You could be right. If anyone who isn’t happy with their lot makes it to Calais then we’ll keep taking them in. Great message to send out to the world. Britain is open to anyone and everyone to come here. No questions asked. Get to Calais, you’re in. No control of it, no say. An open door.

COYP

Shouldn’t he be charged with manslaughter? Like the Irish lorry driver

How many do you house then?

Just another person who doesn't live with the consequences complaining about those who have in the past or do now....and who don't like rioting, increased crime and rocketing welfare.

If this was on their doorstep they would he squealing and buy more locks for their doors but because it's out of sight it becomes conceptual for them and so it's an opportunity to virtue signal.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It seems kind of disproportionate, and I only get my information from the media.
My father-in-law worked all his life in the police force. In retirement he lived in a housing association flat. The Council came to assess his dwellings and they told him quite bluntly, "his pension put him just over the threshold for assistance. He would have been better-off not working at all"

So when someone who has contributed to The System all his working-life gets 'done-over', it raises a few concerns that people with no right to reside in the UK (and have made no contributions to the UK economy), seem to get housing and Benefits automatically.

And not only are the (mainly) young men of fighting/working age, but once they land and get refugee status, that automatically gives their wives and children rights to reside in the UK.

So in the beginnings of the CV19 decline and seeing pending increasing taxation and unemployment, isn't it bewildering that the UK seems to have funds to support additional drains on financial resources ?

just a point of view

I disengage, I turn the page.

Where are the riots? Cos I'm looking out my window and I can't see anything...

There are issues in Germany of course. The fact they still wear lederhosen as just one. But then we have enough problems as it is without worrying about refugees.

One thing I do see when I look out my window is 'For Sale' and 'To Let' signs going up almost daily. Why is that? Surely it's not because refugees are arriving with the 50k required to slap a deposit down. Maybe it's because London has essentially become a money laundering capital of the world, where billionaires buy shell companies, buy up property, pay no tax and trade their untaxable assets on the stock market?

That shady network - I'm currently reading the excellent 'Moneyland' by Oliver Burrough, so can't claim this is my own knowledge - comprises an economy which is the 3rd largest in the world. Offshore money, funneled through principlaities that ensures the rich steal money from us and pay nothing back, and is run straight through the city of london.

Let's think rationally for a second. What could be causing our society more harm? a few thousand refugees drowning in the med, some of whom may arrive here and live in a hostel for a few months before their asylum hearing? Or a global keptocratic elite, from the most corrupt countries in the world, who together possess trillions of pounds in untaxed wealth, who have bought up the vast majority of central London, and have access to politicians, the media and anyone else they care to possess?

I'll leave it as an open question, because I'm genuinely intrigued at what you answer.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4