Re: Stopping the boats

Mike Fleming wrote:
> 
> On 04/06/2024 21:05, Citizen Smith wrote:
> > 
> > It seems to the very naive me that if the French would just take them back then
> > the trafficking would stop in a heartbeat because there'd be no point in it. Am
> > I missing something?  Is this not being suggested anywhere because the French
> > don't want them back and we don't want to upset them?
> 
> It used to be that they did take them back because the UK was part of 
> the Dublin Agreement which said they could be taken back. Since a load 
> of idiots voted for Brexit, the UK is no longer in the Dublin agreement, 
> so as any asylum seekers crossing in boats could no longer be sent back 
> to France, all of a sudden that's how they started coming over. A vote 
> for Brexit was a vote for small boats.

Just wondering, did you know this could happen in the run up to Brexit 
referendum? It's just I don't remember anyone saying anything about it.

> Incidentally, most asylum claims 
> are allowed, most of those that aren't and are appealed are subsequently 
> allowed, and there's over 50 times as many immigrants coming in on visas 
> as there are small boat refugees.

Isn't that another reason they risk drowning, knowing that their application 
will almost certainly be allowed?

> But never mind, as long as the twenty 
> or thirty thousand poor bastards risking drowning by crossing the 
> Channel can be blamed for the collapse of the NHS, the shortage of 
> housing, the crumbling schools, the cost of living crisis, etc, then 
> politicians will want them coming in as a distraction.

They are being blamed for all that? Wow.