“Migrants are more important than residents" A statement that the Labour party will live to regret?

Is this what we want our country to become?

youtu.be/KolIaihzqrI?si=H6mXUduR1Gp2hkTC

Casdon why let facts get in the way of a good immigration bashing thread.

Primrose53

MayBee70

It was the Conservative party that started housing migrants in hotels. Labour have said they will stop doing so but it can’t happen overnight. Yet another click bait heading that gransnet are happy to allow.

Labour pledged that they would close the migrant hotels alright. Now they’ve insisted this hotel is kept open. Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

FullFact for you Primrose53.
fullfact.org/government-tracker/asylum-hotels/

LizzieDrip

The country is not ‘being flooded’, despite what the media, Tories and Reform would have you believe.

Those seeking asylum via ‘irregular’ routes (because there are no ‘regular’ routes) make up a tiny minority of the immigrants in this, upon whom we depend.

Thank God for the Human Rights lawyers who tried to maintain the dignity of this country by supporting those fleeing war and oppression. We used to be a country that offered sanctuary to those in need.

I realise my view is unpopular on GN - I’m fine with that.

I’m with you LizzieD.

Primrose53

MayBee70

It was the Conservative party that started housing migrants in hotels. Labour have said they will stop doing so but it can’t happen overnight. Yet another click bait heading that gransnet are happy to allow.

Labour pledged that they would close the migrant hotels alright. Now they’ve insisted this hotel is kept open. Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

They didn’t say they would close them with immediate effect though. So I don’t quite see what point you’re trying to make.

'In court they said the right of illegal migrants to free hotels is more important than the rights of the British people.

Said lawyers used by the Government.

Alledgedly.

MayBee70

It was the Conservative party that started housing migrants in hotels. Labour have said they will stop doing so but it can’t happen overnight. Yet another click bait heading that gransnet are happy to allow.

Labour pledged that they would close the migrant hotels alright. Now they’ve insisted this hotel is kept open. Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well, if you are not concerned about thousands of unidentified illegal migrants flooding into this country then you should be.
The most serious aspect is, Who is going to pay for it?

Don't think once these people are processed, (speedily so even less is known about them), and able to earn they will boost the economy.
Their small wages will be split between paying off the gang masters who brought them here and will employ them, and keeping their family in their home countries.

That’s read the full thread in case you wondered LizzieDrip

LizzieDrip

Oreo

It’s not gleeful Maybee70 not at all, it’s with a real sense of foreboding and worry.

About what?

RTFT

MayBee70

woodenspoon

MayBee70

It was the Conservative party that started housing migrants in hotels. Labour have said they will stop doing so but it can’t happen overnight. Yet another click bait heading that gransnet are happy to allow.

Hardly a click bait headline if the OP is reporting what was said in open court, surely.

“The need to meet the human rights of asylum seekers by housing them in hotels outweighs safety concerns of local families, the Home Office has told the Court of Appeal”.
It referred to safety concerns, it didn’t say migrants lives are ‘more important’. Imo the words were twisted to give a different more incendiary meaning.

That is even worse.

Surely?

The only people who have been reported saying anything like this are Philps and Farage. Well, they would, wouldn't they? MRDA.

We all know that Jenrick introduced the hotel scheme in 2022 in response to the increasing number of irregular migrants after legal routes to claim asylum disappeared as a result of Brexit. It's rich when the very people and parties who caused this situation feign outrage.

The usual misinformation from this poster done deliberately to stir up an argument. Someone should should have run a book on how long it would take before the judges' decision was made public and she started this thread.

Tiresome and totally predicatable.

Oreo

It’s not gleeful Maybee70 not at all, it’s with a real sense of foreboding and worry.

About what?

Please WHO said:

“Keir Starmer's Labour government thinks the rights of illegal immigrants are more important than the rights of local people”.

MayBee70

Some of you are just gleefully stirring up the unrest perpetrated by Farage. Why?

Nobody is gleefully stirring up anything. What a very odd take on a much publicised court case where the ramifications affect British citizens who pay their taxes to support these migrants. Billions every year spent on them.

Yesterday, near Heathrow airport, they were advertising for tutors to teach these migrants floristry skills, balloon making etc. the sheer lunacy of this government department in allowing this and advertising it. They treat us all with utter contempt. Only when it became known in the press were they told to take these ads down.

Maremia

How many posters on this thread believe that the best people to protect 'our women and girls' are those bussed-in rent a mob thugs, many of whom have form for domestic violence?

No one with any sense

Perhaps taken out of context or has to be read along with the rest of the statement?

In my humble opinion, all citizens or visitors, ie human beings, are all as important as each other, but some have more urgent needs.

It’s not gleeful Maybee70 not at all, it’s with a real sense of foreboding and worry.

Only the same as ‘some people’ are playing it down.

Some of you are just gleefully stirring up the unrest perpetrated by Farage. Why?

Local families = residents

Local people =residents

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I think so.
It was their appeal statement in Court. To overturn the previous decision about housing migrants in that hotel in Epping it was their salvo.

Well I think it’s just put a nail in their coffin.

What do you think?

It’s as if Starmer is so fed up with the job of PM that he’s giving a helping hand to Farage.
More important than residents!

LizzieDrip

FriedGreenTomatoes2

They actually said it.
“Keir Starmer's Labour government thinks the rights of illegal immigrants are more important than the rights of local people”.

Who said it?

Who indeed? I'm another who would like to see the source of this 'quote'

Those words are clearly opinion - and opinion from someone who sees the world in that way, not someone who is even pretending to be objective.

It is not a zero sum game. Both groups have rights, and one is not taking from the other.

MayBee70

woodenspoon

MayBee70

It was the Conservative party that started housing migrants in hotels. Labour have said they will stop doing so but it can’t happen overnight. Yet another click bait heading that gransnet are happy to allow.

Hardly a click bait headline if the OP is reporting what was said in open court, surely.

“The need to meet the human rights of asylum seekers by housing them in hotels outweighs safety concerns of local families, the Home Office has told the Court of Appeal”.
It referred to safety concerns, it didn’t say migrants lives are ‘more important’. Imo the words were twisted to give a different more incendiary meaning.

Yes