Define ‘get to grips with’? Should they starve or live on the streets? Does that help you or anyone else?
Instead of meaningless phrases, spell out your solution. Go.
I think this cuts both ways Bob.
As Macron said " France cannot take in all the misery in the world" and nor can we , but how much of it are you willing to take?
Lets put aside what is currently legal or illegal or any semantics around that but I am sure we can agree that war, famine, climate change etc will ensure a limitless supply of potentially valid asylum seekers and economic migrants towards these shores for years to come and in even greater numbers than we have seen to date.
Already half of social housing in London is occupied by foreign born tenants and rising, we cannot build enough homes to support the current numbers and our own children are living in sub standard and often temporary accommodation or paying extortionate rents to private landlords.
Many of the people entering the country are simply not equipped in language or skills to support themselves in our economy so we end up with numbers like 72% of the Somali community having to be placed in social housing we don't have to spare and Congolese, Iraqis and Afghans claiming benefits at four times the rate of British people.
Our infrastructure is crumbling our Health service is barely fit for purpose and despite taxation being at a post war high we still needed to borrow £131 Billion in the last year, not for any great investment that might change our fortunes just to keep the shitshow on the road for a bit longer. Interest just to service our current debts now over £100Billion annually and we keep borrowing.
This is a small island with one of the highest population densities in the world, the country feels full and our social cohesion is under strain, consequently the majority of the electorate wants immigration to be severely curbed. Politicians of all parties have promised to deliver this and then utterly failed to do so.
A Labour government is pushing through £5 Billion of Welfare cuts by the end of the Parliament causing great anxiety to genuinely sick and disabled people while in the same breath stumping up over £5 Billion annually to handle the current asylum workload with still a backlog of over 100,000 applications and more arriving by the day plus over £7 Billion annually in Universal credit to foreign nationals that are supposed to be supporting the economy not draining it.
So, given that they will keep coming....
How many will you be prepared to take ?
Is there any point at which you would stop?
What will be the impact on our Welfare and Health provision ?
What is your solution ?
