Protest by Asylum Seekers

Esqui

I stand corrected then!

Optimist

Esqui wrote: »

Failed asylum seekers cannot access free NHS treatment. Supreme Court ruled on that last year.

Partly true, it was actually the Court of Appeal to be pedantic and they said that failed asylum seekers would not pass the residence test required for NHS treatment, however the previous Government then said that they would allow them to use NHS services.

alanrp123

trumpton wrote: »

Earlier someone mentioned the Big Issue. I have bought the BI almost every week since it started printing. Each week they do an interview/profile of a Big Issue seller. A few weeks ago it was a Romanian woman with 3 kids (no dad around) who was saying how much better the UK was than Romania. Here she had a house she shared with another Romanian woman with 3 kids and no dad around as well, access to health services etc. etc.

If that isn't economic migration, which the UK doesn't need and cannot afford, I don't know what is. And you don't need to be homeless to sell the BI either now it seems.

It is noticeable that all the Big Issue sellers outside Sainsburys in SW London, are now Romanian Gyypos, they have replaced the UK sellers by threats and violence.
Shame on the Big Issue publishers!!.

trumpton

In my view, it was a huge mistake allowing Romania to join the EU. To me, it was obvious that this would mean a wave of economic immigration for the UK, simply because our benefits system is so generous and they are so poor in comparison. I think the same will happen if/when Turkey join, though perhaps to a lesser degree.

I also don't see why EU workers in the UK can calim UK child benefit for their kids who are back home in Poland, Romania etc. UK child benefit £20, Polish child benefit £3 - much better to claim here rather than at home. How hard will it be to check that the kids really exist?


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/news/2010/10/11/40-000-kids-in-poland-get-uk-child-benefit-115875-22625115/

barbiedoll

Esqui wrote: »

And barbiedoll, we would only allow people seeking asylum from the countries you mention if there was a genuine reason for doing so. But largely, people from those countries would come as regular immigrants, and only be granted citizenship if they had skills to give to the country.

I can't see what "skills" they are bringing to the country to be honest. I spoke to one guy from Algeria who works as a porter in a fish market. Hardly a skilled position, although at least he does work. But how did he get a 2-bedroomed council house? How does he support his family and pay the rent on a house in London? Why are he and his wife entitled to NHS care? They have only been here for just over 12 months so how does that work?
I probably see around 30-40 women per week, and at least 40% are from outside the EU. I very rarely see asylum seekers although I do see an awful lot of "students" :mad:
Of the rest, probably only 10% are "British", i.e born and raised here, that includes black british, mixed race, british born asians and so on, the rest are Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian etc etc. We sometimes feel that we are providing state medical care to the whole of Eastern Europe!

sookipeaspud

Who will pay the rent on the properties I rent to the asylum seekers? I just want my money coming in. Could not care about the opinions of people.

Profits are profits. Money = happy. Simples.

MrsHoneybun

What an intolerant bunch you all are, with some of you borderline racists. It makes me ashamed to be associated with this forum.

tony6403

sookipeaspud wrote: »

Who will pay the rent on the properties I rent to the asylum seekers? I just want my money coming in. Could not care about the opinions of people.

Profits are profits. Money = happy. Simples.

Is there any wonder that this Country is beyond redemption.
I sincerely hope that the austerity measures hit your pocket.

Optimist

MrsHoneybun wrote: »

What an intolerant bunch you all are, with some of you borderline racists. It makes me ashamed to be associated with this forum.

Wow it took five pages before someone leapt in with the unsubstantiated R word...would you care to substantiate this accusation or is it just the usual dogma that people are discussing immigration therefore they must be racist ?

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Optimist wrote: »

Wow it took five pages before someone leapt in with the unsubstantiated R word...would you care to substantiate this accusation or is it just the usual dogma that people are discussing immigration therefore they must be racist ?

That's why we've arrived in such dire straits as far as immigration is concerned it's been so fashionable to condemn anyone that so much complains about immigrtaion as racist when it is no such thing.
There is a lot more to consider than race here and thankfully we all seem to be waking up and realising this.
As for the Eastern Europeans invading the UK they should never have been allowed in the EU in the first place they have nothing to offer and everything to gain.