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So we should instantly close the boarders to all migrants, including students, doctors, nurses and care home workers? Who would you suggest fills the vacancies?

Immigration isn’t ‘out of control’ it is almost fully in control of the elected government. Small boat arrivals/asylum seekers make up a tiny percentage of the people arriving in the UK it is just blown out of all proportion by right wing media coverage and politicians looking for a convenient other. The vast majority of immigrants arrive with either educational or work visas approved by the government because the first batch support our further education system and the second our economy and public services. As for why they want to come here, the simple answer is the vast majority don’t the UK takes a vanishingly small percentage of the worlds displaced people. Those that do want to come here often site language, friends/family and opportunity as reasons.

Where did I say the current process doesn’t? The comment was in response to the implication that we shouldn’t process an asylum application from someone if France because ‘they are in France so they are safe’. Maybe read things twice before responding

Now you’re just being deliberately obtuse, nobody within Afghanistan is going to be able to apply for asylum from within the boarders of that country but once they have fled to a third country they could if we chose permit them to apply for asylum in the UK at any British embassy and then if successful transport them to the UK. Name me a safe route to apply for asylum in the UK without first arriving on UK soil? They simply don’t exist outside of very short lived an specific measures ie Ukraine and Afghans who worked with the British. You know as well as I do that asylum seekers do not have to apply for asylum in the first country they arrive in a measure to stop neighbouring countries being overwhelmed so don’t play the ‘they are in France so they are safe’ nonsense card as it doesn’t align with our commitments under international treaty. The only way to decide if someone is pretending to be a refugee is to process their application something the last government effectively stopped doing and in the end even made illegal for small boat arrivals, hence the epic backlog. Finally as I said in my origional reply to your post the number of people arriving by small boat is a drop in the ocean if you are really serious about dropping the numbers you still need to choose one of my options to Achieve it but you seem to be ignoring that and delivering a load of waffle about Afghanistan having a terrible oppressive hostile government….

That is exactly what I said, I was asked what routes could be opened to allow asylum applications abroad and gave some basic examples. Would people really pay smugglers stacks of cash and risk the crossing if they could just walk into the local embassy and apply? It is laughable that people are so hung up on the small numbers of people arriving in the UK by small boat yet don’t want to offer an alternative route to apply for asylum.

Seems incredibly expensive when you dig into the costs a little, would be much cheaper to process people efficiently assimilate those entitled to asylum and deport those not.

Loads of options, for those fleeing a country then they could apply for asylum at a UK embassy in a safe third country. They could apply online the options are only limited by your imagination or lack there of. If the main desire is the somewhat pathetic slogan ‘stop the boats’ then we could open asylum processing centres in France which the French government have previously said they would support. You didn’t see Ukrainians on small boats because we opened safe routes for them to come legally to the UK and apply for asylum, something we don’t have for people from other nations. None of which tackles the issue of high net migration which is fuelled by reporting students in the numbers and giving out large numbers of skilled worker visas which make up the vast majority of migrants. The options for which are not attractive as nobody will want to pay more tax to fund higher education, or higher prices for services impacted by labour shortages and nobody wants a more broken NHS. All this the country is full nonsense and we should stop all by essential migration is so laughably pathetic as the people screaming and throwing bricks fail to offer any realistic alternative. They got there way we left the EU and ended freedom of movement to be replaced by a points based migration system and still they aren’t happy!

It seems the democrats ditching a senile old man has really highlight that Trump is an equally senile old man! Fortunately there is no chance of the republicans ditching him for someone vaguely competent they are too far invested in the cult of stupidity.

Decent result for the blue few, Leeds will be there or there abouts at the seasons end. Maintain that level for the season and you’ll have a good one.

You say yourself that the small boats are a tiny fraction of net migration to the UK so why would making it slightly easier suddenly mean we have double the level of migration? The vast majority of recent arrivals in the country have arrived with legitimate visas awarded either as essential workers under the points based system everyone said would fix migration or as students. So if we want to reduce migration numbers we have a few options! One stop including student arrivals in annual net migration figures as these people mostly go home few years later so including them is just waving a red ff at an angry bull. If that isn’t acceptable then we could reduce the number of foreign students but this would have a significant impact on university funding so we would either need to charge even more punitive student fees or increase higher education funding from general taxation neither of which will be popular! The final option is to reduce visas for migrant workers which would lead to a shortage of workers in many essential industries including the NHS. The choices are simple the small boats and migrants crammed into hotels are just a deliberate and convenient other for right wing politicians and their client media. Other countries process significantly more asylum seekers than we do a year and also reject a significantly larger portion. Oh and back on topic Yaxley Lennon is a total waste of oxygen he is a thug and a grifter who serves nobodies interests but his own and would complain about the night being dark if he could blame it on ‘others’ and pocket a couple of quid!

Stewart is clearly done, if he was a horse they’d be ringing the bet to bring a gun. The mystery surrounding him currently is just weird/pathetic the club should just come Clean.

If he is the best they have then Labour will be in power a while yet! A horrible little road of a man with less charisma than a month old lettuce and a record of corruption and failure as long as your arm!

I found it odd that the rounds are all held across multiple races yet the final is a one off.

Of course he said that in public as Baz was the best we had so destroying his confidence by telling everyone he was rubbish would hardly be good man management, none of us has any idea what he is saying behind the scenes and rightly so.

He’s made a decent career for himself, never quite had what it takes to play at the highest level.

We got the Delgado doctor back, he has a fisher price kids medical box and printed a certificate of achievement on twinkle! I assume he is uninsured as we signed a known crock!

How many have gone on to achieve great things after leaving saints? Boufal went on to an average spell at Angers and is now rotting in the middle east Carillo was garbage before we signed him and has maintained that level ever since including a spell in China Lemina has by contrast actually done ok, bit of a jouneyman but has played at a decent level, hardly set the world on fire and still seems to have the same crappy attitude that plagued his time at Saints. He frustrates me massively because I think if he had his head screwed on properly he would be playing for a top 6 team but he just doesn't want it enough.

Good bit of business and done early enough so he can come in and be ready for the start of the season. Definitely improves the forward line.

Any time when she is leader will likely extend the wilderness years by another cycle. She lack any centrist appeal and there simple are not enough votes that far right wing to win her a general election. I’m all for her succeeding Badenoch or Patel after they loose the next election.

And they are allowed to limp in on crutches swear blind it’s just a knock and they will be back in a couple of weeks! I’m hoping the doc who signed off Delgado is long retired and that the one who signed of Stewart has been struck off by the GMC!

The clubs board and the leagues financial fair play enforcer!

Nice blast from the past, sadly at 40+ years of age and having been retired for over a decade I'm not sure he's got the legs for top flight football anymore! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Knol More importantly has Rudi Skacel signed yet? are we still looking at that Spanish winger and has Rupert completed negotiations with Bierhoff yet? Those were the days of real summer transfer rumours!

Reminds me way too much of the Delgado fiasco! I hope he comes good but I certainly don’t expect him to!

Some strikers take a while to find the premier league groove even though they are clearly the best in the Championship, hopefully Arma's confidence from last year combined with his previous experience and hopefully the side playing well will see him deliver. If we could get 10-15 league goals out of him that would go a long way to keeping us up.

It's like the old days when we signed Federico 'The Torpedo' Arias who was apparently the only player in Argentina at the time worth signing! https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2254420/saints-confirm-arias-arrival