You Gov Poll on migrants

Publisise it mate.
Be an advocate.
The "media" cant make headlines with humanity.

I have, as I have with the various UK expats in Europe and EU citizens in the UK groups, who have been treated appallingly for 4 years, hence the brain drain now.
 
The video doesn’t really explain why they are being priced out of their status? Does anybody know what the costs are that they are speaking of?
 
NHS surcharge of £2500 per year?
They don’t have to pay that if they are granted indefinite leave to remain - however I guess they are also priced out of applying for indefinite leave to remain as per the post on citizenship fees.

All seems very complex and designed to frustrate.
 
That's if you can pass the citizenship test. Every time I took one of the sample ones I failed it miserably.
I know someone who took it - really odd questions that I’m guessing 80per cent of UK citizens would not get right!!!
 
Only just managed to get back on the site, for some reason.

My claim about France being safe is based on personal experience. For over 20 years, I've been involved in a refugee support charity, which smuggles people in danger out of one of the most brutal regimes in the world, then keeps them safe while applying for asylum in various countries. We got thousands out and got them all asylum status, sometimes in the most unlikely countries. France was much more welcoming (as was Germany) than the UK. Our refugees had to take asylum wherever we could get it, not where they fancied it. The UK Government under Tony Blair was hostile, eventually forcing us to wind up the English charity and start again in Scotland. Good trading relationships with despots was more important to him than human rights.

We never put anyone in a boat, so no-one died.
 
Thankfully Mrs Fufkin did pass the UK citizenship test, but I failed all the sample tests. The funniest part was the oral exam she had to take, even though English is her native language. The examiner asked her in a very slow, deliberate voice (as you might if the person you were asking had only a basic grasp of a language) "and where are you from?" She was a little taken aback when my wife answered in a similarly slow and deliberate manner "New York, and where are you from?"
 
Zaphod

Read the thread on the old board ‘FAO ROB’. You could’ve been on the naughty boy step like boromike85 and Facefuzz.
 
Only just managed to get back on the site, for some reason.

My claim about France being safe is based on personal experience. For over 20 years, I've been involved in a refugee support charity, which smuggles people in danger out of one of the most brutal regimes in the world, then keeps them safe while applying for asylum in various countries. We got thousands out and got them all asylum status, sometimes in the most unlikely countries. France was much more welcoming (as was Germany) than the UK. Our refugees had to take asylum wherever we could get it, not where they fancied it. The UK Government under Tony Blair was hostile, eventually forcing us to wind up the English charity and start again in Scotland. Good trading relationships with despots was more important to him than human rights.

We never put anyone in a boat, so no-one died.

But do you accept these people are within their rights?

https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country/
 
Think it’s only short term. The board would be boring without members with different views. Right or wrongly
 
Drat. I like Mike. Talks a lot of rubbish often and he really doesn't like me, but I like to hear the other side.

BoroMike is all indignant at the moment claiming he's being singled out for having 'different views'. He describes himself as a 'mathematician' and thinks statistics are the answer to everything. Unfortunately for him he displays no common sense or compassion when discussing the migrant issue. Pointing this out to him only leads to insults such as "This is all just nonsense", "If you're too afraid to have an adult conversation then why bother?", "You are contributing nothing","It is childish and divisive" etc. etc.
 
BoroMike is all indignant at the moment claiming he's being singled out for having 'different views'. He describes himself as a 'mathematician' and thinks statistics are the answer to everything. Unfortunately for him he displays no common sense or compassion when discussing the migrant issue. Pointing this out to him only leads to insults such as "This is all just nonsense", "If you're too afraid to have an adult conversation then why bother?", "You are contributing nothing","It is childish and divisive" etc. etc.

Interesting that he's a mathematician.
 
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