Brexit: "Eu Will Swamp Us With Immigrants Unless We Leave"

[Canary42]

Brexit supporters said, "We will be swamped with immigrants unless we leave."

So why are the figures still rising, now at record levels ?



https://uk.yahoo.com/news/english-channel-crossings-pass-10-094857722.html

[Peter Pedant]

// The misinformation by the Brexiters deliberately pandered to peoples fears of being swamped by immigrants.//

swallowed hook line and sinker by the likes of TTT and at least half of answerbank

[bobbinwales]

Vaccines anneasquith. Full benfits may take some time. But no point in going over tge arguments. We lost and got to move on

[Spicerack]

insulting nonsense. I've no idea how you keep getting away with it, pp.

[anneasquith]

We obtained vaccines because we left the EU?

[ToraToraTora]

anne: "We obtained vaccines because we left the EU? " - have a day off! No we sorted our own rather than have to wait for the Eurocrats to sort it like we would have had to if we'd been in. That is why our vaccine program was streets ahead of that in the EUSSR, geddit?

[bobbinwales]

No am sure you minor what I meant but we were free to use them here not pool them

[bobbinwales]

Minor should say know

[naomi24]

Spicerack, nor me. Perhaps the powers that be are indulging him for personal reasons.

[ToraToraTora]

no idea why PP seems to be exempt from the rules. I know he has mental issues but surely he can't keep getting away with his rudeness.

[anneasquith]

Bob. Do you believe we would not be as well vaccinated had we stayed in the EU.? This is a genuine Q.I was not aware of that .

[bobbinwales]

Glad to help anne

[ToraToraTora]

anne the EUSSR were barely out of the starting blocks when we'd vaccinate half the population. They spent the first 2 months arguing about the admin. We started jabbing straight away.

[Gromit]

Naomi,
The poster said Turkey IS joining the EU, not that they already had. But Turkey are NOT joining the EU.

[ToraToraTora]

at the time it was a distinct possibility gromit.

[Spicerack]

You don't know that, gromit.
I know they're still receiving EU accession funds.

[Spicerack]

Anyway, that's not why Naomi had to correct you. As you well know.

[New Judge]

//The photo on the UKiP poster was of Syrian Refugees at the Slovenian border. They were implying illigal immigrants will swamp us to ‘Breaking Point’.//

You shouldn't believe anything that any politician (of any persuasion) tells you, Gromit. Only a fool does that. Some of what they tell you might be correct or true but most of it is Male Bovine Excrement.

//Can any brexiteers give us anything they have benefited from in leaving the EU ?//

It wasn't about gaining benefits, Anne. It was about the UK embarking on a different political model that did not see it bound to a supranational unelected quango. The benefits of that will come later and should certainly be expected to materialise in six months.

As far as Turkey goes, it is still an official candidate nation to join the EU. "Negotiations" (I think that's the word used) have been ongoing since 1999. Those negotiations, along with those of the other four official candidates (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) are likely to be ongoing for some time because, quite honestly (if only the EU would accept the fact) none is suitable to join a union of Western European nations. However, as with earlier candidates who were similarly unsuitable but were ultimately accepted, a way will no doubt eventually be found to admit them (if the EU does not wind up first, that is).

[ichkeria]

We’ll never know, but its very possible the UK would have pursued its own vaccination programme independent of the EU (as Hungary for one did).

[ichkeria]

Interestingly, Belarus has been adopting a policy of “immigration sabotage” against Lithuania. They’ve been scheduling extra flights from Iraq and packing Iraqi etc refugees across the border such that Lithuania’s authorities can barely cope.
Not strictly related to the question but I thought I’d mention it :-)

[david small]

Would it not be possible to draft through emergency legislation making it a criminal offence to land on our shores without explicit permission? Therefore any and all immigrants could be arrested immediately and treated as felons? Housed in appropriate jails, fed sparsely, and generally made to feel extremely unwelcome?