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WE are all aware from reports in the media that people smugglers are now introducing bigger boats on the ‘English Channel Run’ from France, recently seeing one containing no fewer than 230 males all around the 20-35-year age bracket (at a lifetime cost to the taxpayer of £25 million).
At the same time, according to YouGov research, there has been an eight per cent increase in the number of Britons wanting to see fewer or no migrants from Israel, up from 39 per cent in 2016 to 47 per cent today, with the Green Party and their supporters in particular supporting this partisan view. I am at a loss as to why this is so and why the Green Party are so keen that the UK should accept predominantly males, with no money, no jobs and who will ultimately obtain taxpayer-funded benefits the moment they are accepted here, yet the Greens are resistant only to predominantly self-sufficient migrants from Israel. Meanwhile, Jewish, Muslim and Christian migrant people, some 500-800 of mixed age and sex, many as families, as a provisional Home Office estimate, moved from Israel to the UK in the past 12 months. The Home Office advises that Israelis invariably arrive via air through official immigration channels and makes clear that passenger-arrival figures from Israel include huge numbers of visitors and repeat trips and aren’t directly comparable with visa grants. Israelis do not expect support from the UK government and do not expect councils to provide information in Hebrew, as they speak this country’s mother tongue. Many who do remain start businesses themselves that ultimately pay rent, rates, taxes, NI and employ people, and the owners also integrate fully into the communities where they settle. And they tend, as a rule, to respect the laws of the UK. Could someone from the Green Party explain why this is, please, as I find it rather strange that 500-800 people from Israel, moving to Britain in a year, all much more likely to be coming through normal economic, educational or family channels than through asylum, are such a threat compared to some expected 100,000 or more illegal asylum seekers during the same 12-month period? Personally, I would prefer to have a working and integrated migrant from Israel living next door to me, rather than hostels or HMOs full of unemployed migrants who most probably will take, rather than give, to the UK economy.
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