Morganuk said:
beanie said:
Morganuk said:
One thing Id like you to comment on is our housing system.
Do you believe immigrants come to the UK and get prioritised above our own people in need of accommodation.
I hear so many stories and have also spoken to people who work in the council who have told me that yes immigrants are often prioritized over the British citizens?
We read in the news papers how they are given houses?
Why is this?
My opinion is like anyone if you have a child, disability etc they regardless of where you come from you should be housed.
I don't agree that single immigrants should be housed when there is in fact lots of families who need a roof over there head.
Is there more to this?
I'm not Moss but my view is that immigrants are not responsible for the housing shortage. Asylum seekers and illegal immigrants aren't entitled to benefits or housing and even then a refugee does not get preferential housing entitlement, it is based on a needs system. If anyone is to blame it is the councils for selling off their properties and not building new ones but its far easier to make immigrants the scapegoats.
No your right,it is the councils who have the say so but it does make me wonder why we keep on hearing these kind of stories. I cant help but have the opinion that we should help out are own first to a certain extent as after all it is our country. Yes if immigrants have young babies then they need housing but not single men who get filled into houses when we have families who need help.
I can totally sympathise with why a not of immigrants leave there countries but to be fair, that's not the average British persons fault so why should they be made to come second by are councils
But they're not
Immigration myths
Myth Immigrants jump housing queues and live in squalid, overcrowded housing.
Fact Most immigrants live in cities that contain plenty of empty houses London alone has 70,000.
Myth Immigrants take English jobs.
Fact Asylum seekers cant work or pay tax until their cases are sorted out. And immigrants contribute 10% more to the economy in tax and national insurance than they take in benefits and services, says a Home Office study.
Myth Immigrants are draining health and social services.
Fact Most asylum seekers are only entitled to emergency health care. And our hospitals rely on immigrant labour: nearly a quarter of NHS doctors and half of all NHS nurses were born outside the UK. Despite there being 90,000 vacancies in health and social care, thousands of refugees with appropriate skills are prevented from working here. And of the 15.5 million people in the UK on benefits, excluding retirement pensions, only 0.5% are asylum seekers.
Myth Immigrants are to blame for rising crime.
Fact Immigrants are more likely to be the victims of crime. A 2004 report showed a 75% increase in racist attacks in Scotland alone. Refugees and asylum seekers were the main targets
from
http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites ... ism/3.html
and
MYTH: The UK is a soft touch for asylum seekers.
> The idea that the UK or any other European country is a soft touch is simply
not true. As European countries introduce increasingly tougher immigration
controls, it is extremely difficult to gain entry to Europe at all. The sealing of
the Channel Tunnel and the closure of Sangatte have affected numbers
entering this country.
> In 2001 Canada granted protection to 97% of Afghan asylum applicants, where
the UK granted only 19%. Somali applicants had a 92% success rate in Canada,
whereas in the UK it was only 34%. 85% of Colombian applicants in Canada
were granted protection against 3% in the UK.
> In 2002, 8,100 (10%) people were granted asylum (before appeal), 19,965 (24%)
were granted exceptional leave to remain and 54,650 (66%) were refused
asylum
Welfare provision for asylum seekers in the UK is far from generous. They
receive payment which is one third less than basic income support.
This amounts to less than £37.77 per week 30% below the poverty line.
They are not allowed to work, even though they are very keen to seek
employment. Washing machines, TVs, videos are not provided.
> Asylum seekers are given hard-to-let properties that no-one wants in the least
popular estates in areas of multiple social problems, or are farmed out to
privately-rented flats which often are in sub-standard condition
and for those who believe immigration is taking away our British identity
MYTH: Refugees are a threat to the British way of life and to
our national identity.
> 17 Nobel Laureates, 71 Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society and 50
Fellows or corresponding Fellows of the British Academy are refugees.
- Fish and chips was brought to the UK by l7th-century Jews expelled from
Portugal.
- Alec Issigonis, who fled the war between Turkey and Greece, was the brain
behind the Mini and the Morris Minor.
at me... everyone is entitled to an opinion.