Hurry up the claims, not stop. Otherwise we're going to have many thousands more people sitting in hotels and other accomodation unable to contribute to our economy.
You are completely ignoring the financial ruin our country is in, our services are on their knees. You are also ignoring the crime and cultural implications mass immigration brings.
If you are trying to deny being racist and xenophobic then making multiple posts linking immigration to crime and "cultural implications", whatever that means, doesn't exactly help your case.
I dunno we could try something radical like actually making asylum decisions? Then either they'll be granted status to remain in the UK and have the possibility to start working and earning a living in the UK or, if their claim fails we should swiftly deport them (pending the outcome of any appeals, which should also be resolved promptly).
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The stats are there to read, the facts are ethnic minorities disproportionately dominate violent crime rates, make of that what you will.
Yes it is complicated, but to deny there's any cultural element in this is being ignorant in my opinion.I dunno we could try something radical like actually making asylum decisions? Then either they'll be granted status to remain in the UK and have the possibility to start working and earning a living in the UK or, if their claim fails we should swiftly deport them (pending the outcome of any appeals, which should also be resolved promptly).
Might also not be a bad idea to think about ways we can make use of the more skilled asylum seekers who are successful in their claims to put their skills to use. We need more doctors and nurses in the NHS, so we should be leaning into schemes like the British Medical Associations refugee doctors initiative:
Help for refugee doctors
The steps you can take to get a job as a doctor in the UK, more about our refugee doctor initiative and help with GMC registration.
I imagine there's other refugees that live in the UK with in demand skills who cannot use them due to problems with evidencing their competence and the lack of cross-acceptance of previous awarded certificates.
Good job that the number of asylum claims is only about 60,000 a year. Not sure that 60,000 extra people a year is really going to make that much of a difference in a country of 67 odd million. Quite apart from the fact that we've always managed to integrate, often far more successfully than elsewhere, newcomers to this country. It's something we're actually quite good at.
As for the crime aspect this is obviously more complex but it is worth noting that crime in general has continued to fall over the long term (even if it does get more play in the media that it used to) and also that I rather suspect that the rates of crime between asylum seekers/refugees and the UK born population are not all that different. Particularly if you compare them with those UK born citizens who live in deprived areas. A lot of crime has far more to do with poverty and lack of opportunity than whether you were born in the UK or not.
And it is a fact that many people from ethnic minorities are not immigrants.
Ok, but the cultural element does have an impact.
They are still not immigrants.
What "cultural element"?
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See above, thanks.
What has any of this got to do with protesting outside a hotel holding people who have just arrived in the country?
You're now deflecting, you know full well we weren't debating that particular incident at this particular moment.
It's probably for the best; the others are spot on with what they are saying and you have been caught out.
I am sorry to hear this and I hope you can seek some help, however holding anti-immigrant views is not going to help; holding such views, and getting into arguments with right-minded people is only going to make you feel worse.
You were the one digging up a long-dead thread to let us know your concerns.
Most asylum hotels are miserable places. Travelodges, Britannia hotels, and sketchy BnBs. Living in those is not pleasant or fun.
I think that in the immediate post-Covid world guaranteed income alongside reduced costs was a great relief.
Then as suggested we process the asylum claims faster and then those people get to work doing health care jobs. Also they would be paying taxes funding services.
Those long waiting lists for NHS appointments and short staffing in care homes comes from huge vacancies, much of which comes down to people going home post Brexit and low pay seeing many seek work elsewhere, such as Australia.
No it isn't. How is this remotely similar?
The "small flat" in my analogy is the UK. We are a small country. Just like the small flat doesn't have the capacity to accommodate an unexpected large crowd of people, nor too do we. We can't even support our own citizens at the moment, never mind other country's citizens.
Indeed, For instasnce nursing. We appear to have a shortfall of somewhere in the region of 40,000 full-time equivilant posts:
If a country of 67 million cannot absorb 97,000 asylum seekers we really must be stuffed (not that they'd all be granted refugee or humanitarian protection statuses)!
But we don't live in a small flat. The United Kingdom has about 70 million people in it and we get about 80,000 claims for asylum a year. Something like 0.001% of the population.
And to add to the points above we don't have a significant housing shortage either, we have a significant shortage of affordable housing and a market that doesn't encourage increasing the availability of it.
Indeed. Precisely my point. We can't absorb that number, and are indeed "stuffed" as you put it.
