That's the % of people who entered the UK 'illegally' in the past 12 months upto March 2025.
96%....that's 96%....entered the UK 'legally'.
You'd think it was the other way round the way some of the mainstream press go on about it.

4%…but still illegal .
If burglars were 1% of the population, should we not care about burglars because they’re only 1%…?

Percentages can be deceptive.

4% of a very very big number is going to be in itself a big number.

I heard Vince Cable on the radio, he said we are only taking 1% of the worlds displaced people but what he didn’t say was that 1% is a massive number to an overcrowded small country like the UK. France is over twice the size of the UK.

On the news yesterday, we now have a bigger population than France.

About 44,000 illegally and the vast majority of that number will be processed....and a lot quicker than the tories processed them.

They'll need to process them faster they're coming over in record numbers - fleeing war torn France!
Smash the gangs, stop the hotels, promised Starmer and yet the numbers arriving are increasing and so are the hotel costs. When will this lot stop blaming the Tory's and actually own anything let alone do anything useful? A year in under Labour and pensioners in poverty and children in poverty both increased while we spend more on these illegals.

And how are they processed,when they have no ID,they can say any old crap.
Plus,the home office has said it’s doesn’t know where around 20,000 of them are.

They increase the speed of processing by not asking too many questions. Plenty of dubious characters are being waved through. Sickening.

What about all the serious violence going on in and around the camps with shootings and stabbings. I wonder how many of them involved made it over and now have their feet up in a luxury hotel.

I knew it wouldn't take long for pissy pants to turn up.

And you know that personally Oddie?? You know how many and what questions get asked?? Intriguing.
A thread about immigration and Oddie pipes up. You couldn't make it up....well you could like.

I'm just surprised and a bit saddened that Snowy was the first to reply.
Oh well. (shruggsshoulderswhilesayingmeh).

BTW....how many on here will be travelling to London and marching for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on 13th September??
Howay speak up....numbers please.
Pissy pants....you going??

I'm going to call you Mr Naive from now on......At least when you turn up with your mob your black balaclava will hide your ugly mush,eh.

I'm going to call you Mr Naive from now on......At least when you turn up with your mob your black balaclava will hide your ugly mush,eh.

Who has to go all the way to London for a march nowadays Mutley...they're becoming nationwide, have you not noticed ?

And they're all over the country,Mutley..when are you going to wake up to what's going on?

On present forecasts 96% will be allowed to stay…so what’s the point of ‘processing’ them with that approval rating.

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Are you implying it’s racist to stop illegals coming into the country.
Don’t try pulling that one with me.
See the bigger picture.
I’m affronted you think I’m that shallow…..I do not judge them by their race but by their brazen criminal behaviour.
This sort of arrogant behaviour makes it difficult for ethnic families established in this country for decades …that is who I’m concerned for, not a bunch of freeloaders out to make a quick buck.

Why ask that question, I for one wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole…but this polarisation where you put people into boxes …because in my case, I want to see the law upheld …you should be looking a bit deeper at the shades of grey reasoning for this anger and weak as piss Tory and Labour solutions which are making it worse.

If for some bizarre reason French citizens were coming over the channel in these numbers and being put up in hotels I’d be asking the same bleedin question, but would that be racist…?
They’re all just blatant law breakers to me trying to get into the country.
Their race is irrelevant.

All this immigration is leading us into a digital ID , social credit score , own nothing dystopia tony Blair big idea for citizen control

If say 1000 swam the channel dingy style
800 dark skin.
200 light skin.

Then they are all the same 1000.

We a small country and our own people shudent be sent into poverty to subsidise these freeloaders.

The race card Dosent even come into play.
A bad excuse that like.

Only 150 yesterday.
Choppy windy waves eh.

Where have I mentioned anything about 'racists'??

I asked YOU if it was racist, read what I wrote….when I used the word ‘implied’.

But I pointed out firmly my complaint was not based on race or ethnicity because in this tiresome debate that’s the first thing that is thrown at anyone questioning the arrival of the illegal channel hoppers..

Always makes me laugh when the race card is flung at people who are just concerned citizens.
They’re are mainly young men,hardly any woman children coming over,it’s costing £8 million & rising a day to house them.
It’s costs £42k a year per immigrant,I earn nowhere near that amount.
You can’t get a doctor/dentist appointment,while they have no problem.
I could go on,but can’t be arsed,as it’s exhausting.
If people aren’t concerned at what’s happening in the country,god help you.

Good post.

