@Iain ********

that's 45,000 too many. The UK is already an overcrowded country and it's putting a strain on resources.

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@Jeff ******

I've crossed the channel many times but I had a passport and a ticket. I didn't throw my passport away before I climbed into the dinghy.

@Jeff ******

it leaves a route for young Romanians without families to join their local gangs in the UK. If they were so desperate to get away from some kind of threat why are so many of these immigrants who thought that the streets would be paved with gold are now wanting to go back home?

@Tim ********

woke (as it applies now for the intolerant liberal left)

Woke = cancel culture, censorship, control of the population, inclusiveness which actually means you are included unless you disagree with me for which you will be excluded, the constant need to be offended, intolerance of free speech, etc etc.

That is the reality of what wokeness means today. In former times it would have meant equality within the context of social democratic ideology. Have you not been observing what has been going on in the last few years? And I didn't get that from The Daily Mail 😄

@Tim ********

now you are just being naive together with your knee-jerk reaction of using the racism card which seems to be applied to everything as far as the woke left are concerned. Furthermore you have absolutely no idea what my sources are. I don't take much notice of assumptions and you are making many.

@Tim ********

I'm not a racist. Why would you think that? Can you say something about the Romanian crime gangs which seem to be bolstering their numbers with Romanians who have no reason to seek asylum from what is happening in Romania? The typical profile of genuine refugees includes families. Why are they mostly absent in the migration across the channel to the UK. What I really resent is you implying that I'm a racist. That's just lazy nonsense.

@Tim ********

what the heck are you talking about? 😄

@Greg ********

it takes me about 30 minutes every year at the immigration office. Even if you use an agent you will still have to go to your bank to get the statement. So you're telling someone who doesn't have the money for an agent but they do have 800k to put in the bank that they shouldn't be in Thailand? But If you don't have the 800k but you do have the money for an agent then that's just fine because the agent can get you the Visa without the 800k and and that's actually illegal. Which means you will be stuck with that agent forever. If you then subsequently want to do it yourself immigration will start asking you all sorts of uncomfortable questions.

@Lynnette ******

yes that's true, but they can't process the applications faster than they arrive which is why the UK population has increased by 1.2 million the last 3 years.

@Roger *********

well that's rather silly. Boatloads of young working age men without women or children coming across the channel in a boat to the UK. Do you think they are legally seeking asylum? From Romania? Lol. I vote we send them all to Australia. 😄