Election Year or Fear!

[swaledale]

It is time that responsible politicians had an honest conversation about immigration and asylum seekers. fat chance of that happening and I'm beyond contempt at Labour for pandering to the xenophobic fake news party!

I agree that hotels aren't suitable for housing them, but lets not forget it was the Tories and Jenrick in particular who did this and created a backlog in processing claims and failed to deport those whose claims failed.

Labour has committed to ending the use of hotels, though they are going to have to do it quicker than 2029, they ahve also beefed up enforcement of illegal working.


I had to laugh at Farage claiming he'd deport 600,000, there are actually only 110,000 in the UK! Still when did facts or actual solutions to issues matter to that blustering, narcissistic grifter?

Lets al so remember, that the majority of the UK voters aren't focussed on asylum seekers, yes they would like to see them properly and humanely handled but this ugly xenophobic rhetoric that's in the right wing media and pushed by reform and the Tories et al isn't in tune with what most people think.

[Andy_Faber]

Lets al so remember, that the majority of the UK voters aren't focussed on asylum seekers

According to Ipsos, Statista and Yougov they are

[swaledale]

According to Ipsos, Statista and Yougov they are

Ah according to polls, yeah I take them at face value, because of course they are always reliable, the people giving the answers are truthful, the way a question is asked has of course no influence on the answer received and a person who is actually capable of thinking would assume them to be a reliable indicator of what UK voters are thinking. Always bearing in mind that many UK voters don't actually think to deeply about these issues and would give a very different answer if asked the same question the next day!

So forgive me if I am sceptical about such polls indicating anything other than there are a significant number of people who for some bizarre reason are concerned about an issue which doesn't even affect most of them, probably because of the endless pushing of the issue by certain online grifters and right wing media.

But here are some numbers for you - 3,000 estimated to be taking part in protests against Asylum seekers, 100,000 estimated attendance at the London pride march. Now I don't for one moment think that means more people are interested in LBGQT rights than Asylum seekers, but it does rather show your reply hasn't been very well thought out.