View Poll Results: So, the UK plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda ... Is it a good idea or not?

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  • Yes, asylum seekers should not be allowed, the UK is crowded enough

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  • Yes, asylum seekers should seek refuge in the first available country.

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    ^^ As I said, a safe migration route with processing centre in France operated jointly by both countries. Possibly similar arrangements in Belgium and Holland. It would stop the dinghy rackets and would force UK to meet its obligations rather than play the blame game.

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    Any "numbers"/guesses on how many reach, let's say UK, and stay there ...illegally ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    It would stop the dinghy rackets and would force UK to meet its obligations rather than play the blame game
    They could take UN quota refugees and turn back all "channel crossers".

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    No, I don't think I've ever done a poll here before ... a learning experience.

    Poll is open for 2 months

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    I'd like to know who the 2 boneheads are that voted for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    The Dublin Agreement no longer applies to the UK. It hasn't since Dec 2020 because, you know, Brexit.

    Troy, thanks for that.

    It does not appear as a black and white (no pun intended) issue.

    Last updated: 14/03/22
    The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 but remained subject to the Dublin Regulation during the Transition Period (TP).
    The UK issued guidance explaining how to process cases where a Dublin Regulation responsibility request was made by a Dublin State to the UK prior to the end of the TP at 23h 00 on 31 December 2020 but either no decision had been made in relation to that request or a decision had been made but the transfer had not taken place before the end of the TP.
    Dublin - Asylum Information Database | European Council on Refugees and Exiles

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    ^ all good Troy and like so many others who are outraged by this. but what is your solution to the ever increasing numbers being bred like locusts in the Africa & ME - you can moan all you like but someone has to pay for and meet the needs of these people and generally it ain't the people who are moaning about the Govts approach to this. The problem is the root cause and the solution ain't housing all the disaffected in countries thousands of miles from their source.

    Your beloved EU is allowing the traffickers to operate with impunity and quite frankly is as ineffectual in dealing with them as they are in dealing with any internal issues. Being uncharitable i would even say they are encouraging them to punish the UK, but off course like Micron and his hate for the UK that's unthinkable.

    So i ask again Troy what are you suggesting as the solution, or are you another David Lammy.
    You are buying too much into the Malthusian scare story about Africa. Yes their birth rate is higher than anywhere else. But that doesn't mean that kids are starving. Some do starve but that's the result of war and politics locally. They can subsistance farm to support themselves and have been for centuries.

    Their birth rate is not a political or moral concern of ours in any way

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Fuck me, the UK are only about 50 more Immigrants away from recognising Sharia Law
    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    It's only a matter of time before they are outnumbered and out voted by these brainwashed fucking lunatics.
    I think you're safe . . .



    As it is, you are a Christian foreigner living in Thailand. Odd that.

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    I’m not a Christian anything, PH, but thanks for the accusation.

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    He doesn't get social welfare payments from Thailand either. People might be a bit more open minded about illegal entrants if they paid for themselves, or were funded within their own community- not draining the taxpayers dollar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Troy, thanks for that.

    It does not appear as a black and white (no pun intended) issue.



    Dublin - Asylum Information Database | European Council on Refugees and Exiles
    A grey area during the transition period maybe, but that finished on Dec 21.
    The UK no longer has access to the EU DB to find out the migrant's first port of entry. It's even more reason to have an agreement with France for joint processing.

    Has the UK published figures on how many migrants are refused entry and how many have been removed from the cou try and an indication of where they were sent?

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    Correct.

    I have always stayed here legally without any dodgy shit like education visas or false marriages.

    I have always supported myself financially, and now I support Thais also.

    I have never had any kind of government hand outs or benefits in times of unemployment, no social security, no housing allowance or child support. No free health care or even a bud pass.

    I have always paid taxes where applicable.

    I have created jobs for Thais.

    I have trained Thais and continue to do so.

    I create reasonable amounts of charity donations for underprivileged local children year in year out.

    I have spent a lot of fucking money here in the last 22 years.

    I have never asked for or expected citizenship.

    I have never been in trouble with the law.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    He doesn't get social welfare payments from Thailand either. People might be a bit more open minded about illegal entrants if they paid for themselves, or were funded within their own community- not draining the taxpayers dollar.
    The first point you allude to is irrelevant to the second. That wasn't the basis of the point Dirk was making, but you knew that - I'll help you. I replied to:
    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Fuck me, the UK are only about 50 more Immigrants away from recognising Sharia Law. What then? It's only a matter of time before they are outnumbered and out voted by these brainwashed fucking lunatics.
    So, sabang, you do understand what asylum seekers and refugees are, don't you?

    Ok, show me with government facts and figures how they are '"draining the taxpayers dollar".



