Better weather = many more immigrants 822 yesterday

It’s not the souls on these rubber dinghies we need to be concerned about - it’s the criminal rings running it all that need addressing. They don’t care about desperation, they care about making big bucks - they are the ones that need tackling, and that’s no easy task. They’ll be involved with all undesirable activities - people trafficking, slavery, drugs, illegal transportation of immigrants and in and on …

On and on, that should say, not in and on.

I am in agreement and they need to stop these boats but at the end of the day you cannot blame the immigrants, blame the government for handing out benefits, free housing, food etc. The streets of London are not paved with gold but as long as these people are being handed out everything on a plate they will never stop coming. I bet if the government says, no more benefits, no more housing there would be no more boats.

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How can this be acceptable to post this?
Really?

I don't have the energy for a grilling but please the people in these boats are human beings. They are somebody's son, somebody's neice or nephew,, somebody's friend they went to school with.

Coming here why???

zakouma66

How can this be acceptable to post this?
Really?

I don't have the energy for a grilling but please the people in these boats are human beings. They are somebody's son, somebody's neice or nephew,, somebody's friend they went to school with.

So posting facts is wrong?

It’s on the news and in the papers.

Germanshepherdsmum

Coming here why???

Because after 14 years this government has failed in all its promises to stop it.

Same old trope. Check your facts about when immigration surged.

Good post zakouma. These are our fellow human beings who have been dealt such a dreadful hand in life that they are willing to risk their lives for freedom and safety. They are entitled to our compassion and as Ziplock says it is the criminal gangs who need to be prosecuted somehow.

They have freedom and safety in France.

Can I recommend a BBCiplayer documentary called FLEE which is about a young man escaping from Afghanistan. It might explain to some people how some of these people end up in those boats.

They could just get a flight to Mexico, Biden is just letting them enter to get votes!

Mt61

They could just get a flight to Mexico, Biden is just letting them enter to get votes!

We have loads here in Lancashire, seem to have appeared overnight!

Mt61

Mt61

They could just get a flight to Mexico, Biden is just letting them enter to get votes!

We have loads here in Lancashire, seem to have appeared overnight!

That's because they are spreading them all over the country in the hope we won't notice.

A dripping tap will eventually flood the house.

Greenfinch

Good post zakouma. These are our fellow human beings who have been dealt such a dreadful hand in life that they are willing to risk their lives for freedom and safety. They are entitled to our compassion and as Ziplock says it is the criminal gangs who need to be prosecuted somehow.

I don’t agree, not all of the countries are at war, what about Eastern Europeans? Apart from Ukraine… no just keep letting them in until we are packed in like sardines. We don’t have the extra money for new schools, can’t get Gp appointments, A & E full of these men last week (I left). Don’t believe labour will stop the boats & as for the tories they have pissed about & failed so Reform is getting my vote this time.

Absolutely

You are correct Chestnut
I do feel sorry for them, sure they are very nice people but I am being pragmatic/ we can’t cope with the influx- what’s going to happen down the line 15/20yrs time

Farage promises to stop the boats but doesn't say how he will do it. So what's the point in voting for him?

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Greenfinch Thought you might like to see the countries our fellow human beings are coming from. They have very helpfully put red pins in the map for you to see. So how many more do you think we can take, or do you think we have the space and infrastructure to accommodate people from every country in the world?

Wyllow3

Farage promises to stop the boats but doesn't say how he will do it. So what's the point in voting for him?

Oh they will for sure! Do you think Starmer is going to do anything or the greens? We need a strong opposition, just going to give them a chance. I started on the left until Blair let the first lot in & switched to the Tories who have done nothing, so have to believe farage to a certain extent will do something.

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I agree 100% with GSM.

My feelings towards these incomers are well known.

Been watching on Sky how the Greeks and the Mexican immigration people deal with them. We could learn some lessons there. We are too soft.