Just listened to the BBC Radio Ulster interview with the Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland, Emma Little-Pengelly. I think it was a good response as she was condemning violence, but also acknowledging the problem and catalyst (a lack of social housing) and started talking about how she’ll try and work to create more social housing so people aren’t displaced by migration, etc. I think this was a common sense approach instead of just simply encouraging violence or declaring war on the rioters, which I feel like would just make things worse.

It is true, we should expand social housing. I think everyone can agree with that.

  • mindlesscrollyparrot
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    3 months ago

    You think that the small boats are unchecked? That they are not intercepted and the people detained?

    In any case, that is only illegal because the last government made it so that you cannot claim asylum upon landing. They are not criminals in any other sense.

    • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      They don’t have a right to be here- They’re coming from France, a safe country. They’re not fleeing persecution, they’re just trying to cheat the system. And they’re paying criminal gangs and they keep causing deaths among their own people.

      • mindlesscrollyparrot
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        3 months ago

        Theresa May introduced the Hostile Environment, and Priti Patel made it even more strict. If the Home Office could refuse asylum applications for any reason whatsoever, they would. Despite that, the vast majority of asylum applications are successful.

        So they are not cheating the system and they do have the right to be here.

        Besides which, how many people do you think we’re talking about? Small boats. The clue is in the name. It’s not like Dunkirk out there.

        • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          30k people arrived here in 2023 via small boat.

          Theresa may also lacks common sense immigration policy. She was far too harsh on people wanting to come into this country for good sincere reason

          • mindlesscrollyparrot
            1·
            3 months ago

            You’re quoting the statistic about how many people were stopped on landing or shortly afterwards to tell me how they’re arriving “unchecked”.

            • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              They’re still allowed into the country instead of being deported back to France

              • mindlesscrollyparrot
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                3 months ago

                Because they have valid claims - 67% of claims in 2023 were successful.

                They are not criminals. People who smash gravestones to throw them at policemen, though, they are criminals. We should put them in a prison barge.

                • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  How is their claim valid though if they came from France?

                  People who smash gravestones to throw them at policemen, though, they are criminals. We should put them in a prison barge.

                  I wholeheartedly agree

                  • mindlesscrollyparrot
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    How is their claim not valid if the Home Office allowed it? You think Priti Patel was like “oh, go on then, I’ll turn a blind eye just this once” ?

                    It isn’t the case that they have to claim in the first country they come to. That’s just misinformation.

                    If they spoke French, they would probably claim there. France takes more asylum seekers than the UK, so why would they risk their lives? We didn’t even take our interpreters from Afghanistan.

                    You’d think that Nigel Farage would be as informed as anybody on these topics and he’s getting his information from Andrew Tate. I repeat: they do not have valid concerns; they are just racists rioting.