There are elements within the tory party that understand that these numbers are a cost effective way of weaponizing immigration with themselves as the winners, always 'against' immigration unlike the wet lefties. Even in Faversham we have no immigrant pressures or even presence, and we are not far from the channel. And yet it is a major issue for the fearful conservative element among the working class voters here. Bosh, job done.The thing I don't understand a couple of very simple statistics makes it clear what this Government have done.
They stopped allowing asylum claims from people whilst abroad in 2011, forcing people to actually come to the UK in order to claim, and then shut down all legal channels of coming to the UK forcing people to cross the channel in small boats. The resulting numbers crossing the channel in small boats ?
2018 - 299
2019 - 1,890
2020 - 8,466
2021 - 28,526
2022 - 45,755
(Numbers weren't recorded prior to 2018 as the government thought them inconsequential).
If you then withdraw resources in order to increase processing times for asylum seekers then this is what you will do to the backlog
2012 - 9,800
2018 - 27,000
2022 - 161,000
So this current situation is either deliberate Government policy or incompetence on a level even this cabal would find challenging.
It really is so simple that I can only think that people on here still spouting the Government line aren't doing it for any logical reason but that it simply backs up their own deeply held bigotry
In much the same way the Thatcher gang weaponized unemployment, allowing it to go through the roof while managing to blame it all on the striking unions. Labour isn't working.
I have to say that at this point in the narrative, when I see working class tories complaining about the pound in their pocket, I think 'suck it up, you whining ignoramuses'. Of course you kids won't get on the property ladder. You have voted for your own servitude'.