Stirlingsays
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The flip side of this is that the EU operates a policy of one member rejects an application for asylum/entry and the ruling applies to all member state.
The applicant has a number of choices, one of which is head for a non EU member state and apply afresh. Many of those who ride the boats are just that.
Sure, but you omit the options available to the rejectee within the European system.
The EU's Asylum Procedures Directive (and related laws in the Common European Asylum System) requires access to appeals before national courts or tribunals, often with multiple levels (e.g., first-instance administrative appeal, then higher courts).
This has the potential for massive costs if you are rejecting large numbers.
Also, the rejected person can lodge an individual application with the ECtHR in Strasbourg if they claim the rejection/decision violates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The current system is a money farm for human rights lawyers.
We left the EU on 31 Jan 2010. You only have to look at the graph showing boat crossings to see the correlation. Not something Farage says aloud.
He is also very quiet about the stats. Immigrants (not students or small boat people) minus emigrants is around zero. The numbers balance. Something of an inconvenient truth.
Surely you aren't suggesting that those choosing to leave the UK share the same non British ethnicity percent as those coming in?....legal or illegal.
Sure, I have far less issues with European immigration, but it's still not preferable to keeping the native British in their own lands.......Lots of people are looking at what the social liberals and left are doing to the country and leaving.
And if you are really complaining about the "quality" of immigrants and the harming of our ethnicity, religion, values and culture I am on your side. However, those who voted leave inadvertently elected to replace mobile, literate European migrants with immobile, often illiterate, non EU migrants. The definition of an unintended consequence.
That was how the dishonest establishment choose to interpret the Brexit vote.
Everyone and their cat knows that what people voted for wasn't what they received....it was a betrayal.
A lot of people....including me, have had their faith in democracy probably permanently broken.
And if you want the definition of irony, Leavers will readily blame "elites" "progressives" and "lefties" for the state we are in. No self inspection or peak at the mirror whatsoever.
Well, you are saying that people should expect bad faith......Well, they certainly do now and we see the Tories and Labour both suffering for it.
PS I am aware I am wasting my breath as most posters on here will read: "BLAH BLAH BLAH migrants are all lovely BLAH BLAH BLAH full open door policy BLAH BLAH BLAH I love Tony Blaire BLAH BLAH BLAH all Leavers are NAZIs" etc. However, it felt cathartic to write it.
Calling you a fan of Blair...or at least that more stable era (even though he started the destruction).....to what we have today may be a criticism from my perspective.....but that's because I'm incredibly based. 😀 I'm not quite the same conservative poster who started in 2009. My eyes have been opened to just how horrendous things are and how betrayed the English/British have been.
But be in now doubt, whether I agree with your opinion or not, I regard them as thoughtful and considered and I do read them.
I regard your opinions as welcome.