I'm only a year older and left in 2008, but I was going on 21 when I started. I left school at 16 with only a couple of GSCEs and needed more or less top marks at A-Level in all 3 subjects to get in...it's still the thing I'm most proud of doing, to be honest. It was still difficult though, I ended up getting a train to Cov at 6am the day after Fresher's Week finished to get away from it all.
Is that far right? Is it really immoral, can’t tell if it’s ineffective without actually sending some people there.
If 100s of thousands of people were landing in the UK each year, I doubt you'd say the same thing.
So how where do we get the doctors, nurses and social care workers we need without immigration?
Who are you to judge where a potential refugee may feel safe?
Who would still vote Labour if they openly supported that policy?
Did you read what I was responding to, there is no need for people to come to UK to escape persecution, they are safein Europe. They do not arrive here directly from their country of origin.
I understood it, but as I said, the language will always draw people and the opportunities to work illegally, plus a lot of them probably have family or friends in the UK.
Refugees / asylum seekers claim to be unsafe in their country of origin. No one is unsafe in a Western European country.
I couldn't vote for any party that did.
That doesn’t mean they should be Allowed to come here. We are a small country.
No proper Labour voters I should think.
Again, how exactly do you determine that? You can’t speak for the safety of 30 other countries.
Add Trotsky and er, Len McCluskey to the ever growing list of socialists opposed to immigration.
Damn straight
You're doing the same as Grendel. Just picking out individual left wing politicians, who aren't necessarily socialists anyway, saying they prove that socialism is intrinsically anti immigration. It was not conceived as such as an ideology. And there were early socialists who were very much internationalists.
And economic migrants?
Furthermore as a country we choose to support/engage in military action across the globe. Whether you support or oppose this position is one thing, but we should be accepting of the fact that people will be displaced as a result, and we have a moral responsibility to provide shelter for them.
How many EU countries would you define as unsafe or less safe than the UK?
Many of the asylum seekers are fleeing the Taliban as we abandoned them following our botched withdrawal.
Why shouldn't we take our fair share?
What military action are we currently engaged in?
Surely it’s some, not many.
Great achievement Sick Boy your reaping the rewards now
Define fair share. We are an incredibly small and crowded country compared to, for example, France.
We pulled out of Afghanistan leaving thousands of people who had supported us to their plight under the Taliban.
We take a fraction compared to countries like Germany, Greece and Italy.
There's a lot straying from the path though don't you think, Herts?