General British politics discussion thread

Not against refugees but refugees who come here to live off the state.

The number of people entering the UK to claim asylum has actually increased since the Rwanda policy was announced, so it doesn't really make sense to suggest that an increase in asylum applications here is down to that same policy. Especially when there is another obvious explanation - the opening of international travel post-Covid leading to a glut of applications across Europe.

Long time lurker here, I seldom comment, but that's a poor post and sort of sums up the brexiter/anti immigrant view. What you're basically saying is the brits don't want immigrants or longer council lists so that somehow makes it ok to ship real immigrants to a third world country with suspect treatment of same.

You may have a point that UK people don't want too many immigrants or long council lists, but that's a stretch to suggest a majority of UK people support this tory policy. My opinion would be most UK people would welcome a reasonable number of legitimate refugees and their frustration about council lists would exist even if there were no immigrants on the list and they would be against this cruel treatment of legitimate refugees. It's not unreasonable to think the UK would interview and filter out the economic migrants and have them sent back to where they came.

What did the UK think was going to happen post brexit, that France would stop these people travelling to the UK ? why would they do that, the UK are no longer a member so a problem leaving France for the UK is good news for France, the UK should have geared up for this eventuality, they had years to prepare. It's not like the UK takes a larger share of immigrants when compared to Eu countries, they were responsible for causing this problem with their foreign policy over the past 50yrs, time to pay.

You suspect incorrectly. But either way, it's not policy here. No need to deflect. You can discuss this substantive point easily enough without bringing up any other country including Ireland.

Another day, another pile of crap from hotmail.com.

I'm sure you'll toddle off now for another few weeks after being handed your racist and xenophobic ass by Capaill?

Have you been living under a rock the last few years?

We have posters now defending British people when for years we've been hearing how anti immigrant they've become.

Im not defending anyone im simply asking for something to back up your statement that "the brits dont want them" from your deflection im guessing you don't have anything

It's not reality. As always you just engage in this forum in multiple threads acting like you know what the public think and usually get your ass handed to you and then disappear for a few weeks.

Honestly, your tenacity would be commendable if you weren't a conservative xenophobe.

None of us said anything of the sort were all just wondering if you can back up your claims. It seems like as usual though you arent able to so im guessing we can expect you to disappear for a week or two until you hope this massive embarrassment has been forgotten so you can jump in again with some new baseless nonsense?