Yvette Cooper
Britain can’t stop small boats by shouting at the sea
The Home Sec manages an entire newspaper column about protecting this island nation from illegitimate invaders and not once does she metnion the Navy.
That’s what it’s there for, Love. To stop the dastards comin’ over the water. Been doing it a few centuries now too – might want to give it a thought?
Does she also forget to mention our unique levels of incentive including free housing, healthcare, money, immunity from many crimes, unparalleled job opportunities in the distribution industries (including drugs) and a gratis trip across 90% of the channel courtesy of RNLI etc etc .
Britain could stop small boats tomorrow by issuing work permits with no recourse to public funds to any asylum seekers. Take away the free housing and benefits and none would come.
I agree with Sam Jones. Before being eligible permanent leave to remain and the possibility of citizenship, you have to have at least five years of no sponging from the benefits system, no NHS care beyond A&E, been in full time work, paying taxes, no criminal activity and the ability to pay for health insurance.
Or should that be ten years?
Why has she changed her view on this? Wasn’t she one of the original bag of turnips photographed holding a “Refugees Welcome Here” sign?
Note how she also focuses on stopping the small boats crossing the channel, and how her boss is adenoidally determined to “sbash the gags”. BBC front page reports on him liaising with interpol and behaving like a zealous administrator to set up new more effective bodies to end this “vile trade”.
But the lives lost in the channel, tragic as they are, are relatively tiny in number. There are rare health conditions which claim more lives. They are re-framing the issue to focus on one small area of immigration rather than immigration per se. Rudakubana’s parents didn’t arrive on a dinghy. Nor did most of those whose presence degrades our quality of life.
This is performative politics. “Refugees still welcome here, but please find another route because people smugglers are nasty”.
Talking of our navy, Lammy is now inisisting we should compensate *African* countries for slavery. The very countries that were the *SOURCE* of slavery, that our navy invaded and conquored *SPECICIALLY* because they were the *source* of slavery, and the refused to stop doing it.
SHEESH!!
Make it 18 years of being in full-time work or being a child, and then we can give new arrivals the same waiting period as natives.
I would be happily let the boats land or be towed to a suitable destination where they would find themselves surrounded by friendly troops offering them a nice cup of tea before taking their fingerprints and DNA and loading them onto the first of the transport that would have them back in their country of origin, or if they choose, Rwanda within a week. The Rwanda choice would only be available for first offenders.
Needless to say illegal entry attempts by small boat from a safe destination would mean an automatic lifetime ban from asylum.
I suspect it would become a very low cost system to run after a couple of weeks.
To be fair, they’ve tried doing nothing and it hasn’t worked…
To ‘smash the gangs’ ™/ stop illegal immigration, we should just copy the tried and trusted methods we used to smash the drugs gangs and stop illegal drugs.
Oh, hang on…..
It’s simple. Come here illegally and you get nothing. When you come to the notice of the authorities (and you will – Health, Plod, Welfare, etc) you will be deported. Period. No if’s, no but’s, no ‘knock out a kid and we’ll let you stay’ bollocks, you will go.
This is never going to happen under Liebour or the Tories of course………
That’s what it’s there for, Love. To stop the dastards comin’ over the water
The Royal Navy:
Royal Navy personnel are being told to introduce themselves with their pronouns before meetings in official guidance seen by The Telegraph.
A guide on trans and non-binary awareness tells staff: “Introducing yourself with your pronouns at the start of meetings and interactions is a good way to be inclusive.”
The guidance, available on the Royal Navy intranet, says: “Some people do not associate with gender binary and may use different pronouns like they/them or neo-pronouns like ze/hir/hirs. You should use the pronoun that a person shares with you.”
Their pronouns are poof/ters.
Addolff @9:13 am
Sounds like a nice simple easy and obvious solution.
@Steve,
Re the Royal Navy using their pronouns to introduce themselves, “Admiral” seems a good start.
(Sarcasm from an ex squaddie).
Hey, hey TTK, how many gangs did you smash today?
Make it a criminal offence to cross the Channel illegally.
A criminal record means you will never qualify for citizenship, family reunion, free healthcare, council housing…
Philip,
Under the current system a criminal conviction is not a barrier to becoming a British citizen, as long as the sentence was for less than four years in prison.
And needless to say, a criminal conviction doesn’t impede your access to NHS services. You’d have more luck getting smokers banned from NHS care than getting convicts banned.
Penseivat – they’re all Rear Admirals in the navy.
A leaked briefing paper has suggested all Navy personnel could be forced to attend online training sessions regarding how climate change may impact defence.
It also reveals the Navy’s climate change and sustainability unit is ‘exploring opportunities’ to pay for sailors to study postgraduate courses on global warming.
Britain’s warships could also be boarded by environmental scientists for them to conduct research, the paper says.
While the Royal Navy is studying tranny pronouns and pathetic fallacy, the Chinese Navy is studying how to sink Western ships.
Make it a criminal offence to cross the Channel illegally.
As far as I’m aware, it’s always been a criminal offence.
might want to give it a thought?
Is our beloved Home Sec capable of thought? I’ve seen precious little evidence, to date.
jgh @ 8:22 am
I naturally feel that the Africans should pay YOU reparations because of all the slaves they dumped on you. And others of course.
But if you shout at their boats, with a 5 incher . . .
How do you know that Spud only has a 5 incher?
@philip – “Make it a criminal offence to cross the Channel illegally.”
The problem with that foolish sentiment is that by the very definition of illegal, it must already be a driminal offence.