    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    I’m not a Christian anything, PH, but thanks for the accusation.
    You're as Christian as many of them are Muslim - that was my point. The numbers are very small.

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    Ok, show me with government facts and figures how they are '"draining the taxpayers dollar".
    Asylum support: What you'll get - GOV.UK

    Asylum support


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    What you'll get

    You can ask for somewhere to live, a cash allowance or both as an asylum seeker.
    Housing

    You’ll be given somewhere to live if you need it. This could be in a flat, house, hostel or bed and breakfast.
    You cannot choose where you live. It’s unlikely you’ll get to live in London or south-east England.
    Cash support

    You’ll get Ł40.85 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries.
    Your allowance will be loaded onto a debit card (ASPEN card) each week. You’ll be able to use the card to get cash from a cash machine.
    If you’ve been refused asylum

    You’ll be given:

    • somewhere to live
    • Ł40.85 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries

    You will not be given:

    • the payment card if you do not take the offer of somewhere to live
    • any money

    Extra money for mothers and young children

    You’ll get extra money to buy healthy food if you’re pregnant or a mother of a child under 3. The amount you get will depend on your situation.
    Your situation Extra payment per week
    Pregnant mother Ł3
    Baby under 1 year old Ł5
    Child aged 1 to 3 Ł3
    Maternity payment

    You can apply for a one-off Ł300 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
    If you’ve been refused asylum

    You can apply for a one-off Ł250 maternity payment if your baby is due in 8 weeks or less, or if your baby is under 6 weeks old.
    Applying for the maternity grant

    You apply for the maternity grant in the same way whether you’re still an asylum seeker or you’ve been refused asylum.
    You’ll need to request form MAT B1 from your doctor to apply for the payment. You can apply for the maternity payment at the same time you apply for asylum support.
    If you get pregnant after you’ve applied for asylum support, you can apply to the support team that dealt with your application for asylum support.
    Healthcare

    You may get free National Health Service (NHS) healthcare, such as to see a doctor or get hospital treatment.
    You’ll also get:

    • free prescriptions for medicine
    • free dental care for your teeth
    • free eyesight tests
    • help paying for glasses

    Education

    Your children must attend school if they are aged 5 to 17. All state schools are free and your children may be able to get free school meals.






    Non-Gov-

    . The overall cost of the asylum system is more than Ł1.3 billion. As part of this spending, the government is required by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (henceforth ‘the 1999 Act’) to provide housing and payments to certain eligible asylum seekers and failed claimants. The National Audit Office (NAO) has calculatedthat switching from the previous Compass accommodation contracts to the seven new housing and support contracts in 2019 has coincided with a 28% increase in costs, so that ‘in its first full year, the new service costs some Ł560 per month for each accommodated asylum seeker, compared with Ł437 under the last full year of Compass (2018)’. This, and the rising number of people supported, suggests a growing burden on the taxpayer, including a main provision for certain refused asylum seekers which the government repealed in 2016 but which has still not been implemented.
    2. The total cost for both pending claimants and rejected applicants is estimated by Migration Watch UK – using the NAO figures cited above – to have risen:

    • from just under Ł250 million to house and pay just under 47,500 people in 2018.
    • to over Ł350 million for 53,000 people (year ending June 2020) – a rise of Ł100 million.

    3. The total housed has risen even further since then as, in late September, a Home Office (HO) minister was reportedas stating that the total being housed had risen to 60,000 during the Covid pandemic. However, it is also worth noting that the numbers especially in ‘initial accommodation’ were already rising in late 2019 as a result of increased illegal Channel arrivals. Detected arrivals have totalled 24,000 since the start of 2018. 98% of those detected arriving via this unauthorised route in 2020 claimed asylum (Home Office).
    Support for failed asylum seekers = currently an estimated Ł130 million per year
    https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2020/10/03/cost-of-housing-and-payments-for-failed-asylum-claimants-estimated-at-130-million-per-year



    Actually I reckon straight out II's rather than 'asylum seekers' are a much better ticket- because they go straight out and get a job in the black economy!

    I doubt those figures account for the scrounge industry feeding off refos and asylum seekers either- social workers, scungebag lawyers and the like- all paid for by he gov't, ie taxpayer.

    A self described refugee who bypasses or passes through several countries on his way to claim asylum after illegally entering his "country of choice" is not a valid refugee in my books, and should be automatically refused asylum there.



    Last edited by sabang; 19-04-2022 at 06:23 PM.

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    "DRAINING"

    All caps might be better

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    You are buying too much into the Malthusian scare story about Africa. Yes their birth rate is higher than anywhere else. But that doesn't mean that kids are starving. Some do starve but that's the result of war and politics locally. They can subsistance farm to support themselves and have been for centuries.

