The UK’s broken asylum system

[Beebo]

Not really. I drove through the existing check on the Austria Germany border earlier this year. One bored polizei leaning on his car watching everyone drive past at normal speed.

Last time I drove to France (2022) the checks on the Belgian border were far more extensive. Two bored gendarmes and all traffic had to slow to a crawl.

Also, it’s only checkpoints on main routes.
It isn’t hard to find a quiet country lane to cross over if you really want to.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Not really. I drove through the existing check on the Austria Germany border earlier this year. One bored polizei leaning on his car watching everyone drive past at normal speed.

I think the additional checks start this week, but I know what you mean. Germany has such a big, rural, land border that you could just pop over the mountains like the Von Trapps if you wanted to, weather permitting. Not sure how they will ensure no crossings.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not really. I drove through the existing check on the Austria Germany border earlier this year. One bored polizei leaning on his car watching everyone drive past at normal speed.

Last time I drove to France (2022) the checks on the Belgian border were far more extensive. Two bored gendarmes and all traffic had to slow to a crawl.

The crossing from Hungary into Austria on the Budapest/Vienna motorway is nearly always manned, traffic reduced to a crawl and often quite backed-up. Occasionally have to wave a passport....

 

[Bazzer]

.... Germany has such a big, rural, land border that you could just pop over the mountains like the Von Trapps if you wanted to, weather permitting.....

As my wife and I discovered accidentally, that was possible even before the fall of the Berlin wall. Only we did it from Germany into Czechoslovakia.

 

[icowden]

Good article from the beeb today about refugees leaving the Bibby Stockholm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6jp4l5gyqo

It's notable that the cost of an asylum seeker is £4,300 per month roughly. Cedrick has been here since March so that's £30,100. Had his asylum claim been processed in March, some of that money could have been used to help him get settled somewhere and perhaps even pay for him to do a QTS course (£8400) or QTS assessment (£1500 to £4000) only to convert his Cameroonian teaching into something accepted in the UK and he would now be filling a teaching post, earning money and paying tax and national insurance.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Good article from the beeb today about refugees leaving the Bibby Stockholm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6jp4l5gyqo

It's notable that the cost of an asylum seeker is £4,300 per month roughly. Cedrick has been here since March so that's £30,100. Had his asylum claim been processed in March, some of that money could have been used to help him get settled somewhere and perhaps even pay for him to do a QTS course (£8400) or QTS assessment (£1500 to £4000) only to convert his Cameroonian teaching into something accepted in the UK and he would now be filling a teaching post, earning money and paying tax and national insurance.

Yeah, if only we had a shortage of teachers tho'but....