Oh I am gonna be unpopular here
It isn’t seen as de rigueur to highlight such things as some on here will have you categorised in all sorts of boxes that aren’t true, but I agree with you. The sheer volume of males that are crossing rather than families fleeing war is not going to stop, Climate change will help continue the trend, the more that stay, the more will be encouraged to keep coming.
Getting a routine GP appointment 4 years ago meant ringing up and getting a routine same day appointment, now, it is awaiting a non medic noting your personal bodily matters (hopefully correctly) a medic of sorts then triaging someone elses notes that may not always convey the issue accurately and then awaiting a call from a GP in roughly 4-5 weeks if it is deemed non life threatening. Migrants (i am told) are somewhat fast tracked in certain surgeries as they are in part incentivised by contract according to a local GP’s wife.
Some areas, the balance of males and females will be ‘increasingly strained’ the assumption that they are all fleeing war and persecution is for the birds. This imbalance will only lead to further issues in time. They often lose their passports and other I.D’s en route and on arrival many seem to adopt false narratives to play the system. This is unfair to those genuinely needing our help fleeing wars etc. We have to find a way to deal with this fairly not just for migrants but our indigenous population. To take a stance of open borders is going to increase poverty, strain public services, housing and create hate speech and further right wing fervour it is simply too much of a strain on our economy. I appreciate the need to help where we can, we must where reasonable, but we need to accept that our own poor and more vulnerable citizens are suffering as a result. I get the impression (maybe wrongly, maybe not) that many on here who are taking the moral high ground are reasonably well off and as such wont be always as impacted as say many lower down the salaried scales.
I will finish by saying my part solution is to use our Embassies abroad as posts where asylum has to be claimed, processed and decided before travelling to the UK, but that would need agreements and brexit has not helped, it has made it worse and where is the incentive for other countries to play ball? We are sleep walking into a position where civil unrest will become regular for future generations If someone does not get a grip. Some small part of the migration is on record as being actively encouraged by certain other countries to destabilise. We need to help and do our bit, not be a welcome doormat for anyone that wants to come. However, I don’t feel any political party is brave enough to tackle it as it is becoming almost impossible to do without being seen as extreme.
