May does a Merkle?

[manhill]

News says she will agree to take in migrants (on top of asylum seekers?).

'Hey Indugu, have you heard the news off the telegraph? Great white Mother in London is inviting us over. Get yourself into town and buy some warm clothes and trainers, we're off to the promised land'.

 

[Timmy_45]

I don't think it's anything like the surge or scale Merkles comment of "We've got room for 600,000 more" caused.

 

[RobFZS]

Just makes you wonder, how bad can France be for people to prefer to live in shanty towns waiting to get to the Uk, rather than stay in France to live and work..

 

[Timmy_45]

I think they, and the Spanish pretty much move them on and point them in our general direction saying "go to the UK, you'll get a free house and money there".

I recall listening to a R4 interview with an "assylum" seeker in France who said when asked why he wanted to go to the UK, exactly that.

 

[RobFZS]

Jokes on them if they want to wipe arses for 5 quid an hour and do shite jobs, thats the only reason leftists want them here.

 

[Timmy_45]

Problem is they also use the various public services, so for example the NHS is massively over stretched in particular A&E, in the SE in particular this is because mobile immigrants without a permanent address tend to head straight to A&E for any issue at all, as opposed to a GP.

I guess it does then give the Leftists an excuse to scream that the NHS is in crises because it's underfunded as opposed to having to treat 3m extra people who've moved here in the last decade.

 

[Muck Spreader]

There are no more or less migrants coming to the UK than any other major European countries. As a % of the population in 2016 non EU migrants made up:-

UK 8.3%
France 8.5%
Germany 8.0%
Sweden 11.6%
Ireland 5.3%
Holland 8.8%
Spain 8.5%
Italy 6.7%
(source EMN)
Maybe Ireland should be encouraged to takes some more

 

[Timmy_45]

There are no more or less migrants coming to the UK than any other major European countries. As a % of the population in 2016 non EU migrants made up:-

UK 8.3%
France 8.5%
Germany 8.0%
Sweden 11.6%
Ireland 5.3%
Holland 8.8%
Spain 8.5%
Italy 6.7%
(source EMN)
Maybe Ireland should be encouraged to takes some more

It's not just external EU migrants, most of the flood of migrants into the UK since in the past couple of decades has been from the newly enlarged EU. So the above figures ignore that. That was the whole point of Brexit for many people. Uncontrolled immigration from anywhere WITHIN the EU.

 

[manhill]

There are no more or less migrants coming to the UK than any other major European countries. As a % of the population in 2016 non EU migrants made up:-

UK 8.3%
France 8.5%
Germany 8.0%
Sweden 11.6%
Ireland 5.3%
Holland 8.8%
Spain 8.5%
Italy 6.7%
(source EMN)
Maybe Ireland should be encouraged to takes some more

What about the rest of the EU?

 

[manhill]

It's not just external EU migrants, most of the flood of migrants into the UK since in the past couple of decades has been from the newly enlarged EU. So the above figures ignore that. That was the whole point of Brexit for many people. Uncontrolled immigration from anywhere WITHIN the EU.

How do you know that? Do you think that was the case? I think control of immigration was what people voted for, not just immigration from the EU.

 

[Ashtree]

There are no more or less migrants coming to the UK than any other major European countries. As a % of the population in 2016 non EU migrants made up:-

UK 8.3%
France 8.5%
Germany 8.0%
Sweden 11.6%
Ireland 5.3%
Holland 8.8%
Spain 8.5%
Italy 6.7%
(source EMN)
Maybe Ireland should be encouraged to takes some more

We are furiously building emergency accommodation for the hoards of refugees fleeing Britain once Brexit reality hits.

Welcome!!!

 

[Timmy_45]

How do you know that? Do you think that was the case? I think control of immigration was what people voted for, not just immigration from the EU.

Because it was such a concern that Cameron made repeated attempts to secure a temporary break on EU migration to which the response was a shrug. And here we are. Leaving the EU.

 

[Muck Spreader]

What about the rest of the EU?

Your thread is about none EU nationals isn't it. Eu nationals don't have to smuggle themselves into the UK yet

 

[baabaa]

There are no more or less migrants coming to the UK than any other major European countries. As a % of the population in 2016 non EU migrants made up:-

UK 8.3%
France 8.5%
Germany 8.0%
Sweden 11.6%
Ireland 5.3%
Holland 8.8%
Spain 8.5%
Italy 6.7%
(source EMN)
Maybe Ireland should be encouraged to takes some more

and for
hungary?
poland?
czhech republic?

 

[Muck Spreader]

We are furiously building emergency accommodation for the hoards of refugees fleeing Britain once Brexit reality hits.

Welcome!!!

You've already filled all those empty houses built in the boom then.

 

[Muck Spreader]

and for
hungary?
poland?
czhech republic?

What about them? If you have trekked across the Sahara and swam the Med I doubt you have your heart set on a new life in Hungary.

 

[Timmy_45]

What about them? If you have trekked across the Sahara and swam the Med I doubt you have your heart set on a new life in Hungary.

Haha good luck to them if they tried it. They simply won't tolerate them in Eastern Europe. Highly ironic if you think about it.

 

[baabaa]

What about them? If you have trekked across the Sahara and swam the Med I doubt you have your heart set on a new life in Hungary.

i thought europe was united
immigration quotas not apply equally?

 

[Muck Spreader]

i thought europe was united
immigration quotas not apply equally?

Just as well for the UK, or they would have to take double what they have taken.

 

[Henarar]

We are furiously building emergency accommodation for the hoards of refugees fleeing Britain once Brexit reality hits.

Welcome!!!

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