According to the UNHCR:I asked a local in the bar last night why asylum seekers don't stop in Turkey.
"Turkey currently hosts both a population of over 3,5 million refugees from neighbouring Syria and several hundred thousand asylum seekers and beneficiaries of protection of other nationalities, most principally originating from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia, among others."
so no, no refugees there, all heading to the UK for free dental care.
....it's all downhill from here.
Think what you like.Originally Posted by Dave_Mole
They were certainly hoping to but I suspect now that they can see what a shambles it is they are having second thoughts.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
They were certainly hoping to but I suspect now that they can see what a shambles it is they are having second thoughts.
You got it backwards, as of course you would.
The European parliament committee voted to suspend the accession talks with Turkey in 2019.
....it's all downhill from here.
Don't let the truth get in the way of facts
It’s quite simple. They come here to work and send money back and/or repay the traffickers, and it is very easy to work without papers in the UK. Everywhere else you need official papers and you will not be employed without them. Here, you can wash cars all day for a pittance, hand most of it back to your gangmaster, go home to your bedroom shared with six others and maybe just manage to send a few quid back once a month. It’s why most of them are young, fit males, the breadwinners of the extended family back home. Ask why so many refugee children “disappear” from care - picked up by the traffickers again to do god knows what. We shouldn’t make it any easier for the traffickers to ply this evil trade.
You've been out in the sun too long
....it's all downhill from here.
Correct. Only 36 today. Back in for shower and shave.
Not sure how we have gone down this route on the CV thread, but such is life on the FRA Forum
Immigration, like many other issues, is an issue that is very hard to argue against without being labelled a racist, a Little Englander, a Daily Mail reader, a Tommy Robinson sympathiser...
I'm not against immigration or migrants themselves, but I want a process in place and I want it managed effectively.
National borders are important.
We have a census every 10 year to help Government plan. In the last 2 decades we have had circa 6 million increase in UK population which is driven by migration, so almost 10,0000 for every parliamentary constituency.
We know that isn't evenly distributed. Scotland for example, according to the SNP has an emigration problem.
That means some areas really are under extensive pressure.
The current situation with 100s a day and almost entirely young single men, coming over in boats needs to be stopped. We have a contract given to Serco and 2 other companies to house these channel migrants and others like them getting in, and they are block booking complete hotels, and mostly large posh ones, as the expense of the taxpayer.
It's the legit way of making money from illegal people smuggling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyH8UxwTsUM
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
No worries, alcohol kills it.
So this poem, kind of well known nowadays I guess so feel free to yawn disinterestly if you’ve heard it all before, is not just a about the two ways people look at refugees but is also pretty representative of the massive split in U.K. society right now:
Refugees
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
(now read from bottom to top)
So are you a top downer? Or a bottom upper?
It’s no coincidence to me that most brexiteers and Tory voters (and you can probably throw in anti face mask wearers and coronavirus deniers) are top downers
