I just hope that some of those commenting on here have read the story about the homeless children that I put on this site. It reminded me of two things.
1. In 1976, I left my job as a Hotel Manager, a long story, but suffice to say I was working on average well over 100 hours a week and often 7 days a week, other matters were policies I could not agree with such as cutting certain jobs etc, I'd had enough. Unfortunately by leaving I was also losing my accommodation and with a wife plus a baby and a two year old I had to return to Blackpool and stay with my mother. Because I had 'purposely made myself homeless', I could not get any help either monetarily or for accommodation and had it not been for the help of both sets of parents would have been out on the streets.
2. Whilst working for the National Union of Licensed Victuallers, I was called to a member's pub who had locked himself and his family in the pub and refused to leave. His rent had doubled but his trade would not be sufficient to pay the rent the Brewery were asking for. He was classed the same as I had been in 1976, if he left voluntarily he would have 'purposely made himself homeless'. I therefore had to advise him to lock himself in and be ejected by the brewery so that accommodation would have to be found for him, and that was precisely what happened.
There are, unfortunately, many people in the UK who are in the same boat, if they are the right words to use, who were born and brought up here and need help, due to no fault of there own. In my book, they should be a priority.
I am all for allowing those in need to apply and be granted asylum, from places such as Syria and Ukrain, but as has been said on here, there appear to be a great deal of single young men from various safe countries trying to gain access to our shores, a lot I have read, have disposed of their passports and other documentation. We don'I know who they are, what age they are or if they have a criminal background. I just hope we are taking DNA samples from them all, so that if they are refused asylum and try again to enter the UK they can be deported immediately. I know these words won't go down well with some, but, it has to be taken into account when processing these people.
It's often stated that Germany and France are taking more in than we are, but if we consider the relative size of those countries and populations to our own, a simple they are taking more than us does not mean anything.
I may sound cruel and uncaring, but something has to be done to solve the situation, and I can't presently see any party solving it by being soft.