Captain Haddock
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Shocked I tell you, shocked.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/hundreds-citizens-apply-asylum-uk-32114177"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A new report has revealed that the UK taxpayer has forked out almost £24billion on jobless legal migrants who contribute nothing to the economy since 2020.
The number does not include international students who are discounted from the “economically inactive” category but if they were added the total cost would be an eye-watering £36billion.
The findings will fuel concerns that the UK's porous legal migration is being used for so-called benefits tourism with millions arriving and claiming housing benefit, Universal Credit, child benefit and other handouts including the use of the NHS and schools without contributing to the country.A new report has revealed that the UK taxpayer has forked out almost £24billion on jobless legal migrants who contribute nothing to the economy since 2020.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1868029/migrant-crisis-economically-inactive-reportMatey and victor matcham like this
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"Robert Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control said: “These findings show that mass migration is far from the economic panacea that the advocates of open borders purport it to be.""
The "open borders" allowed people to enter the UK and contribute. Now we have stopped all the hard working Europeans coming in and are left with just the benefits claimants?
D'oh!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Interesting article here from Neil O'Brien MP who has a better overview of immigration than most:-
'New data from my FOI request underlines the diversity of migrant outcomes & the argument for a more selective approach'
https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/thinking-about-the-costs-and-benefits
Meanwhile at London City Airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13101995/Hundreds-high-risk-flights-land-UK-unchecked-Borders-watchdog-warning-immigration.html"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Then someone needs to get the push at the home office,he was doing his job and sounds like he was good at it.a pen pusher pocking his noise in.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Staggering fact: More people came to Britain in 2022 than between 1980 and 2000 combined.
Net migration 2022: 745,000
Net migration 1980-2000: 609,00
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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At first I thought 'this must be because some major UK political event happened in the late 90s the effects of which have been relentlessly copied, defended and enforced by all succeeding political administrations'.
But then I thought 'this cannot be true because we have reds and blues and oranges, and they're all very different'.
So it must be something else.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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GB News I know, but still worth a watch?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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What?
Cleverley: we must reduce world conflict by sending gazillions of your £££s to conflict hotspots.
Because sending gazillions of your £££s (and weapons, munitions, armour, intelligence, ships, etc.,) to conflict hotspots like Ukraine and West Asia worked?
Astonishing.
Has there ever been anyone in government with a more unsuitable surname?
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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It all seems to myself all you need to get the sack from government is know what you are talking about and tell the truth.
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BREAKING: Government granted asylum to 62,336 people last year - the highest ever recorded.
( Canterbury 55,087 Population [2021])
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LATEST
337,240 work visas granted in 2023, 26% UP on 2022.
( Population East Riding of Yorkshire 327,400)
279,131 grants to dependants, 80% UP on 2022.
(Population Nottingham 278,700)
Migration is too high, says party in charge of migration for 14 years
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/migration-is-too-high-says-party-in-charge-of-migration-for-14-years/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=LNCH%20%2020240229%20%20House%20ads%20%20HT+CID_9f53eb79570c140c25224f28a40ac2a0"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Home Office releases 'great report dump' submitted by chief borders inspector before his sacking.
A No 10 spokeswoman (Mrs Pinoccho with the long nose?) said: "We wanted to publish them as swiftly as possible following the necessary and appropriate due diligence."
Here are the main points so far:
On the asylum case processing:
In November 2023, the Home Office changed its guidance to asylum seekers from saying a decision on their claim would be made within six months to "as soon as possible". At the time there had not been a published service standard in place for five years.
The focus on clearing the legacy backlog at "all costs" impacted quality of interviews and decisions - having the potential to add to the appeals queue .
60% of decision makers who responded to the inspection survey said they wanted to leave their role as soon as possible or within the next year, stating that the pressure to meet targets affected their mental health.
Children were not given adequate breaks after "speaking about traumatic events" during claimant interviews.
On e-passport gates:
On staffing at ePassport gates the report said Border Force officers "are often distracted from their core operational activity" and roving officers are not always deployed, with posts sometimes "left unmanned while officers signalled for attention from their managers."
The report said the staffing situation was !unacceptable and needs to be addressed urgently," with "basic stuff not being done well."
On using hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeker children:
The report raised serious safeguarding concerns around DBS checks at hotels were children are being housed, saying at one hotel it visited, the copies of the certificates were poor and had dates of issue missing.
The manager at this hotel "demonstrated a concerning lack of general safeguarding awareness", the report said, and had stated that as the certificates did not expire, they didn’t consider it necessary for further renewal as, “I know them, and I think they are okay".
The report criticised the Home Office for not providing any guidance to hotel providers on when a DBS check should be renewed.
The report said "a fundamental gap still exists in terms of defining who is ultimately responsible for the children and for safeguarding decisions in hotels, given there is no corporate parent or designated safeguarding lead".
Hotels visited by inspectors had health and safety issues including an electric fan being used with the guard missing exposing the rotating blades , a loose carpet to the landing at the top of the main steep staircase presenting a significant tripping hazard and missing window restrictors in a ground floor bathroom
From the overall annual report:
Mr Neal did not meet the Home Secretary until he was in the job for 18 months
He said Home Office data is “inexcusably awful”.
He said the division between policy and operational delivery is "a stark one" and being able to motivate large groups of people to deliver a plan."is not a skillset that I find in abundance in the Home Office".
More to come!
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