once these people enter UK waters the UK government is obliged to accommodate them. However the majority of these people are not refugees but are economic migrants. The French government simply can't be trusted to prevent the migrants leaving their shores or their waters. Drones can't be used to spot the people early because they are against French law to use them for this purpose. The UK needs to withdraw from the international refugee agreement and follow the Australian approach such as towing these people on the boats back to where they came from which is France as well as taking other measures. Capitalism depands cheap labour to keep wages and inflation low.  Now that our democratic nation voted democratically in a referendum to democratically leave the EU, and we're sending all the EU migrants back, there are thousands of lowpaid, unskilled jobs that need filling, such as hand carwashers, and fruit pickers.  And since no proud, self-respecting, democracy-loving Englishman like me is willing to wake up early in the morning to pick fruit or wash cars by hand, we need slave labour economic migrants to work for a small wage to fill these menial vacancies that offer no job security whatsoever. Otherwise, the only alternative is to make fruit picking jobs more appealing to a proud, self-respecting, democracy-loving Englishman like me by increasing the minimum wage substantially, and the Capitalists certainly don't want to do that,  So as proud, self-respecting, democracy-loving Englishman*, you have a choice: (1) increase the minimum wage substantially or (2) turn a blind eye to these refugees / economic migrants arriving on our shores.  Which is it to be?  *I know you're actually a Russian stooge, but play along with me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...