Quote Originally Posted by SithHappens View Post
What i don't get is why have 'hotels' and small boats only become a major issue in the past 12 months?

By major issue i mean the coverage and protests. Not saying it never got mentioned but it never created the same amount of noise and division while the tories where in charge. The number housed peaked at a significantly higher amount under them than there is today.

It might be lower now had they not stopped processing applications.

Amazing too how the tories seem to know all the answers to solving it despite having done nothing for years before last year.
Coverage: because the news outlets need something to fall back on to fill their timeslots/pages and justify their existence

Increase since the Tories: I think the change in administration is just coincidental, 'the people' have just had enough of failed promises/initiatives and what they see as over-sympathetic treatment over the years. NB I wouldn't describe the Tories as hving been in control of anything in particular, hence Labour's chance

I'll beg to differ about 'answers', no-one knows the answer/answers, 'smashing the gangs' is just a silly catchphrase. I have a friend from Zanki in Iraq who describes this as a 'many-headed snake', chop one head off and another rises.