Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
That is not true.

Several posters on here have taken the trouble to provide you with a programme of detailed and well thought through measures that would provide at least a partial solution. You just don't like the answer.

Instead of safe routes, ability to make asylum claims before arrival, sped up processing by the Home Office, effective international action against people smugglers and much else you prefer to stick with Tory gesture politics and the massively expensive and stupid Rwanda policy that barely scratches the surface and is supposed to deter the small boats (but is a total failure on every count).

You ignore the posts that demolish your stance and continue to claim that something (even if stupid and expensive) is better than nothing. You have certainly taken a hiding!
Sorry, but they are not solutions, let alone 'demolish a stance'. Let's go through it:

Ability to make asylum claims before arrival - likely to lead to a huge increase in claims. Increases the numbers coming and to be processed. Would France support this? Would it actually stop people still coming on boats anyway? Why believe they will patiently wait in France etc? If people are calmly applying for asylum in their origin destinations then are they really likely to be the most needy?

Sped up processing by the home Office - easy to say but how in practice are you doing that or are you cutting corners? The govt hasnt changed in ten years, yet the claims have massively increased so clearly something has changed - a change of govt in Afghanistan is of course a part of that, but what else

Effective international action against people smugglers - Completely agree. They are scum of the earth and it's good to see some arrested yesterday in relation to the channel deaths but again, far easier said than done. I'd love to see more of it.

So no, I havent seen what I would view as a viable set of solutions. Jesus, it took about a year to get some to accept that the highest number by far being Albanian people was clear evidence of mass abuse of the system! Thankfully that has now been largely sorted at least, that is something.

This is my point. Loads of you want to just blame the govt (and to an extent that's fair) but I don't think you aren't going to solve the issue by doing that.