Boats this month…

Primrose53

eazybee

!.000 illegal migrants arrived this weekend.

Do you mean 1,000 eazybee?

Madness isn’t it? They are arriving at 2 and 3 in the morning now! Wait until we see what the total is today.

This figure is not correct. 287 arrived on Saturday, and 231 arrived yesterday according to the government website, which was updated this morning. We don’t know how many there will be for today until tomorrow, assuming we are counting today as part of the weekend because it’s a bank holiday?

Casdon

Primrose53

eazybee

!.000 illegal migrants arrived this weekend.

Do you mean 1,000 eazybee?

Madness isn’t it? They are arriving at 2 and 3 in the morning now! Wait until we see what the total is today.

This figure is not correct. 287 arrived on Saturday, and 231 arrived yesterday according to the government website, which was updated this morning. We don’t know how many there will be for today until tomorrow, assuming we are counting today as part of the weekend because it’s a bank holiday?

Plus the 394 that arrived Friday so well on the way to 1000
Quite honestly this is getting beyond ridiculous.
Many people are concerned and I can see their point most of these are young men not families and children.
Apart from France people are using small boats from Belgium

Chestnut

I'm shocked that people seem to think we are obliged to keep taking in more and more people from all over the world. When will it end?

Again, we have 70 million people here already and do not need any more. We have plenty of young people in the NEET group. Living on benefits should not be a choice, the choice should be education, employment or training, and if they are physically fit and don't know what else to do then a year of military service. Those young people need to be doing something. Encourage them to earn a living by doing the jobs that need doing. But don't give them the choice of doing nothing.

Couldn’t agree more….👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 All

rosie1959

Casdon

Primrose53

eazybee

!.000 illegal migrants arrived this weekend.

Do you mean 1,000 eazybee?

Madness isn’t it? They are arriving at 2 and 3 in the morning now! Wait until we see what the total is today.

This figure is not correct. 287 arrived on Saturday, and 231 arrived yesterday according to the government website, which was updated this morning. We don’t know how many there will be for today until tomorrow, assuming we are counting today as part of the weekend because it’s a bank holiday?

Plus the 394 that arrived Friday so well on the way to 1000
Quite honestly this is getting beyond ridiculous.
Many people are concerned and I can see their point most of these are young men not families and children.
Apart from France people are using small boats from Belgium

But why do people post inaccurate information Rosie51? A weekend is Saturday and Sunday! Gransnet is not a tabloid, when we aren’t stupid enough to swallow things we know aren’t true?

As I said way earlier in the thread, we will not know how this month compares to May last year until the figures are produced at the beginning of June. That’s the point at which to exercise the muscles if there has been no improvement.

You’re really splitting hairs now Casdon it’s called a Bank Holiday Weekend.

Oreo

You’re really splitting hairs now Casdon it’s called a Bank Holiday Weekend.

Exactly 🙄

The bank holiday weekend runs from Saturday to Monday, as I said earlier in the thread. Friday was a working day. No hairs split, just accuracy, which you know I expect. I can’t be doing with inaccurate sensationalisation of information.

Of course it would be more accurate to state that nearly 1,000 illegal migrants have arrived in the last three days, but why be so pedantic? When people are genuinely concerned about so many undocumented young men arriving on our shores you seem to dismiss them as seemingly you are unaffected by the continuing 'invasion'

The pedantry is a distraction perhaps from the big numbers arriving on our shores.

At risk of repeating myself again sundowngirl, there is no value in sensationalising arrivals on a daily basis, what matters is the trend. Provided less people come, and when they do they are processed quickly and returned if they are not eligible to remain, the actions of the government and the wider efforts of the other countries in Europe are working in the right direction.
There is no magic wand, so this is not going to magically go away and stop being a problem just because people wish it would.

Oreo

The pedantry is a distraction perhaps from the big numbers arriving on our shores.

Not at all. I just prefer facts to fiction. There are not bigger numbers arriving on our shores - or at least there haven’t been for the January- April period, and we don’t yet know what the total will be for May. I provided the month by month breakdown yesterday on this thread.

But the OP was doing exactly that Casdon but hoping to show the dates when there weren’t any arrivals.This thread only attracted comments because of that.

Nor does it stop us being concerned for the future of our children and grandchildren. With 200,000+ already here and possibly able to bring their families to this country too - we have a right to be worried

We frequently see these videos of these boats arriving, if as they say, the government has deported thousands, why do we never see evidence of this?

Statistics can be manipulated

I know, I also commented on that earlier.

We don’t know the full figures yet for May but if the good weather continues we know there will be big numbers, and the same with June July and August.
It doesn’t matter that if on some days there aren’t any, the year on year numbers arriving in small boats is a huge problem for our country.

Here is a recent breakdown by category of performance against the key migration issues for sundowngirl, and anybody else who is more interested in accurate information than the minutiae of day to day arrivals.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo

Casdon

Here is a recent breakdown by category of performance against the key migration issues for sundowngirl, and anybody else who is more interested in accurate information than the minutiae of day to day arrivals.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo

It’s still too many undocumented young men arriving in this country….

Thanks Casdon. Am I right in thinking then that boat arrivals are down 40% +? The only reason I started this thread is that I’m pretty sure, if numbers escalated dramatically, there would be a thread about that pretty smartish…

Yes Shinamae, I don’t dispute that. I have never denied the issue, I just get frustrated by those people who go off half cocked, give inaccurate information, sensationalise, and fail to see the bigger picture.

My 18 year old granddaughter and her friends went to Brighton to sit on the beach yesterday but had to leave as they were uncomfortable being watched by a group of young male immigrants from local hotels/HMOs

This is not 'sensationalising' - it is happening every day. Maybe not in Wales, but definitely in the South East

I was talking about sensationalising the numbers Shinamae, as per the thread.

Casdon I'd appreciate a little more accuracy when you post please. In your post at 11:54;32 answering Rosie1959 you have named me in bold.

Whoops, sorry about that, I apologise.

Casdon

The bank holiday weekend runs from Saturday to Monday, as I said earlier in the thread. Friday was a working day. No hairs split, just accuracy, which you know I expect. I can’t be doing with inaccurate sensationalisation of information.

I meant to quote this post as in my previous one
just accuracy, which you know I expect.

I do, and I’m more than happy to be picked up on it when I get things wrong.