No need to worry once all the single men get granted asylum they are allowed to bring their ‘spouses’to the U.K
A person granted asylum or humanitarian protection in the UK can bring their spouse to join them through the Family Reunion route, provided they were in a relationship before they fled their country of origin and they apply for family reunion on the UK government's website.
How do they prove a relationship ?

Good point Jamie…I just wonder how the government can give these rights to people who’ve arrived without any proof of identity.

i,d say the vast amount are concerned but only silently. over the years many are so scared of being called a racist where they feel its the worst slur on there character that exists. more are concerned now who were happy to welcome immigrants previously and that will include many lifelong labour voters i guess.

Yup, you may have noticed that personal insults are immediately used against anyone opposed to the current small boat arrivals.

Ignore the trolls.
Best way to piss them off.

You only have to go on YouTube to see what's going on.
The news channels are now turning a blind eye to it.

A fair few chanting Starmer is a w-n-e-.
A few live TV football matches coming up could get entertaining.

Sing/Starmer Out.

The main channels made a point of ignoring the small boat crossings until forced to mention it, as though it was beneath their ‘dignity’ with their sniffy attitudes.
The pics last night of the detained arrivals was pure comedy.
1. They could have had no idea which of the immediate arrivals were going back in that short space of time.
2. They were dressed up in matching grey outfits to emphasise their message.
3. The lawyers haven’t arrived yet to pull the ‘detainees’ out of the fire yet
4. The French haven’t approved them yet , as they have to check them out.

Then if by some miracle it happens ……they’ll go back and join the queue for the next rubber boat across to Blighty.

Yep,plenty of footage of people getting harassed & assaulted in Speakers Corner by large groups of these peace loving people.
Also a young Christian preacher on the receiving end in London.

This.
It will be linked to your bank account.
If you make a minor offence parking fine ,speeding etc,the fine will be taken straight out of your bank.
It happens in China now

The 1st line inn your post is 100% bullshit.

If the U.K. refuse them for asylum whats to say France would take them back ?

Give me your back ground experience of interviewing these people to be able to judge the time an assessment takes…
Tory and Labour have been taking an age to process people and suddenly they can do it immediately……..?

My apologies Snowy...I thought it read as MSM and no one was reporting on the Channel Crossings. Sorry.

But....Labour have been processing much faster than the tories ever did.

I forgive you…

A bit like saying the steam roller has overtaken the bulldozer at Silverstone.
But with a remain forecast for the channel hoppers to be in the region of nearly 90% … it’s irrelevant.
As long as their efforts are rewarded the boat people will keep coming.

Indeed, Snowy. If someone rocks up in Dover having "lost" all their documents and claims to be from a war torn country, they are accepted for asylum no questions: how can there be any checks? In addition, Labour have relaxed the rules around proof of age so, in order to claim extra perks, some are claiming to be children and their lie is accepted. The stark truth is, we have no idea who the vast majority of these people actually are, where they are from and what they have done in the past. Not exactly reassuring to be told Labour are speeding up the process and 90 plus percent are being allowed asylum. Are we just supposed to say this is all fine and anyone who disagrees is a far right racist?

without any documentation and proof they can say they are from anywhere and any age if they do not push the latter too far. if you can speak another language fluently who is to say you are not from that country. for me i could go to another country knock 10 years off my age with ease and speak adrikaans and who would tell in say spain i was not a 68 year old white saffa.

FFS....If they turn up on a dinghy with no documentation they will be the ones swapped for someone in France who has went through the proper channels. How hard is that to not understand??

In February 22, 98% of small boat arrivals had no passports. Maybe there has been a miraculous change of behaviour since then.

Tell us Mutley, How is this all going to work if we have to send them all back?

Yesterday, 155 small boaters arrived in Dover. The government claim "dozens" were detained and could be sent back to France. So lets say three dozen really are sent back to France at some stage in the future. In return, France will send us three dozen more to replace the ones we "sent back". Thus we still end up with exactly the same number of migrants arriving and living here at tax payers expense. It is a fookin con that only lefty types push, believing the UK voters to be stupid.

You can only apply for asylum in the U.K. not from another country, might be wrong though ?

Let's face it, both parties have done an embarrassing job when it comes to illegal immigration. Political parties are not football teams though, and I hate seeing people be fanatical about them as if they are. All political parties are infested with corrupt little slugs that only want power, and people that blindly support ANY of them are the fertiliser that fuels them.

I vote based on whose policies I align with more at the time of voting, which has led me to vote for all major parties at one time or another. The only consistencies have been their dishonesty and my disappointment.

"Labour have been processing much faster than the Tories ever did" in Pools terms is like saying "well at least Raj is doing a better job than JPNG". It may technically be true, but they're both absolutely shite and we deserve much better.