How Long Can This Continue? Middlesbrough At Breaking Point.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/520278/Middlesbrough-at-breaking-point-over-asylum-seekers

/// But Justice First, a Stockton-based charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers and helps them to build new lives in the UK, said current conditions for asylum seekers were tough, ///

/// The charity's manager, Dr Pete Widlinski said it was vital that communities like Middlesbrough did not "turn their backs on extremely vulnerable
people." ///

Judging by some of their comments, I don't think that the good people of Middlesbrough would agree with you Dr Widinski.

[BlackadderV]

I cannot help but observe that there is a certain irony in people who come to Britain in search of a better life converging upon Middlesbrough. My apologies to the residents of that town.

[VHG]

>>>said current conditions for asylum seekers were tough,

I am sure life for many people who were born in the UK and raised in the UK is also tough, so why should it be easier for "so called" asylum seekers.

>>>did not "turn their backs on extremely vulnerable people."

My wife works for a charity that looks after carers. She has people phoning up crying their eyes out or saying they will commit suicide as life is getting too much for them (and this is a CARERS, not the people being cared for).

I don't see why a so called "asylum seeker" should turn up on our doorstep and have an easy life when those born here are struggling.

We have enough immigrants and asylum seekers, sometimes people need to accept they were born in a poorer country and have no right to walk into a richer country and expect everything given to them on a plate.

We give plenty of money to poor countries and we cant take any more scroungers.

[Zeuhl]

It's unclear why services in Middlesbrough should be at breaking point

Would the area be better off if the 'low cost' properties these 982 people are occupying were empty and left derelict?

Is that the assumption that local service provision has been based on?
that the area is a ghost town

[dave50]

The tougher the conditions are for asylums seekers the better because hopefully word will get back and others may be less likely to come.

[Zeuhl]

/hopefully word will get back and others may be less likely to come. /

yeah right LOL

i think if conditions in Middlesbrough were ever to approach the life and death struggle of persecuted people in Afghanistan or Iran we really would have problems

BTW
at the risk of upsetting any prejudices with facts; here are a few:

///With an estimated 109,600 asylum applications, Germany was the largest recipient of new asylum claims in 2013. The United States of America was second with 84,400 asylum applications, followed by South Africa (70,000), France (60,200), and Sweden (54,300). By comparison, the UK received 23,507 new applications for asylum by the end of 2013.

(Source: UNHCR 2013 Global Trends Report)
How many refugees are there in the UK?

At the end of 2013, the population of refugees, pending asylum cases and stateless persons made up just 0.23% of the UK population. That’s 126,055 refugees, 23,070 pending asylum cases and 205 stateless persons.

The vast majority of refugees stay in their region of displacement, so that 86% of the world’s refugees are hosted by developing countries. Pakistan hosts the highest number of refugees at 1.6million.///

[Gromit]

Zeuhl,
Trust you to spoil the whinge fest by introducing some facts and numbers.

[lindapalmara]

///With an estimated 109,600 asylum applications, Germany was the largest recipient of new asylum claims in 2013. The United States of America was second with 84,400 asylum applications, followed by South Africa (70,000), France (60,200), and Sweden (54,300). By comparison, the UK received 23,507 new applications for asylum by the end of 2013. ///

Have you looked at a map lately? These countries, Germany, US etc, are much larger than the little dot which. Is England. We have our own problems to deal with yet they all pass through those countries to come to us.

[Zeuhl]

/yet they all pass through those countries to come to us. /

Not really linda

Many use a new invention called 'the aer-o-plane'

you may have heard of it

/These countries, Germany, US etc, are much larger than the little dot which. Is England/

Most refugees/asylum seekers gravitate to the major cities

are you suggesting that Paris, Berlin or Stockholm are significantly bigger than London?

Or that the UK economy is just a little dot that cannot support its population?
(it's the 6th largest in the World FYI)