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Friday saw the highest number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the Channel in a single day so far this year.
Some 686 migrants made the dangerous journey, according to Home Office figures.
The previous daily high for 2023 was recorded on 11 June, when 549 people made the trip.
The latest crossings take the provisional total for this year to 12,119.
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originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: gortex
Welcome to Globalisation, making the entire world equally poor while destroying all traditional values.
Perhaps first-world countries ought to help to make countries where the migrants are coming from a better place to live.
Hell if NATO banded together and turned just one or 2 North African countries into safe havens. Imagine if the funds and military power being sent to Ukraine were used to prop up a government or 2, with real social programs and assistance.
Right, so back then these boats full of migrants were funded by governments as well ?
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: gortex
These boat people have always been a problem, first it was the Romans, then when they finally got sick of the wet and cold and pissed off the vikings came, a real pain in the arse that lot, they even decided to stay having come from a place even colder if not quite as damp. Then the bloody Norman’s arrived and that was the end of the good times for us!
This current invasion is a real slap in the face though, they barely know how to rape and pillage, instead preferring to lounge about the place and adding to the already long queues and waiting lists we have. I fear stepping out of my safe space to get my trans op because my virtue signalling isn’t just stopping oil fast enough! At least I have great paying job in the MSM where I get to tell people how bad they are for wrong think and their unconscious bias, the cretins!
Ok I suppose what I’m getting at is with what this country has become, the redundant mindset that voting will change anything. The insidious corruption in all public services and politics. And last but certainly not least the apathy and cuckold mentality of the general public.. well have at it.
Three British cabinet ministers are being sued by a group of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, who claim they are being falsely imprisoned in dangerous conditions on a small island in the Indian Ocean.
Some of the migrants have spent more than a year-and-a-half on Diego Garcia, a British overseas territory, after the navy rescued their ailing fishing boat as it attempted a crossing to Canada in October 2021.
In total, 89 asylum seekers have since arrived in Diego Garcia.
Some have accepted payments to return to Sri Lanka, while others have made onward journeys to Reunion, a French Island.
The vast majority who have made asylum claims have been rejected but insist that it is unsafe for them to return to Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers were defeated in a civil war 14 years ago. Only two have been told that they will be granted asylum in a "third country".
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originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: putnam6
Perhaps first-world countries ought to help to make countries where the migrants are coming from a better place to live.
What are you suggesting we don’t bomb the crap out of them, or otherwise sanction them?
Hell if NATO banded together and turned just one or 2 North African countries into safe havens. Imagine if the funds and military power being sent to Ukraine were used to prop up a government or 2, with real social programs and assistance.
That was done with Libya it’s a proper safe haven now for human trafficking and slave labour.
Forgive my sarcasm it’s just my way of expressing the utter disgust I feel with the state of affairs in the world.
originally posted by: merkins
a reply to: putnam6
I agree with you however the system doesn’t want that and will not allow that.
The amount of money that has been sunk into places like Africa is enough to make it a paradise of rich citizens with lives of plenty. However corruption prevents the money from ever getting to where it’s needed and that is getting much worse not better These days the money doesn’t even reach the warlords and corrupt politicians and business people of Africa. It gets stolen by western politicians before it ever arrives.
Police have clashed with protestors who surrounded a hotel in Wales accused of telling dozens of workers they will lose their jobs ahead of housing hundreds of asylum seekers.
The four-star Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, is reportedly making 95 of its staff redundant so the owners can allow the Home Office to use it to house up to 241 asylum seekers.
Protestors opposed to the plans surrounded the 76-room hotel with a view to blocking the conversion, and police were called to the scene on Sunday as the crowd grew.
Two people were arrested for allegedly preventing the movement of a vehicle that was blocking the hotel's entrance, and both were later released on bail.
Staff at the hotel were called to meetings last Tuesday and told they would be made redundant from 10 July, when the first asylum seekers are expected to arrive.
Llanelli MP, Dame Nia Griffith, branded the news "outrageous".
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