Terrorist attack on asylum centre

[Octavian]

They're actually not though. This is a tweet from Kelvin Mackenzie

Kelvin MacKenzie

@kelvmackenzie


While it's clear the man who threw 3 petrol bombs at a migrant centre in Dover and then killed himself was deranged, the real story is of great tensions in the town among worried residents. Who can blame them? Another 990 illegals arrived yesterday. Rishi must stop the tide.

That’s a shocker but he doesn’t work for the Daily Mail.

It is entirely possible to think we need to have tighter controls around the Channel crossings but also find violence against those crossing, especially this disgraceful act in particular, abhorrent.

The two things don’t necessarily go hand in hand.

 

[Blue Mist]

Sadly there is lots and lots of disinformation online these days and that's on top of the mail/express etc fanning the flames.

Just the other day someone on my twitter timeline liked a post about how much Asylum seekers receive, it was total nonsense and I could tell straight away, but lots of people believe this stuff.

Bloomin' 'eck, if you can't rely on Twitter for news we really have lost it.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Supposedly 40k have arrived this year and in November/December last year 10k arrived so say similar amount that’s 50k this year, we have a housing shortage of 300k plus and that just for people already here, a small town turning up every year, what are we supposed to do? I have no answers the French must be pissing themselves.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Dover's a special town

I live there. It’s horrid.

 

[shackattack]

I live there. It’s horrid.

It has a really bleak feel to it, even on a sunny day. Folkestone isn't much better either and I always thought Kent was a strange place generally. Appeared very right wing and pro British and you can see why Farage had an office in Ramsgate

 

[Cricket Blue]

Supposedly 40k have arrived this year and in November/December last year 10k arrived so say similar amount that’s 50k this year, we have a housing shortage of 300k plus and that just for people already here, a small town turning up every year, what are we supposed to do? I have no answers the French must be pissing themselves.

It's absoluely disgraceful, the govt needs to sort this issue out once and for all. Fed up of this country.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Sounds like the sort of place where the bouncers throw you into the pubs, not out of 'em!

Underrated comment. Can't stop laughing

 

[bluenova]

Supposedly 40k have arrived this year and in November/December last year 10k arrived so say similar amount that’s 50k this year, we have a housing shortage of 300k plus and that just for people already here, a small town turning up every year, what are we supposed to do? I have no answers the French must be pissing themselves.

Why would the French by pissing themselves? They take in more refugees than we do.

And if a country of over 60m people can't deal with a new small town every year then we're in big trouble. 300,000 is the governments target for new homes EVERY year. We could easily absorb tens of thousands of migrants - and if we dealt with asylum seekers efficiently rather than simply thinking that we can somehow put them off, most of the associated problems would magically disappear.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

It has a really bleak feel to it, even on a sunny day. Folkestone isn't much better either and I always thought Kent was a strange place generally. Appeared very right wing and pro British and you can see why Farage had an office in Ramsgate

I grew up in Deal. It’s a far nicer place to live but there’s very little to do there.

I do prefer Folkestone to Dover but that isn’t saying a whole lot.

 

[Octavian]

Why would the French by pissing themselves? They take in more refugees than we do.

And if a country of over 60m people can't deal with a new small town every year then we're in big trouble. 300,000 is the governments target for new homes EVERY year. We could easily absorb tens of thousands of migrants - and if we dealt with asylum seekers efficiently rather than simply thinking that we can somehow put them off, most of the associated problems would magically disappear.

Over 50% of those crossing aren’t coming from war torn countries.

A huge chunk are coming from Albania, Iran, Iraq, over 50% combined and last year 75% were men aged 18-39.

In the first 6 months of 2022 only 18% who crossed came from Afghanistan and 9% from Syria.

We have a duty to take genuine refugees and especially those from countries like Afghanistan but I’m completely against us allowing young Albanian and Iranian men, who are coming so they can work illegally off the grid.

We’ve got enough problems looking after the population who are already here and why should the population fund, through taxes, more and more homes, destroying our countryside, so people coming from Albania and Iran can earn a bit more money?

There are no easy solutions but a proper refugee centre for processing people in Calais would be a start, and if anyone then decides to cross, bypassing that centre, then asylum is automatically declined.