Priti Vacant has a plan, a deal with migrants plan.

[Octavian]

The vast majority don’t want to come.

Do you think if we allowed the option of anyone everywhere to apply for asylum, we’d end up with too many people that we could support, yes or no?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Do you think if we allowed the option of anyone everywhere to apply for asylum, we’d end up with too many people that we could support, yes or no?

No. If we had the right process we could allow in the ones who qualified and reject those that didn’t.

The only people coming across in dinghies then would be those who didn‘t qualify, so we could deport them much quicker than the process allows now.

Our population pyramid/bell shows we need immigration too.

 

[Octavian]

No. If we had the right process we could allow in the ones who qualified and reject those that didn’t.

The only people coming across in dinghies then would be those who didn‘t qualify, so we could deport them much quicker than the process allows now.

Our population pyramid/bell shows we need immigration too.

The UN estimates there were 84 million legitimate refugees in the middle of 2021.

I think if we became the country with the easiest access to seek asylum, which we would be if we allowed anyone to apply from anywhere, then even if a fraction of that number arrived, we’d have a big infrastructure problem.

We do need immigration and will in the future as our birth rate declines, but it needs to be a more manageable number than just opening our arms to large numbers.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The UN estimates there were 84 million legitimate refugees in the middle of 2021.

I think if we became the country with the easiest access to seek asylum, which we would be if we allowed anyone to apply from anywhere, then even if a fraction of that number arrived, we’d have a big infrastructure problem.

We do need immigration and will in the future as our birth rate declines, but it needs to be a more manageable number than just opening our arms to large numbers.

How many do we take a year?

How many do France, Germany, Italy etc take?

Instead of being afraid of what the number may be, why don’t we find out and adapt our policy according to that?

 

[Octavian]

How many do we take a year?

How many do France, Germany, Italy etc take?

Instead of being afraid of what the number may be, why don’t we find out and adapt our policy according to that?

We get around 40,000 applications in a normal year but that will be higher now because of Ukraine.

Because people already here are struggling with housing, cost of living etc. and the population are going to need lots of support from the government, which will then impact future taxes/further inflation depending on how it’s treated.

Significantly increasing the number of those who need this support is going to make things worse and worse.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We get around 40,000 applications in a normal year but that will be higher now because of Ukraine.

Because people already here are struggling with housing, cost of living etc. and the population are going to need lots of support from the government, which will then impact future taxes/further inflation depending on how it’s treated.

Significantly increasing the number of those who need this support is going to make things worse and worse.

That isn’t an immigration problem, that is an austerity problem.

 

[Octavian]

That isn’t an immigration problem, that is an austerity problem.

We are in the mess we are with inflation and the cost of living crisis because of the pandemic and the government printing money during the pandemic to support people.

There are other factors involved of course but this is the main contributing factor.

We are paying for the furlough scheme and the cost of tackling the virus.

That’s not austerity, austerity doesn’t cause inflation, printing money does.

 

[bluethrunthru]

She is worse than useless and lying every time she speaks - imagine how weak we look to the rest of the world when we tell them that we have taken back control of our own borders whilst bleating that the French aren't doing our jobs for us and now we outsource Kent to the Albanian rozzers - ffs we are finished

Only 21 foreign nationals removed from UK under post-Brexit asylum rules

Since Brexit, asylum seekers who arrive from a "safe third country" can be returned.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We are in the mess we are with inflation and the cost of living crisis because of the pandemic and the government printing money during the pandemic to support people.

There are other factors involved of course but this is the main contributing factor.

We are paying for the furlough scheme and the cost of tackling the virus.

That’s not austerity, austerity doesn’t cause inflation, printing money does.

Austerity made us have less doctors, police, social care and every other vital infrastructure.

This then makes people not want more people from elsewhere as they already need to wait a month to see a doctor etc.

If we had more doctors etc, the groundswell of opinion would be different to how it is now.

It’s totally separate to furlough as that started 10 years after this episode of austerity began.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

They’re trying to get from France to Britain because of the lifestyle they can get here rather than France. They’ll know the success rate of people crossing the Channel and what their chances are of making it, before they do.

If they know that the majority are being caught and processed properly away from the UK, and they’re not genuine refugees, then they won’t try it.

Allowing everyone in the world to apply for refugee status from wherever they are isn’t sustainable, there’s too many.

Just a gentle reminder that the UK has the

• Lowest welfare payments in Europe

• Lowest sickness benefits in Europe

• Worse state pension in the civilised world.

So they aint coming here for Social Aid.

(Where has the money gone?)