If Peppa Pig is now the symbol of global Britain, what have you got to lose Mr Farage?

JenniferEccles

I have said before that one possible solution to the immigration crisis is to make it clear that those turning up on our shores illegally will automatically have their asylum application rejected

The idea is to break the business model of the people smugglers, which of course is a very lucrative enterprise for them.

Once the message gets through that it’s hopeless trying, the numbers will drop.

It’s always worth repeating that these migrants have already travelled through several perfectly safe European countries before reaching here, so their claims of escaping war and persecution somehow don’t ring true.

Apologies if I got the date of the failed asylum claim wrong.
There is one though who is still here from 2008.

You mean break international law?

I thought the UK was trying to be seen as a respected country globally.

Flat screen TVs and top of the range mobile phones, I believe, growstuff

What else do they get in this so-called endless list?

Maudi

The so called asylum seekers get £39.64 x 7 = £277.41 per week (this is more than Oaps basic state pension which we have paid tax and insurance contributions for years) each and for each family member and somewhere to live even if their asylum application is refused, they still get the money and somewhere to live. So that is something that needs to be changed. Also they get free healthcare and dental treatment when people (me included because I have recently moved can't find an NHS dentist) the list is endless. So Boris and Pritti Patel instead of all the soundbites about what you are going to do about this crisis and the dinghies full of fit young men, do something to stop them otherwise you have lost my vote.

How do you work that out?

They get £39.63 a WEEK.

MaizieD I have no idea why you would think a picture of Nigel Farage is offensive just because you don’t like him.
I have never liked Jeremy Corbyn but I am not silly enough to complain if anyone should happen to post a picture of him!

The so called asylum seekers get £39.64 x 7 = £277.41 per week (this is more than Oaps basic state pension which we have paid tax and insurance contributions for years) each and for each family member and somewhere to live even if their asylum application is refused, they still get the money and somewhere to live. So that is something that needs to be changed. Also they get free healthcare and dental treatment when people (me included because I have recently moved can't find an NHS dentist) the list is endless. So Boris and Pritti Patel instead of all the soundbites about what you are going to do about this crisis and the dinghies full of fit young men, do something to stop them otherwise you have lost my vote.

Well Maisie, as said on another thread- there is a picture all over social media- just as predicted. The one with Merkel and Macron splitting sides with laughter, and the caption '... and then he talked about Peppa Pig... to the CBI'

It is now widely predicted that it was all planned- to divert attention to the destruction of the NHS being voted for by Tories in front of our very eyes.

This is what it looks like when I open this thread on my screen.

Remember Kilroy woz 'ere?

Best ignore my news threads then MaizieD as I like this format. I’m sticking with it as I find a photograph enhances the topic under discussion. We shall just have to agree to disagree. Personal choice.
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Nigel and Boris are like Marmite you love it or hate it. Nigel certainly gets people talking. I hope he teams up with Richard Tice and The Reform Party.

Josianne

No comment on the subject,
But I do quite like pictures with the text. Adds a bit of colour and interest.

I grew out of picture books about 60 years ago. I can cope with unillustrated discussion. Especially when the picture is offensive (and probably meant to be)

Indeed. But they voted to get rid of them!

I’m a big fan of legal immigration. Come here, work and pay your taxes.

As workers from the EU were doing.

I have said before that one possible solution to the immigration crisis is to make it clear that those turning up on our shores illegally will automatically have their asylum application rejected

The idea is to break the business model of the people smugglers, which of course is a very lucrative enterprise for them.

Once the message gets through that it’s hopeless trying, the numbers will drop.

It’s always worth repeating that these migrants have already travelled through several perfectly safe European countries before reaching here, so their claims of escaping war and persecution somehow don’t ring true.

Apologies if I got the date of the failed asylum claim wrong.
There is one though who is still here from 2008.

Some great points there Urmstongran. Completely agree with you. ???

I’m a big fan of legal immigration. Come here, work and pay your taxes.
That’s great. You are very welcome.

But arrive over here in a rubber dinghy with no papers after paying a people trafficker? Nope.

Riverwalk

Josianne

No comment on the subject,
But I do quite like pictures with the text. Adds a bit of colour and interest.

Please don't go putting him on our pictures thread!

Certainly not!
That's the beauty of that thread, unspoilt by people pictures!

Like Raab, some of you need to have a better grasp of the realities of Geography.

Urmstongran

Change our laws? Or at least alter the terms and conditions we currently offer.

Changing Laws will not make any difference!

Lemon, they were coming in 'droves' did you say? Has Brexit helped, or made it 'worse'.

Soon you will be repeating that Brexit had nothing to do with immigration, and you will expect us to believe you!

Josianne

No comment on the subject,
But I do quite like pictures with the text. Adds a bit of colour and interest.

Please don't go putting him on our pictures thread!

Sago

We are feeding, clothing, educating and homing an army, a lot of these men mean us harm.

I am with Nigel on this one.

And what is Nigel's solution?

No comment on the subject,
But I do quite like pictures with the text. Adds a bit of colour and interest.

Oh me too Maizie.

I do wish that Ug hadn't felt the need to illustrate her OP. The sight of the subject gurning at me every time I open the thread makes me feel quite ill...

and it's not as if we're children who need pictures to go with the text

vegansrock

Trouble is Brexit has made this situation worse. It was won on a promise to take control of our borders, even though more migrants came here from non EU countries than EU ones and little had been done to control this. France actually takes more asylum seekers than the U.K. as does Germany and Sweden , so the idea they are “all coming here” is erroneous. Brexit broke all existing controls so no reason to expect EU countries to stop any asylum seekers from travelling to the U.K. and the idea that any country can patrol 100s of miles of coastline day and night is ridiculous. Personnel had been cut from all areas of public service, so no hope of swift processing of asylum claims, meanwhile no ID system means it’s much easier to work illegally in the U.K. The expectation that a Tory government , who have slashed spending on everything over the past 10 years, will suddenly find an efficient and workable answer to this problem is a joke, which like the PMs jokes, is not funny.

Good post