As some 8,000 are already here, there has already been a numbers-creep, and it’s only been a month!
Edited to add: And they’ve already started complaining about the time it’s taking to give them their own houses (often for families of 8) and the delay in the chain-migration they’re expecting to bring their extended families here (who will, no doubt, also expect further chain-migration).
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John McGibbon
2 years ago
I read just earlier today about a relocated Afghan who was complaining the housing provided wasn’t close to leafy parks in a wealthy area, nor where he wanted to live in the UK.
I sense much disappointment may be around the corner, particularly for those that had their snouts in the trough of Afghan corruption.
From Sky News:
An Afghan man was arrested in the UK for raping and killing a 13 year old girl in Austria. 13.9.21
Afghan arrested in Manchester on Terrorist charges
11.9 21
From The Times:
Afghans caught stealing nappies from supermarkets
8.9.21
And my personal favourite from Wigan Today
MP calls for Wigan Hotel to stop housing Asylum Seekers After Incident Involving School Girls (The MP is Lisa Nandy who paraded around Wigan with a sign saying ‘Refugees Welcome’ until they weren’t.)
22.9.21
Yes, it’s all going so well.
Eddie Johnson
2 years ago
“It is something which is glossed over by those who peddle rather simplistic ‘intolerant Britain versus tolerant EU’ narratives.”
In its November 2018 report, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ranked Ireland second worst among EU states (jointly with Austria) for violence to black people. The UK was second best, after Portugal.
Similarly, the YouGov–Cambridge Globalism survey (2020) found that 28% of Britons believed the benefits of immigration outweighed the costs, compared with 24% in Germany, 21% in France and 19% in Denmark. A further 20% of British people believed the costs and benefits were about equal, while 16% were not sure.” (Guardian).
A recent Pew study also arrived at similar conclusions, as did the much maligned 2021 report by the UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, yet the wokeist Left and the race relations industry persist in portraying this country as a racist, xenophobic hellhole.
No one is disputing that racism still exists in Britain, but comparatively speaking we still perform better than most other European countries, who bizarrely are held up as models for us to emulate.
when compared with the militant colour-blindness contained in France’s rigidly secular universalism
You mean actually treating people without favour, no matter which group they belong to?
Niels Georg Bach
2 years ago
Danish experience tells, that they are just as difficult to handle s other muslims. Low labour participation from women. – Which as far as I know isn’t a big issue in the UK. But other nordic protestantic countries, they are expected to join the labour market. Not because of the money, they can never pay the full cost of being a member of our society. But the gain better knowledge about the society, which means a lot when raising kids.
Dustshoe Richinrut
2 years ago
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Taliban are probably still trying to work out how they will integrate themselves back into Afghan society. A big problem for them.
It will not just be 20,000.
As some 8,000 are already here, there has already been a numbers-creep, and it’s only been a month!
Edited to add: And they’ve already started complaining about the time it’s taking to give them their own houses (often for families of 8) and the delay in the chain-migration they’re expecting to bring their extended families here (who will, no doubt, also expect further chain-migration).
I read just earlier today about a relocated Afghan who was complaining the housing provided wasn’t close to leafy parks in a wealthy area, nor where he wanted to live in the UK.
I sense much disappointment may be around the corner, particularly for those that had their snouts in the trough of Afghan corruption.
There is a Whatsapp video going around of an Afro-Caribean lady talking about her son who is a Chef. The Afghans refuse to be in the same room as him.
So much for integrations
From Sky News:
An Afghan man was arrested in the UK for raping and killing a 13 year old girl in Austria. 13.9.21
Afghan arrested in Manchester on Terrorist charges
11.9 21
From The Times:
Afghans caught stealing nappies from supermarkets
8.9.21
And my personal favourite from Wigan Today
MP calls for Wigan Hotel to stop housing Asylum Seekers After Incident Involving School Girls (The MP is Lisa Nandy who paraded around Wigan with a sign saying ‘Refugees Welcome’ until they weren’t.)
22.9.21
Yes, it’s all going so well.
“It is something which is glossed over by those who peddle rather simplistic ‘intolerant Britain versus tolerant EU’ narratives.”
In its November 2018 report, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ranked Ireland second worst among EU states (jointly with Austria) for violence to black people. The UK was second best, after Portugal.
Similarly, the YouGov–Cambridge Globalism survey (2020) found that 28% of Britons believed the benefits of immigration outweighed the costs, compared with 24% in Germany, 21% in France and 19% in Denmark. A further 20% of British people believed the costs and benefits were about equal, while 16% were not sure.” (Guardian).
A recent Pew study also arrived at similar conclusions, as did the much maligned 2021 report by the UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, yet the wokeist Left and the race relations industry persist in portraying this country as a racist, xenophobic hellhole.
No one is disputing that racism still exists in Britain, but comparatively speaking we still perform better than most other European countries, who bizarrely are held up as models for us to emulate.
They will not integrate.
They are not wanted.
You mean actually treating people without favour, no matter which group they belong to?
Danish experience tells, that they are just as difficult to handle s other muslims. Low labour participation from women. – Which as far as I know isn’t a big issue in the UK. But other nordic protestantic countries, they are expected to join the labour market. Not because of the money, they can never pay the full cost of being a member of our society. But the gain better knowledge about the society, which means a lot when raising kids.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Taliban are probably still trying to work out how they will integrate themselves back into Afghan society. A big problem for them.
I certainly hope you are right, Doctor.