Thats a very Brave and assumptive statement to say
"Let's be frank, there are a huge number of people who would happily get rid of anyone who isn't straight and white from the country."
That makes a HUGE number of us Racist and Homophobic then
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What is this Huge number and where did you get the figures from or is this just how the people on the left see the rest of people who may not agree with their sentiments.
I'm not at all accusing you of such at all. I'll pipe down here - I don't mean any offence to anyone.
I'm just saying go have a look around Facebook, for instance. Some of the groups (who have tens of thousands of people in) are blatantly racist and homophobic.
I'm not left wing at all. Other than being fairly "woke" (in that I have a lot of black and gay friends) anything but. But I'm seeing right through the current right wing rhetoric.
Let's deal with the problems the country is experiencing. It's not boat people.
So if 685,000 people came to live here, can you explain why 29,000 are here illegally living in hotels and barges costing millions of pounds a day when the other 655,000 cost nothing how does that work, don't get me wrong i wish no one any harm i am not racist i just need someone to explain how it works and why
And that's exactly my point. Get them out to work. Get them paying their way whilst we decide what to do with them.
I'd bet a decent chunk of those people don't want to be in these pits, any more than we want them there.
11 million people of working age are not working. Of those, 1.4 million are officially "unemployed". There were 893,000 vacancies last month.
Does no-one care about those numbers? Are we still focusing on the 29,000?
By the way, I'm not saying "ignore them, let them come". I'm just saying that so far we've spent £240 million to Rwanda to send absolutely no-one there. Add that to the tens of millions that we've supposedly spent trying to fix this.
Perhaps it's time to let someone else have a go.