Why are they still here ?

[bazwillrun]

http://www.guardian.c...poverty?newsfeed=true

Why arent we shipping them back on the first available flight once they have been turned down. ?

[Gromit]

2009-10 (the last Labour Government spent £40million returning them home.
So far this year we have spent £9million repatriating them.

The choice appears to be that we can get rid of more at an higher overall cost, or we can just get rid of a few and save on transportation costs.

Failed Asylum seekers are a pain living on 77p a day. But i would sooner we deported the twits who bought golden-turds and and cost the country thousands of billions of pounds bailing out their failed banking businesses.

[anotheoldgit]

Agree they shouldn't have come here in the first place.

If we were to go to another country penniless and with no where to go, would any other government care about us?

No and one couldn't expect them to, it would be our own silly fault for going there in the first place.

[Gromit]

You would find it an hard choice AOG?

Stay where you are and you die and your family die, or go to a safer place.

[Bazile]

There but for the grace of god ....

It is easy to condem those in the slum at the bottom of the hill when you are living in the mansion at the top of the hill .

[youngmafbog]

Gromit, your example is a genuine Asylum seeker, not a failed one who will have been deemed not to be in danger of death.

[VictorMildew]

Not letting them in in the first place would seem like the ideal remedy to me.

[NOX]

Glad to see the milk of human kindness running in abundance in our green and pleasant land...some people forget how fortunate they are and that others are less so. It's not a crime to want to live somewhere safe with your family, it's exactly what YOU would do if your situations were reversed.

[emmie]

no idea, time we did though. As to helping all who land here, why should we, when we have people here in dire need. This is not a land of milk and honey, it's one where people are suffering because many services they need are being cut, essential life saving care is going west. You can blame who you like Labour, Lib Dems, Conservative, but the fact remains people are pouring into Britain expecting something we cannot deliver.

[emmie]

I don't consider myself fortunate, nor do many, those who worked bloody hard all their lives to see it being p issed down the drain by endless handouts to foreign countries many of whom are in a far better financial position than us.

[chaptazbru]

Good points em, very good.

[NOX]

You don't consider yourself fortunate Em10? Makes one wonder what your standard for comparison is really doesn't it? Or possibly not I would imagine.

[237SJ]

The only thing that shocks me about that report is that the authoe is shocked by the level of poverty in the UK being that people don`t know where their next meal is coming from and they have to sleep in a church cupboard. My God, that is luxury compared to some of the places I`ve been.

[237SJ]

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[askyourgran]

They should have been kicked out as soon as they landed here. Other countries won't tolerate any more. Why should we? We didn't have the infrastructure or the money to support all these immigrants but thanks to Blair/Brown policy of welcoming the world on our doorstep we are stuck with them. It makes me fume to hear about them demanding and getting bigger houses and benefits for their families of 10+, given £1m mansions rent free, while my some of our own families are finding it hard to rent or afford to buy a starter home and buy the basics. We worked bl^^dy hard to keep a roof over our heads, but we have them coming here expecting to be given everything. Not enough are being sent back.

[NOX]

I thought you were a Christian AYG?

[emmie]

for anyone who thinks living in Britain is some sort of heaven with streets paved with gold should have a look around them. And no i don't consider myself fortunate, my taxes and other people like me are paying or have paid for those who have down nothing at all for Britain, the likes of Abu Hamza for instance and plenty more besides. Why don't the various countries governments do something about cleaning up their own back yards. If they can afford nuclear weapons, armaments up the ying yang, then perhaps they can afford to feed, educate their own people. I would rather my taxes and contributions went to needy people here thank you very much.
I am sick to death of people bludging off us here.