Quote Originally Posted by howdydoo View Post
He has given you an answer.

Why can't you take them in? We have thousands protesting in supporting mass immigration in London every week.

Why don't they all hold their hands up to house and feed these people?

What the hell if they happen to be rapists and murderers?

Just to be sure you could have a 30 minute interview with them first, to make sure they're a nice chap or maybe a nice family.

The authorities could give all these compassionate people who 'help', a little added responsibility by making them liable to prosecution if their new housemates commit any crimes. That's if the crime isn't against them and they haven't had their throats slit first.

If you live in a council house, we could make it compulsory for everyone who has a spare room, doesn't have a job and claims benefits. Actually that's a genius idea. You'd have a million people who've never worked in their life, look for a job, any kind of job, immediately.

No need to continue with the lie, that we need millions of people, to come here.

Oh jeez, I thought you were brighter than all of those posters who can't distinguish asylum seekers from economic migrants who have arrived to fill jobs we need doing.

On the first point, I don't want thousands of asylum seekers arriving by small boats or any other means. When did I ever say I did? My question is what do we legally do with them once they are here. I honestly don't know, but clearly your strange fantasies about similar people who recognise the complexity of the situation and therefore not joining in with tinpot flag waving bull**** having to house them joins the other fantasies about slashing boats or guning them down. I actually recognise the frustration and anger from many people about the situation, but can't see workable solutions under the international legal frameworks as they are. I'm sure Farage will set up the next election under the banner of us dropping out of the international frameworks, and good luck to him but I wouldn't vote for him as I think he'll make Truss look like an economic professional.

On your suggestion that it is a lie that we need millions of people to come here, I'm assuming your referring to legal migration? Ok, so if we go through with returning all millions of recent economic migrants, what's your plan for replacing them in the hospitals, schools, care homes and hospitality sectors in view of declining birth rates? To give a real world example, I employ two lecturers who are recent international student graduates in techincal subjects. We advertised nationally and as always have very few applicants, most of them from internationals. We don't pay them less than a UK equivalent, we simply hire the best we can at our goiing rate. Under Farage's plan, both of these would be returned to their home countries, Estonia and India. How do you propose employers like us fill these vacancies? Who will you have serving your food, wiping your arse etc?

I've suggested before that we could invest huge amounts in a UK skills training programme, apprenticeships, FE to move towards filling these jobs internally but that would cost billioins and billions and who would pay for that under our bone headed mentality of only voting for people who promise not to raise taxes, despite costs of everything rising year on year. I would suggest that in the real world, any potential government proposing such a massive upskilling the natives programme would be asked to justify how they will raise the costs for it, and said government wouldn't have a hope in hell of getting in power.