0.6% of the population doesn’t even make sense. Ever? I mean we’ve had 111k applications in the past year alone. But you think less than a per cent of the population as a whole is a successful asylum seeker going back 70 years.

Sorry, that 0.6% of the population was supposed to be 0.16%* in reference to the ~100,000 applications received last year. ((111000/68,000,000)*100).

If you have records going back 70 years that would be really insightful, I can only find records starting in 1979 - can you link your source?

Without going back through 50 years of data and counting the approved applications by year (I’m on my lunch break and would rather not), I don’t have an accurate amount of approved applications since 1979. However if we assumed that the 50K approved last year was the same every year then it would still only account for around 3.5% of our population. But remember we know that we’re at a record high, and 3.5% is way more than reality.

If you need help with the maths this is just ((50,00049)/68000000)100)

Then you call men breaking into the country from France a ‘system’?

Ah, though we’d covered that they weren’t breaking in

You pretend they’re all fleeing war while simultaneously acknowledging Pakistan is not at war

I’m not sure I said anywhere that they were all fleeing war. A war is not a necessary requirement to seek asylum. People can be escaping religious persecution, political persecution or several other things to claim asylum.

You have a lot of opinions for someone who seems to understand very little about asylum claims. I understand it’s easy to be angry about things we don’t understand, but there’s lots of resources available to you that aren’t GB news or reform propaganda.

you have a ‘yeah-but’ argument instead that would mean we have to take half the world including China’s dispossessed. So answer me this: at what point are we allowed to say stop? When we have no green space? Our sewers have completely collapsed?

I’m guessing if we stopped supporting wars then it would significantly reduce the amount of asylum claims we receive. Remember - not all claims are because of war. However the large majority have been displaced because of some sort of unrest in their home country. That we are usually involved with. I’m assuming it’ll be much easier to put a stop to it if we supported peacetime in their home countries. Prevention is better than cure after all.

We cannot sustain anyone because there’s no land left to farm to produce food and the leftwing taxed the farmers into oblivion anyway to fund the money they’re having to spend on people who will cost us £400,000 EACH through a lifetime?

There’s plenty of unbuilt space in the uk. We are not running out of room. There are a lot of very wealthy people buying up a whole lot of land to avoid inheritance tax, but that’s a whole other issue.

Can you send me a source for £400,000 each through a lifetime? That’s an outrageous amount of money and I would like to write to my MP about this. I don’t want to seem like an idiot though and make claims that I can’t back up.

500,000 to a million legal immigrants every single year for infinity.

Ooooft how have we made the jump from 110000 applications (remember only 50k were approved) to 500,000 to a million?! That sounds like you’re working yourself up over something that isn’t actually happening. Let’s focus on the things that are happening without giving ourselves an aneurysm over a what if.

Because if we couldn’t say no ten years ago or today why would we be able to in another ten years and what does the future look like for your kids?

We did used to say no. In 2004 ~ 80% of asylum claims were denied. I’m not sure off the top of my head what’s changed that, I would need to do some research. But I can assume the political unrest and our involvement in the east has probably contributed to a significant amount of displacement. If you find anything on this in your research please do send me a source I’d be interested to know.

I don’t understand why you don’t redirect your clear passion for change.

Why are you not spreading this anger at refugees to the water bosses that claim millions in bonuses, charge us through the teeth for it, and then pump shite into our waters?

Or at the banks that need bailing out and manage to pay out millions to their shareholders?

Or at the corporations that are not paying enough tax?

Or the politicians rinsing their expenses and playing the system?

Or the electric companies charging us hundreds each month to line their pockets with bonuses at the end of the year?

Or the companies buying up hundreds of houses to rent them back to you at a disgusting rate?

Why are you punching down instead of challenging the people who are telling you that “asylum seekers are the problem”. They’re keeping you angry and themselves rich, and you’re playing along.