Originally Posted by
Baldeep Inminj
I do have to wonder if you have a TV. Have you seen what’s happening in Ukraine? That is absolute hell. Housing some asylum seekers in your sleepy village in safe and beautiful North Yorkshire does not even register on the ‘hell’ scale.
And these people have to go somewhere. Under the government s new law, a 18 year old woman, who has been a sex slave since she was 11, has been gang-raped hundreds of times and who is illegally trafficked to the UK on a small boat, will be deported without any chance at all to ask for help. It is utterly shameful I am afraid.
1. They are coming from France; why would they be safer in the UK than in an EU/OECD/G7 state?
2. The new rules only apply to those not coming from identified war zones such as Ukraine, Afghanistan etc.
3. Of the 45,000 that arrived in the last year, a third were from Albania, where there is no conflict and they are a EU candidate nation. Others were from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, where there is an established asylum route.
4. Both the EU, and EU member states, including Germany who did much to create the current crisis, are looking at deportation to third states.
5. Why isn't the 18 year old woman's home state doing more to stop her being gang-raped? Shouldn't the government do more to hold other nations to account for their human rights, rather than just accepting endless streams of people?
6. There are accepted routes for asylum, the new rules only apply to those arriving by boat.
7. The English channel is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world; when would you recommend, and how would you recommend the problem is solved? By accepting people, more will come and the beaches of Kent will see bodies of those that didn't make it washed up on a regular basis.
8. 45,000 people is a new hospital, several schools, 2-3 GP clinics and 10-15000 new homes a year..... that's just those arriving by dinghy. Our resources are not infinite.