In international law, they can travel through a safe 3rd country, UK law is a bit grey right now, as the Rwanda bill is a mess and won't be used, but has passed. Travelling through a 3rd safe country can be used as a reason to declare the asylum claim inadmissible, but it is still not illegal to enter a country however you can in order to ask for asylum as far as I am aware.
This is something I will blame the Tories for. They were not prepared to spend the money necessary to make our border controls and people processing work.
Has anyone checked who is benefitting from the funding for detention centres? I haven't but I'll wager good money as to which party they'll have ties to.
'Consuming public services': it's the elderly that largely use (not consume) public services, not those that have recently arrived in this country, who are looking to work and earn a living.
Do you know, I’ve heard this one a lot. Ignoring the Daily Mail stuff, yes elderly people do use a lot of NHS services. So? They’ve paid into and contributed towards funding for the NHS through a lifetime of taxes in most cases. Is demonising elderly people more morally palatable than migrants? I’ve never understood this line of thinking.
Bibby Stockhom was connected in some way, not sure about others.
Naivity at it's best...
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Do we have any up to date figures of how many people we have in the UK currently in the asylum process?
I read the other week that Turkey has 22.5million refugees as of last month, the largest figure in the world, which would kind of dwarf our levels. but do the born and bred Turks ever riot about immigration?
I’ve got to be honest, whilst your course you’re right, it’s wrong to demonise the elderly but the major of the taxes they paid were when they were working right? If so they were contributing to the care of my generation’s grandparents who were born in the early 1900’s, now let’s use my mum (91) two hips, two knees, two cataracts, 11 different types of pills each month, bus pass heat allowance etc, I don’t recall my grandparents having hips knees dentures cataracts and heating allowance, so it’s Gen X, early millennial’s and late boomers who’s tax in majority contributing for all this right now, not the taxes of the elderly surely?
Exactly but you’ve described the tax system in a nutshell, it has to be based on goodwill, which is why the wealthiest should be paying their fair share (they’re not), businesses like Amazon should be paying their fair share (they’re not) and foreign workers should be paying their fair share. Then when they grow elderly and use more NHS services, the next generation and so on. Everyone benefits when it’s their turn.
I personally think that counter protests do not work as it just gives the original protestors something else to attack. The first and simplest thing that a law abiding citizen can do is actually vote when they are asked to so that the voices of the far right (or far left for that matter) are suppressed (hopefully).
It's not naive, it's the truth, if you want to say it isn't true, counter it with something.
Repellent individual. Prior to today's 'there's going to be a civil war' he re-tweeted Stephen Laxley-Yennon, aka Tommy Robinson
I think you’ve described the actions of the majority of NSC’s finest there, bravo sir
Genuine question, you describe that graph as ‘taking asylum seekers’ are you certain that the correct terminology shouldn’t be ‘hosting refugees’ genuine question an no need for a sarcastic responses?
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