Why Is U K The No1 Target For Migrants?

[ToraToraTora]

People tell me that we don't have the best benefits, our own 5C tell me everyday how bad the UK is. We are not in the EUSSR. Surely these migrants would be better off applying in any of the countries they pass through. I just can't understand why they want to come here.

[ichkeria]

I don't think it is, is it? It certainly doesn't come close when it comes to actual hosting of refugees. I bet you couldn't name the top ten: I certainly couldn't:

Turkey — 3,696,831
Jordan — 3,027,729
Uganda — 1,475,311
Pakistan — 1,438,523
Lebanon — 1,338,197
Germany — 1,235,160
Sudan — 1,068,339
Bangladesh — 889,775
Iran — 800,025
Ethiopia — 782,896

[Bobbisox1]

Because we are world renowned as a soft touch TTT and now when the government stand up to the problem ,the hand wringing brigade rise up and wail , another 444 yesterday!

[Spicerack]

They love this country and want to make it Great again.

[MWG14]

For many of them, English is their second language.

[Paul22118]

The British legal profession is working flat out:-
1. To uphold the rights of man.
2. To make Britain a better place by allowing migration.
3. Demonstrating humanity to the world.
4. Making loadsamoney...........
Discuss

[Spicerack]

Turkey — 3,696,831- Paid
Jordan — 3,027,729- Paid
Uganda — 1,475,311-Paid
Pakistan — 1,438,523-Paid
Lebanon — 1,338,197-Paid
Germany — 1,235,160 Paying and desperately off-loading.
Sudan — 1,068,339-Paid
Bangladesh — 889,775-Paid
Iran — 800,025- Don't believe it.
Ethiopia — 782,896-Paid

[Gromit]

They love to moan about everything, and want to come to a country where they will really fit in.

[andy-hughes]

Our benefits may not be the best, but they are the most easily accessed.

[ichkeria]

Having established that the UK doesn't register a blip on the scale of "most refugee-inhabited" countries, I tried to find evidece that it is nonetheless the No 1 target for migrants, and, as before, I find that it is not.
In 2015 the UK ranked ninth in Europe for asylum applications. No 1 was Germany with ten times as many.
And the UK has the highest refusal rate of any country.
What we do have however is a location across the sea which no doubt at least partially explains why we are actually less attractive and less populated by refugees. This also makes illegal attempts to enter our country particularly hazardous, and perhaps also particularly spectacular.
None of the above tho begins to address the issue of what to do about it.

[Spicerack]

I think you're right, andy.
I also believe they get cut off after a few months.
Or forced to take a job.
I wonder if some of our dinghy people haven't just run out of high benefit access in other European countries and come here, slumming it, as a last resort.

[goodgoalie]

Where do the French people-traffickers get the boats and lifejackets from?

[chelle7272]

A lot have family already here. A lot is to do with a reputation for being well treated here. Then there are the people smugglers, extorting money by telling migrants they will be better off here than the country they are in, even that they have jobs waiting for them.

[douglas9401]

It's the weather, obviously, and the royal family.

Two big draws in anyone's book.

[davebro]

//None of the above tho begins to address the issue of what to do about it.//

If we'd gone with my suggestion of sinking the dinghies in the channel & leaving them to drown there wouldn't be a problem now.

[sp1814]

86% of refugees settle in countries bordering the home country.

What does 5C mean?

[davebro]

fifth columnists

[sp1814]

Thank you davebro.

I really should start writing these down.

Such fun.