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Old 29-11-2021, 00:44   #3398
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Re: Britain outside the EU

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Originally Posted by Blackshep View Post
The number of illegals in the UK is in the millions even the home office has given up pretending they know exactly that's the problem.
As of March 2020 the total inward migration to the UK for the previous year was 715,000

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk...fings/sn06077/

Of that figure the number we offered asylum to was 20,339 people

https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...est-statistics

Where we do have people here illegally, I would think that most of it is down to them being here initially via legal immigration routes e.g. visa overstays, and not via any asylum or refugee claims.



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Originally Posted by Blackshep View Post
They don't integrate, they don't adapt, they don't adopt our values and demand we tolerate their culture, religion and traditions even though they have no intention of reciprocating.
That is plainly not true. Do you actually know anyone who has come to the UK from another country?

Most people who've come here that I've met and worked with over my life have taken active interest in their community - a lot of times more so than the 'native' residents including me.

Also - https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.u...nts-in-the-uk/

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A large majority (89% or 7,086,000) of the foreign born living in the UK self-reported speaking English well or very well in the 2011 Census. Just over half of the foreign born population (51%) had English as their main language in 2011. Among the 11% with limited English language skills, 15% said they could not speak English at all (138,000 or 1.6% of the foreign-born population). Among the UK-born population, less than 0.1% reported not being able to speak English well or at all (58,000)
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Make it mandatory to be fluent both verbally and written in English
Already part of the non-refugee rules
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigrat...%20application.

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assign their housing so they cannot group in large numbers
Who are 'they' other than a xenophobic 'other', and why would should we do that for 'them' when we don't do it for 'us'?

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restrict healthcare for the first 10 years,
Temporary immigrants already have an NHS surcharge. Immigrants who gain residency to the UK qualify the same as any other UK citizen.

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issue temporary safety visas for refugees
That is the whole point of the asylum process that we should be doing today - allowing them to have legal visas and where possible a way to contribute to our country. Instead we stop them doing so.

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but mainly stop asking people to welcome and tolerate newcomers until they deserve it.
I would hope we never end up in this country with that attitude again. Otherwise we risk going back to the colonial and racist attitudes of the past

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