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The madness of Labour's asylum policy continues

sickofit | 22.01.2003 17:54

People are learning the hard way about the consequences of Labour's asylum policy; the policy of allowing the continuing flood of economic migrants, to be pampered with benefits and when asylum claims are refused for so many to simply disappear into their own communities.

The madness of Labour's asylum policy continues.

People are learning the hard way about the consequences of Labour's asylum policy; the policy of allowing the continuing flood of economic migrants, to be pampered with benefits and when asylum claims are refused for so many to simply disappear into their own communities.

Despite Labour Minister's claims to the contrary, the fact remains Britain is soft on asylum which is why so many find their way onto our islands. Today the news emerges that thousands of refugees are being assigned to already overburdened GPs by health authorities each month leaving GPs with little option but to remove other patients from their registers.

The problems emerged after an 88-year-old widow in Stoke was turned away from a surgery she had attended all her life because her doctor had been ordered to take residents of a nearby refugee centre. Her name was one of 20 removed at random to make way for residents of a nearby asylum seeker hostel and will be forced to travel 2 miles to a newly assigned doctor in Hanley.

If this wasn't enough, to add insult to injury reports emerged over the weekend that some of Britain's historic houses and some luxury hotels are being sought to accommodate more migrants. So clearly Blair and Blunkett are not considering sealing our national borders for the foreseable future. Defiant locals are however fighting back where they can; a group of villagers from the Lincolnshire village of Caythorpe yesterday protested outside Caythorpe Court, a former agricultural college which the Home Office has pencilled in for acting as housing for migrants.

While other western European countries such as Denmark, France and Italy are dealing with their immigration problems in ways more in keeping with the demands of the electorate who have voted in the past 2 years for nationalist anti-immigration parties, Labour continues to welcome all arrive here with a begging bowl. The message for Labour is clear; Britons will not vote for the party while it continues to squander taxpayers' hard earned cash on unwelcome and unwanted migrants. The elections coming up in May will demonstrate that most clearly.

sickofit

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Don't answer

22.01.2003 18:04

Just wait for IMC to remove the fascist article.

anti-fasc


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22.01.2003 18:05

Just wait for IMC to remove the fascist article.

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A Tough Question For The Left

22.01.2003 18:22

The Asylum situation is getting out of hand, if not in reality then defiantly in the press and the public’s eye. It is an issue that provides the right with limitless fuel for their cause and puts the left in a tough spot over how to handle it. Sealing the borders is over the top and will result in the rejection of countless thousands of people desperately seeking aid, yet allowing the situation to continue will see some of them take advantage of our current policy whilst draining tax payers resources and fueling the right’s efforts for support.

On another note I have no idea how the press have managed to make the idea of being an asylum seeker almost appealing with stories of comfortable accommodation, cars and jobs. I have no idea what it is like to have to move into a foreign country on asylum but I wouldn’t fancy it. Especially onto one where you are instantly unwelcome by the people if not the laws.

karic


What are you afraid of?

22.01.2003 18:27

Why would IMC censor an attack on the left? Why would they want to remove all view points except thier own? I thought this was a forum for discussion, is it not?

karic


It's not hard

22.01.2003 20:31

White idiot feels he isn't getting his fair share. What a dickhead. If we weren't plundering everybody else nobody would need to, or want to, come here. Do you understand that? Can't you grasp the fact that the West, and more recently the U.S. particularly, has been exercising a policy of 'beggar thy neighbour' the world over? Can't you grasp the fact that the U.S. economic starvation of the U.S.S.R. (which it has left to drown in its own vomit) coupled with the climate destabilisation of our Industrial revolution, the spread of A.I.D.S. (a western disease) and the economic incarceration of the entire continant by the profit hungry corporate cartels has left a pretty fucking big reason for people to leave their countries.

I wouldn't have a problem with being anti economic immigration so long as we were doing our upmost to foster global economic equality and not being such blatent international criminals - only our own government surveys show our workforce is becoming desperately underskilled (too many thick as pig shit white scum clogging up the education system probably), the need to immigration is critical.

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assylum truths

22.01.2003 21:18

I have a friend who is an asylum seeker(sighthill) ,he speaks 5 languages a very intellegent man but is not allowed to work. He and others like him dont have cars there not even alowed a tv with out permision .The people who are ment to keep an eye on them have 24 hour access to there houses can demand to see there documents at any time ,question them when anything new appears in there house .Often the intimidate and bully them .
Dont listen to the racist crap coming from the right wing
press or british nazi scum .If you are waiting for a house
or dont feel you are getting enough benifits or shit hospital service its the fault of the bloody rulers of the country and this system we live in .We are ment to be the fourth richest country in the world.

engelbert


oh dear another one

22.01.2003 22:21

really could not be bothered to respond to this durge so i just niped off to nice people at the refugee council and pasted this.

BIN THE BNP

Even within the EU, the UK ranked 10th in terms of asylum applications in relation to the overall population in 2001. The truth about refugee movements is the world's poorest countries both produce and bear responsibility for most refugees. During 1992-2001, 86 per cent of the world's estimated 12 million refugees originated from developing countries, whilst such countries provided asylum to 72 per cent of the global population (source: UNHCR). If you consider global refugee and asylum seeking populations in relation to the host country's size, population and wealth, the UK ranks 32nd. Taking the greatest burden are Iran, Burundi and Guinea.
A recent MORI poll demonstrates the impact of such misinformation, showing that people vastly overestimate the numbers of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK - on average people think that 23% of the world's refugees and asylum seekers are in the UK, more than 10 time greater than the reality, which is actually less than 2%.
The idea that Britain or indeed any other European country is a 'soft touch' is simply not true. As European countries from Denmark and Holland to Switzerland introduce increasingly tougher immigration controls, it is extremely difficult to gain entry to Europe at all. If we compare the numbers of asylum seekers granted protection in the UK with those in Canada, the UK emerges as far from being a 'soft touch'. In 2001, Canada granted protection to 97% of Afghan asylum applicants, where the UK granted only 19%. Somali applicants had a 92% success rate in Canada, where in the UK it was only 34%. 85% of Colombian applicants in Canada were granted protection, against a mere 3% in the UK.

golgi