    Their birth rate is not a political or moral concern of ours in any way
    Who mentioned starving, I am talking about economic migrants who of course will gain the asylum system. As for the Dublin agreement, bollix, the EU has failed in that respect before 2020.

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    Well as predicted, this whole thing is being shown up as a complete sham, and is backfiring badly on Stumpi Patel.

    And now BoJo is committing the final act of political harikari by being photographed in India in a variety of silly hats.

    At least Maggie had Dennis for that purpose.

    Private Eye must be having a field day.
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    Did they let Patel back in the country?

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    Patel's sassy

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Correct.

    I have always stayed here legally without any dodgy shit like education visas or false marriages.

    I have always supported myself financially, and now I support Thais also.

    I have never had any kind of government hand outs or benefits in times of unemployment, no social security, no housing allowance or child support. No free health care or even a bud pass.

    I have always paid taxes where applicable.

    I have created jobs for Thais.

    I have trained Thais and continue to do so.

    I create reasonable amounts of charity donations for underprivileged local children year in year out.

    I have spent a lot of fucking money here in the last 22 years.

    I have never asked for or expected citizenship.

    I have never been in trouble with the law.
    Now if only we could get that type of migrant to Australia.
    Many boat refugees/ilegal migrants to Australia throw their papers overboard when about to be intercepted and picked up by the R.A.N. The reason being is that many would fly to Indonesia and Malaysia visa free on a passport from Islamic countries. They they go to australia via smugglers on boats. They do this as many of them have a narrative that is inconsistent with their papers. Other refugees have been found going back for holidays etc to the country they were supposedly fleeing.
    There will always be friction when govts allow people from very different cultural backgrounds into the country against the wishes of much of the local population.
    The strict controls in Australia are pretty well the same policy for both major parties. The labor party's policy is similar to the incumbent government. They know any loosening up of refugee policy is electoral suicide in Australia.
    The UN refugee charter is in need of desperate reform like the rest of the U.N.

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    The Sri Lankan Tamil refos are a number too- I mean their Homeland of Tamil Nadu is 14km from Sri Lanka across the Polk Strait. But somehow, I guess their compass goes all haywire and they end up travelling all the way down the Indonesian archipelago, and straight on to illegal smuggling boats in Timor.... Coincidentally they disembark in Australia, and complain their human rights are being violated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Now if only we could get that type of migrant to Australia.
    If only Australia would allow me to Migrate back again to work and pay taxes, I would be there already.

    It's extremely difficult when you go through the proper channels, especially right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    ... and they throw their Passports into the English Channel as they cross?

    Immigration:- What country do you come from?

    Asylum Seeker:- I forget ... or Sweden, or Germany, or Iceland
    Most of the time I can easily tell what country someone is from by he way they look, the way they are dresses the language they speak, or their accent.
    It might be illegal to send a person to a country that they don't have documented evidence they came from. but not as illegal IMO, to send them to a third country where they know they did not come from.
    t least in the first instance you are making a good faith effort of repatriation.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Well as predicted, this whole thing is being shown up as a complete sham, and is backfiring badly on Stumpi Patel.
    You know you're on a loser when even the wicked witch May has concerns over its "legality, practicality and efficacy".

    As for innovation, it is not much different to the Israel 2013/4 policy with regards Eritreans and Sudanese asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda. That ended up being cancelled as it was a total fuck-up with most escaping and becoming victims of the migration scam routes into Europe. That is to say, rather than stop more people crossing the channel and seeking asylum it will mean more people crossing and trying to remain undetected in the UK. That won't be too difficult since the UK still doesn't issue ID cards for some very strange reason...like the very people that don't like all these migrants also don't want ID cards. Still, dumb is what dumb does.

    Moving under Threats: The Treacherous Journeys of Refugees who ‘Voluntary’ Departed from Israel to Rwanda and Uganda and Reached Europe | Oxford Law Faculty


    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    Coincidentally they disembark in Australia, and complain their human rights are being violated.
    Very interesting, I'm sure, but totally irrelevant to the topic.


    As Helge suggested earlier, the biggest problem is not the intake of asylum seekers and refugees but how to remove those that fail to meet either criteria. How are they removed from the country and to where are they sent? This is the problem that needs to be tackled by all countries.

    Meanwhile, the UK intake of war refugees is still woefully short of expectations.

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    Priti Vacant - yet another Tory liar.
    Last edited by cyrille; 23-04-2022 at 04:57 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Priti Vacant - yet another Tory liar.
    and Blair and Labour never lied about anything did they? I am not even a Tory. Quite beneath me to pick 1 of 2 sides, then blindly and fiercely defend them. I would like to have Priti beneath me though meowwwwww

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