Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
https://eastasiaforum.org/2024/01/12/solving-vietnams-social-protection-sustainability-problem/
Because historically in any country turning from lack of development into industrialised 'modernity' with formal employment and some sort of universal health care, education and social 'safety net', the first thing a burgeoning middle class does is get a ticket out rather than waiting for their own society to catch up.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,167
Iraqi Channel migrant avoids deportation over lost ID
'The man, who arrived in the UK illegally by small boat, was previously refused asylum in Italy and Sweden' (Telegraph)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14021149/Illegal-Iraqi-migrant-small-boat-avoids-deportation-lost-ID.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
“Once the asylum seeker is given approval to stay in the UK, it then falls on the local authority to cover costs such as housing. It can cost councils up to £15,000 a week to fund one child. People deserve to know what is going on.”
So now you know….
Tony Smith CBE
Former DG UKBF and Senior Director UKBA.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Will this ever becsolved?
I think not,
Gives our Bob plenty to put in here daily
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Yup. At least Labour have stopped putting the poor migrants on that dreadful barge.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14034971/Migrant-hotel-king-cashed-asylum-seeker-crisis-immigration-industry-billionaire.html
If only there were safe and legal routes to bring half of Africa to what used to be my country ...............
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
To continue the Captains thought process.
We have had a huge number of immigrants from Europe and Asia in the past who have been of benefit to this country, Africa now thinks it is their turn.
I do not care where they come from, I just wish their entry was by safe legal means and we had a sensible fast way of returning those deemed as undesirables.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
This is an issue that past governments have not solved .
The present Govt has no idea how to solve
And on it goes .....
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
How on earth anyone can still believe that recent governments have sought and failed to find 'solutions' to this 'issue' is a mystery that can only be solved by Shaggy Rogers.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,167
Starmer gives speech about ‘severity’ of illegal migration threat. (From 21.00 onwards roughly to avoid the bagpipes!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
And Alp's response (Total disclosure - I used to work with Alp Mehmet)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,167
‘The real issue is the system. The Home Office seems unwilling or unable to remove those with no right to be here.’
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
In which Paddington's young cousins are attacked at school by a 'Welshman' , and Paddington gets imprisoned for tweeting about it
https://news.sky.com/story/how-paddington-in-peru-promotes-message-of-kindness-towards-asylum-seekers-13250123?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Where YOUR money is going:-
N.B.The amount of OVERSEAS AID spent on refugees and asylum seekers this year (24/25)on course to hit £3.6bn (creative accountancy?).
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/12/uk-overseas-aid-budget-faces-900m-raid-to-pay-for-housing-asylum-seekers
(Home Office data suggests average hotel costs for asylum seekers were at £140 per person per night in February, or £51,000 per year, so it would be cheaper to enroll them as boarders at a good public school even with the 20% VAT charge?
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Matey likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
If the government can afford £140 a night for a foreigner/illegal immigrant how come they can not do the same for the deserving homeless born here, some of them having been brought up in care nearly all their lives.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
'Welcome to Labour world. Ministers will give asylum to illegal immigrants they should deport, hiding the costs in the welfare system and local authority budgets, and boast that this will free up cash for aid spending overseas'.
Nick Timothy MP
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Some interesting statistics here:-
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/12/only-56-of-births-last-year-were-white-british/
(For comparison according to the 2021 Census, 94.9% of people in the Dover District identified as white which is the same as for the UK THIRTY YEARS AGO).
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
