Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

RA, its not Brexit.
Its Europe, slowly but surely tightening, their borders where these "chancers" are concerned. Denmark/ Sweden/Holland/ Germany are all saying no and cutting out the money they have been getting.
That's not to their liking, so they are heading west, to the sofest touch. Currently us.
Because we are so soft, we are accepting double or treble the amount qualifying in Europe. Why? Because they toss their papers away and we have to take their word for it, on where they come from.
The minute we stop putting folks in social housing and paying out freebies, as well as sorting out the black economy. Then it will fall drastically. 80% Single men under 35. In the year to the end of June 2024, he largest number of UK asylum seekers came from Afghanistan - 9,342. Other big countries for applications were Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh. In 2022, Albanians were the top nationality with more than 17,300 people (including dependants) claiming asylum. Three quarters arrived on small boats. Its wrong.

My point was that it’s yet another example of a complete Brexit failure. Made it harder and more expensive for ordinary U.K. folk to get around Europe. Made it more complicated to trade with Europe. Compromised security arrangements between ourselves and Europe but look at the figures for arrivals by boat…just look at what has happened here since 2019.

Also, according to the EUAA, Germany, Spain and Italy are the most common European destinations for asylum seekers while worldwide, according to Statista…Iran, Turkey, Germany (again), Pakistan and Uganda make up the top 5 with the UK coming in at 20th.

The migrant crisis is a major issue, I agree, but if it is to be solved it will be via joined up thought and policies, compassion and international cooperation, not bigoted nationalistic nonsense.