badgerx16

The problem with classifying somebody as a 'genuine' asylum seeker is the lack of 'safe and legal' routes, forcing people who may be 'genuine' to seek an alternative route into the UK because they have no access to a legal path.

There should be an international arrangement that stops the cross channel boats, if only on humaintarian grounds, linked to a better arrangement of "safe and legal" routes for asylum seekers, thereby removing some of the incentive for people to try the boats. All said and done, the southern European countries have a far more difficult situation to deal with. There will always be people attempting to get around immigration controls, we just need to reduce the numbers so that things are manageable and the statistics are less prone to malevolent manipulation and misinterpretation.

It has issues, but I am not sure a "perfect" system exists. Are you happy with the way the legal immigration system in the UK works, given that the last census reports that over 10 million people living in the UK at that time were born overseas.

Will harassing British children, probably on the basis of skin colour in this case, help solve any issues there might be ?

Warwick

"Send them back" - ( to Scotland ). Taffs are an insular bunch.

Oxide

Fiddler

I couldn't manage much Dickens when at school, I found it rambling and dense - probably good training for some of the posters on here.

I have debated or even "held a frank exchange of views" with plenty on here, even Guided Missile on occasion. Go back and read the Brexit thread for one. The only ones avoiding debate seem to be you and Nic, crying about an 'echo chamber' rather than attempting to engage when you know you have nothing to contribute.

Maybe Sir Ralph could do so. Talking to yourself would at least give you one other forum member that agrees with you.

NVIDIA and AMD selling computer chips to China was banned because it was a national security risk. NVIDIA and AMD selling the same computer chips to China and giving 15% of the revenue to the US Government is now fine. The Art of the Deal.

Take them away from politics and most MPs are the same. During one Labour conference in Blackpool, a schools concert orchestra our daughter played in was behind the scenes between sets, they played in the hall during breaks in the debates. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown joined them for a chat, Blair brought the biscuits and Brown poured the cups of tea.

Perhaps Mr Bumble was right, "the Law is an ass".

The Sun is shining in God's own county, so I shall. Peace and love. UTS.

Given the proliferation of laughing emojis posted by you, I'm not sure you are committed to serious debate. Perhaps you're related to nutty Nic.

All Governments lie to us. If they want to avoid the negative publicity around stunts like the placard protest, they can release some of their allegations to public scrutiny. From what I can find, PA have broken some windows and sprayed a lot of red paint. On that basis, why aren't Just Stop Oil proscribed ? In the first prosecution of PA the Judge instructed the jury to return a not guilty verdict; https://gardencourtchambers.co.uk/jury-acquits-palestine-action-activists-on-defences-of-necessity-and-protection-of-property/

The BBC spouting nonsense and failing basic general knowledge. In this story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g034yx4gjo they state that Captain Scott discovered the South Pole. He may have been one of the first Britons to get there, but Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition beat Scott to the pole. Edit: they have now changed the story to say Scott was "one of the first to reach the pole".

If they had just written "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine".would they have been breaking the law ? The point of the protest was not to support terrorism, it was to challenge a ridiculous piece of legislation. Do you think Palestine Action should be grouped with the Continuity IRA and HAMAS ? The main reason PA were proscribed is because they embarassed the MOD.

"I actually believe that if 7 October taught us one thing it is, if you really care about protecting Israelis and Palestinian life, you need to take care of the root causes of the violence: decades of brutal military occupation, displacement of Palestinians and a conflict that is going on for about 100 years. "Ultimately, the security protection, the sustainability of Jewish self-determination in this land, is interlinked and intertwined with achieving self-determination rights and equality for Palestinians." Israeli opponent of West Bank settlement expansion.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wwxz12jko

Mine

So ?

466 people arrested in London for carrying hand written signs.

Northampton rugby club are nicknamed The Saints.

Bunker