Small boat migrants to the UK are 36% UP on this time last year.

Casdon

fancythat

Casdon

Yes, Kandinsky, it will happen. A pound to a penny that is part of the future plans to control entry to the UK.

So why has it not happened already?
It has been 6 years so far?

New government, new approach. I don’t think it will happen immediately, but it is inevitable, and will be accompanied by faster processing, and deportation for those who are not eligible.

A couple of months on...

You dont have to answer if you dont want to.

But do you think, with the new white paper, that it is still going to happen?
Apparently, small boat migration gets no mention in it?

escaped

Years ago a Breton woman asked me if I was from Paris.
It's a good job you could reply, no. The Bretons detest the Parisians! Especially in August.

I watched the movie LIMBO a while back. It's worth seeing if only to get some insight into the realities of life for asylum seekers into Britain, now.
A trailer:
youtu.be/zxaXGiKwPis?si=S444hmy139kHbs07

escaped

glasshalffullagain

Allira

Or Spanish?

I don't sense that there is a second language going on here.

My French friends tell me my French writing skills are technically better than theirs!
(That's because I use the subjunctive!!)
My written English is often dodgy, cos I write like I speak!

Years ago a Breton woman asked me if I was from Paris.

No, but my French teacher studied at The Sorbonne (how I longed to study there!).

Unfortunately, it's a case of use it or lose it.

glasshalffullagain

Allira

Or Spanish?

I don't sense that there is a second language going on here.

My French friends tell me my French writing skills are technically better than theirs!
(That's because I use the subjunctive!!)
My written English is often dodgy, cos I write like I speak!

Some people are fluent in more than one language, SueinEspana might have dual nationality too.

We don't know unless she let's us know.

Allira

Or Spanish?

I don't sense that there is a second language going on here.

Or Spanish?

Or an immigrant perhaps?

Sue, are you really in Espana? I suppose you must be an ex pat then, not an illegal?

Skydancer

SueinEspana

The Navy should patrol the Channel and turn the boats back. These immigrants have passed through several 'safe' countries before attempting to cross to the UK, but only Britain is stupid enough to give them bed, board and spending money!! I, for one, an absolutely sick if seeing these ILLEGAL immigrants wandering out streets. They are from a different culture with different values and will never integrate with us. Many are criminals running from their crimes in their homeland. Meanwhile, the UK taxpayers are funding them whilst many UK citizens are struggling!! These immigrants are not welcome, when will the Government get the message??

This.

No, not This at all.

You mu0isunderstand the rôle of our Royal Navy

Apart from the monstrous immorality of such actions, it would be asking sailors to contravene a foundational Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulation which requires mariners to come to the rescue of anyone in distress at sea. Participants could also be liable for prosecution under international law for crimes against humanity, not to mention making the UK a pariah state in the eyes of the world. No one serving in the navy wants to be involved in such actions and most would probably refuse to be involved.

www.navylookout.com/why-its-not-the-royal-navys-job-to-stop-migrant-boats/

SueinEspana

The Navy should patrol the Channel and turn the boats back. These immigrants have passed through several 'safe' countries before attempting to cross to the UK, but only Britain is stupid enough to give them bed, board and spending money!! I, for one, an absolutely sick if seeing these ILLEGAL immigrants wandering out streets. They are from a different culture with different values and will never integrate with us. Many are criminals running from their crimes in their homeland. Meanwhile, the UK taxpayers are funding them whilst many UK citizens are struggling!! These immigrants are not welcome, when will the Government get the message??

This.

My suggestion is that an efficient system is established as soon as is humanly possible. We managed a speedy response to the Ukrainian visitors, we can manage this. A huge investment in the HO woud be a start. Huge and the right calibre of person.

It does require the will to do things differently.
For what it's worth, I think the use of Hotels must be one of the worst ideas ever. Of course SERCO and the Hotel owners love the business.

GrannyGravy13

glasshalffullagain

Ah well if one man said that, they must all be the same I suppose.

