New Posts For Thread: If we had stayed in the EU would we have been able to deal with the boating migrants better?https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-betterLeaving the EU meant the UK lost access to the Dublin Regulation, which previously allowed the UK (as an island nation) to legally return asylum seekers to the first EU country they transited through and migration surged dramatically after we left.We were in the EU for the first 2 years of the dinghy migrants.The entire period - 10 years? - of the Dublin agreement we managed to get rid of a few thousand migrants (and accepted more coming the other way!) which is a couple of months worth thesehttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565619623#565619623We were in the EU for the first 2 years of the dinghy migrants.The entire period - 10 years? - of the Dublin agreement we managed to get rid of a few thousand migrants (and accepted more coming the other way!) which is a couple of months worth theseWed, 14 Oct 2026 16:58:12 -0500Stranger still, they are gleefully watching the decline and eventual destruction of the countrythat they will still have to live in,No, they won't stand by, they will rejoin.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618631#565618631Stranger still, they are gleefully watching the decline and eventual destruction of the countrythat they will still have to live in,No, they won't stand by, they will rejoin.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:16:50 -0500Nothing more dangerous than an educated simpleton.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618545#565618545Nothing more dangerous than an educated simpleton.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:52:06 -0500Why are the lefty loonies so bitter with their constant anti brexit whining, Trump derangement syndrome and Farage derangement syndrome.Day after day. Week after week. Year after year.How boring and empty their lives must be.How have they become so shttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618455#565618455Why are the lefty loonies so bitter with their constant anti brexit whining, Trump derangement syndrome and Farage derangement syndrome.Day after day. Week after week. Year after year.How boring and empty their lives must be.How have they become so sWed, 14 Oct 2026 03:10:40 -0500You make absolutely no sense, as per usual when you talk about politics, CB.Brexit returned control over immigration back to elected politicians.Before Brexit, any one of 400 million people could come here if they felt like it. Now (officially) that'https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618363#565618363You make absolutely no sense, as per usual when you talk about politics, CB.Brexit returned control over immigration back to elected politicians.Before Brexit, any one of 400 million people could come here if they felt like it. Now (officially) that'Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:35:55 -0500And Ireland, France, Germany, Spain aren't getting the same type of "bad immigration" we are getting.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618353#565618353And Ireland, France, Germany, Spain aren't getting the same type of "bad immigration" we are getting.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:18:50 -0500Wish I hadn't looked. It's much worse than I imagined. Better I stayed ignorant. Still at least I wasn't dumb enough to vote for it.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618351#565618351Wish I hadn't looked. It's much worse than I imagined. Better I stayed ignorant. Still at least I wasn't dumb enough to vote for it.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:18:24 -0500I wouldn't lay 1.01 that the illegal migration crisis we face is due to BREXIT. It clearly is. Oh and we have to pay for a very conservative extra 100,000 civil service jobs because of it, and all the extra living costs to service them.Said at thehttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618349#565618349I wouldn't lay 1.01 that the illegal migration crisis we face is due to BREXIT. It clearly is. Oh and we have to pay for a very conservative extra 100,000 civil service jobs because of it, and all the extra living costs to service them.Said at theTue, 13 Oct 2026 17:11:52 -0500Ten years on and the EU shills are still crying salty tears, they are so funny.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618197#565618197Ten years on and the EU shills are still crying salty tears, they are so funny.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:22:26 -0500It's the largest flaw in British culture. We expect other nations to have goodwill as a default toward us, like we have for other people. The reality is quite the opposite. They look for weakness. And we're certainly not short of that in modern timeshttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31912953/if-we-had-stayed-in-the-eu-would-we-have-been-able-to-deal-with-the-boating-migrants-better?post_id=565618019#565618019It's the largest flaw in British culture. We expect other nations to have goodwill as a default toward us, like we have for other people. The reality is quite the opposite. They look for weakness. And we're certainly not short of that in modern timesTue, 13 Oct 2026 12:53:48 -0500