Asylum seekers in the UK
03-July-2009
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Arncott in Oxfordshire

So this is it the French have finally decided to succumb to closing the Sangatte camp, on the grounds that we in the UK accept half.  Why?  Have we not got enough ‘British Citizens’ already?  Now where can we place them? Government decision, in the oppositions constituency. What are we talking about Pawns in a chess set?

No, we are talking about taking 750 asylum seekers, and sticking them in between two surrounding villages of Bicester (Arncott and Piddington).

Bicester, to those who do not know it originally was a small market town in Oxfordshire, it has now grown with the economy to give good housing and good access to both London and Birmingham. Unlike our other towns in Oxfordshire, it has a very low ethnic minority count.  It is not that we are racist, it is just that the surrounding towns and Cities have greater amenities to attend to peoples religions/beliefs.  We do have the Central Army Ordinance Depot, on our outskirts where army personnel live, one of these villages being Arncott.

Now as a town, there has always been a restlessness between the locals and the army personnel who also want to use the public houses within the town centre, often causing the local police and the military police to sort out these disturbances.  So now lets put 750 Kurds, Albanians, Iraqis, etc. in a volatile environment where there are not many ‘British Citizens’ and young lads from the local army barracks, what are we looking at?  I dread to think.

They almost always end up doubling in size.

Piddington in Oxfordshire

The troubling thing is that like all detention centres, prisons, etc. we all know that when they are built they are supposed to house a certain amount, the problem being that they almost always end up doubling in size.  Sangatte was built for 700, it now has over 1,500.  Arncott and Piddington between them house 700 people (Figure from the Sun 23/05/02), so what is it going to be like with 750 Illegal immigrants, possibly double that in the future.

Another thought, is when they were confined to one area with good amenities, for example Campsfield House and the detention centre in Luton, they are determined to damage it, most recent being the fire in Luton.  When they have their freedom as they do in Sangatte they go round with knives attacking each others community, Afghans against the Iraqis.

Sangatte has turned from being a nice seaside village into being a war zone where people dare not leave their homes in the evening, is that how we want people in our villages to feel?  Do we want our town to turn into a free for all between all the young people?  Could Bicester retail shopping village be a place where you might go with a wallet/purse, but going home without it may become a common feature?  Easy picking for free loaders coming to live at yours and my benefit.

Just remember next pay slip, how much tax you pay goes towards these guys who have fled not because of the trouble in their country, but because they are in trouble within the security forces of their own land.


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"still cant believe we wanted the olympic bid "

We? Are you saying this was a democratic decision decided by referendum and that the majority voted in favour? I don't think so.
*MikeP  24-Jun-2009 13:59

 
i still cant believe we wanted the olympic bid we complain about all the foreigners coming over here and now you want loads of them coming in, in tracksuits and hoodies taking up our parking spaces, places on the trains who thought of that bright idea
*simon xmas  24-Jun-2009 11:37

 
Well, I am a asylum seeker, I think personally you don't let enough of us in..
*Megan Barnes  17-Jun-2009 19:39

 
If the number of asylum seekers goes down in the next year or two then we will know that the majority of seekers are "economic migrants" rather than true seekers of safety and asylum.
*Count them out  20-May-2009 17:55

 
Osmium, I'm curious, if you're a professional black londoner, what is an amatuer one?
*Saddened Englishman  20-May-2009 17:30

 
Marty, Gadalf and Santiago - what you have written illustrates that the problem of identifying asylum seekers from economic migrants in the EU needs co-ordinated Union wide action between the states of the Union. The French authoriries in particular need to take action against those migrants loitering in the Calais area trying to cross the Channel to England, and the French are entitled to expect full co-operation from the UK government in doing so. Those who are genuine asylum seekers would have already claimed asylum in France or another state on the European mainland.
*Edgar  24-Feb-2009 16:26

 
Gandalf

You are quite correct. Once an asylum seeker arrives within the EU he should immediately declare himself to the authorities in that country and not wait until arriving in the UK. If he does not then he is an illegal immigrant and by definition a criminal.
*Santiago  24-Feb-2009 11:00

 
I thought that the first Safe Country an Asylum Seekers comes to is where they appy for asylum. Therefore as we are an Island surely there application resides with France Germany Spain or the Benelux countries.
*Gandalf  24-Feb-2009 10:35

 
They don't want Belgium, France, Germany, Holland or Italy they want the UK. They want the UK for welfare benefits and we are far less tolerant than any of the forementioned countries.

It's very simple people.
*Marty  24-Feb-2009 10:23

 
If our country would stop doling out cash the minute a migrant arrives here they'd soon stop coming.
*Gillybow  23-Feb-2009 14:58

 
There were 6,620 applications for asylum in the UK in the third quarter of 2008 (July to September). This was 12 per cent higher than the third quarter of 2007 (5,885). This is the 5th successive quarter there has been a year on year increase.

Including dependants, there were 7,985 asylum applications in the third quarter of 2008, 11 per cent higher than the third quarter of 2007 (7,185). This compares with an estimated increase of 4 per cent in the rest of the EU27 (excluding Italy and the UK).
*Numbers  20-Feb-2009 23:12

 
Osmium.

Greetings and thank you for have introducing me to an entirely new concept.

I have heard of professional dancers, professional whingers and even the word being used on it's own: 'professional'.

"What do you do for a living"?

"I'm a 'professional' ".

As though being a 'professional' is a job in it's own right.

But a "professional black Londoner" is a new one to me.

This is fascinating, I am intrigued.

Do you have to take exams or join a trade association or something.? Is it open to anyone? Have you a waiting list? I'm dying to know.
*Santiago  26-Jan-2009 14:26


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