"These illegals", classy.

What are your suggestions regarding stopping people drowning in the channel curtesy of the people trafficking gangs.

Have you an idea how these people could apply for asylum without risking their lives?

"Have you an idea how these people could apply for asylum without risking their lives?"

Thats a good question and I think everyone has said it would be a good idea for a very long time. Perhaps other countries wouldnt allow it? As in, who takes responsibility for those in a queue/waiting for processing? Just a guess.

glasshalffullagain

Ah well if one man said that, they must all be the same I suppose.

"These illegals", classy.

What are your suggestions regarding stopping people drowning in the channel curtesy of the people trafficking gangs.

Have you an idea how these people could apply for asylum without risking their lives?

Ah well if one man said that, they must all be the same I suppose.

"These illegals", classy.

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Wyllow3 I agree with you. Presumably the Rwanda plan looked good on paper, but seems to have been very poorly thought out. Numerous boats have been coming over since Brexit (now there's a coincidence) and for nearly 10 years no one seems to have come up with a workable plan. Meanwhile no one seems to be making much effort to process the immigrants who are here.

JenniferEccles

It’s certainly a harsh regime but the idea is for it to act as a deterrent, a warning to would- be illegal migrants that they are at risk of being sent there.

The Conservatives had the Rwanda plan which Labour immediately cancelled without even retaining it for a period to see if it worked.

As someone on here has already pointed out, it was starting to work as a number of illegal migrants headed for Ireland instead.

Maybe the Rwanda plan was crazy. Maybe it wouldn’t have worked but it was worth giving it a try.
The barge moored off Dorset was also abandoned so what do we have now?

Tens of thousands of young males turning up here are being housed in hotels at our expense.

It’s a farcical situation.

Our own Supreme Court ruled that Rwanda was not a safe place to be sent because of the conflicts there.
All that money wasted on the plans and not doing any processing becuase it would be 'the answer".

The Rwanda set up was for 50.000 people. It would have been swamped in no time and I dont believe it was a deterrent just because a small number headed for Ireland. The money wasted was absolutely shocking. the smuggling gangs would've known the 50.000 limit not to mention the asylum rule for the right to be assessed in the country of choice.

I do agree it's a really difficult one however.

However I believe that naming individual incidences of crime in the way done just above is just an attempt to "tar all with the same brush". We do have home grown murders, sadly.

glasshalffullagain

Primrose53

Visitors are so called because they are visiting. Holidaymakers are so called because they are coming on holiday. Weekenders are people coming just for a weekend.

Illegals are people coming here illegally. Doesn’t matter what nomenclature you use, that’s what they are.

Personally I have never come across " Weekender"

Illegal is vile and dehumanising. But then again some people don't regard others as human. Dangerous times.

Don’t be so touchy! I called them “people” so hardly dehumanising.

It wasn't you, FGT it was a comment to Primrose.
I should have said that.
Apologies.

I read a report recently about a Moraccan Asylum seeker murdering a local man in Hartlepool. Aside from that senseless murder, here is what I fail to understand. Morocco is surely not an unsafe country so why so many from there, also Algeria seeking asylum. These countries do not present the dangers to their citizens that either Syria or Afghanistan do, those landing here from safe countries are hindering the need, by blurring the lines between themselves and those fleeing for their lives. It's insane considering applications from safe havens they're clogging up the system.

Kirstie Allsopp too.

It’s certainly a harsh regime but the idea is for it to act as a deterrent, a warning to would- be illegal migrants that they are at risk of being sent there.

The Conservatives had the Rwanda plan which Labour immediately cancelled without even retaining it for a period to see if it worked.

As someone on here has already pointed out, it was starting to work as a number of illegal migrants headed for Ireland instead.

Maybe the Rwanda plan was crazy. Maybe it wouldn’t have worked but it was worth giving it a try.
The barge moored off Dorset was also abandoned so what do we have now?

Tens of thousands of young males turning up here are being housed in hotels at our expense.

It’s a farcical situation.