Just listened to the BBC Radio Ulster interview with the Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland, Emma Little-Pengelly. I think it was a good response as she was condemning violence, but also acknowledging the problem and catalyst (a lack of social housing) and started talking about how she’ll try and work to create more social housing so people aren’t displaced by migration, etc. I think this was a common sense approach instead of just simply encouraging violence or declaring war on the rioters, which I feel like would just make things worse.

It is true, we should expand social housing. I think everyone can agree with that.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      You think that the small boats are unchecked? That they are not intercepted and the people detained?

      In any case, that is only illegal because the last government made it so that you cannot claim asylum upon landing. They are not criminals in any other sense.

      • FlaxOPEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        They don’t have a right to be here- They’re coming from France, a safe country. They’re not fleeing persecution, they’re just trying to cheat the system. And they’re paying criminal gangs and they keep causing deaths among their own people.

        • @[email protected]
          1•3 months ago

          Theresa May introduced the Hostile Environment, and Priti Patel made it even more strict. If the Home Office could refuse asylum applications for any reason whatsoever, they would. Despite that, the vast majority of asylum applications are successful.

          So they are not cheating the system and they do have the right to be here.

          Besides which, how many people do you think we’re talking about? Small boats. The clue is in the name. It’s not like Dunkirk out there.

          • FlaxOPEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            30k people arrived here in 2023 via small boat.

            Theresa may also lacks common sense immigration policy. She was far too harsh on people wanting to come into this country for good sincere reason

            • @[email protected]
              1•3 months ago

              You’re quoting the statistic about how many people were stopped on landing or shortly afterwards to tell me how they’re arriving “unchecked”.

              • FlaxOPEnglish
                1•3 months ago

                They’re still allowed into the country instead of being deported back to France

                • @[email protected]
                  1•3 months ago

                  Because they have valid claims - 67% of claims in 2023 were successful.

                  They are not criminals. People who smash gravestones to throw them at policemen, though, they are criminals. We should put them in a prison barge.

                  • FlaxOPEnglish
                    1•3 months ago

                    How is their claim valid though if they came from France?

                    People who smash gravestones to throw them at policemen, though, they are criminals. We should put them in a prison barge.

                    I wholeheartedly agree