Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
The issues people are concerned about are things like:

Cost to taxpayer
Exploitation of the asylum system
Queue jumping and a failure to properly help those most in need.
Facilitating rganised crime
Perceived injustice of paying for accomdation when many here are homeless
Crime or the fear of crime.
Impact on areas they are housed due to closed hotels and lost business etc.
Concerns over the level of growth. From 300 a few hundred five years ago to tens of thousands now. What if that continues?

Are people not allowed to have those concerns? Do they need permission to have them?

The irony is that people who dismiss peoples concerns end up fuelling the feelings and conditions that they profess to object to. If you can't see that something needs to be done then that's up to you, but others can.
In 2018 (or thereabouts) we had 300 people crossing on boats. In 2022 the figure was 40,000.

Given your beloved Brexit was about taking control of our borders, would you say this has worked?