Tories in chaos over Ukrainian refugee entry visas
Good cop/bad cop? Priti Patel says she’s trying to find ways to let more refugees into the UK – but her pal Boris Johnson reckons the current situation, that has allowed just 50 people into the UK, is fine.
Can anybody explain the lunacy over entry visas for Ukrainian refugees to come into the UK? Is the confusion simply because the Tories don’t want them here?
We know that the UK has granted just 50 visas so far – 12 days into the Russia-Ukraine war.
We know Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she is exploring legal options to grant humanitarian access to people without family ties to the UK or third-party sponsorship, after the government was criticised for restricting admission to the country in those ways.
But we also know – now – that Boris Johnson has denied that a third way in would be opened. It seems he reckons that many more than 50 people have already been allowed in – although he wouldn’t provide a figure. “I can’t give you the number, we’re processing thousands right now,” he said.
It seems clear that under Johnson – yet again – the UK is saying one thing and doing another.
He said we were the first to introduce sanctions against Russia; we’re the last.
He said we were accepting thousands of Ukrainian refugees and we’ve taken in just 50.
He says whatever he thinks will make him look good – and it seems he is too stupid to understand that we can see through him.
And we can:
Priti Patel says no one is being turned away at the border.
British man, David, on @SkyNews with Ukrainian wife and their two children stopped at Calais by UK Border Control.@pritipatel stop playing games with the lives of people fleeing for their lives.
— Bill Esterson (@Bill_Esterson) March 6, 2022
This poor family on Sky news right now… British man can’t get into the U.K. with his Ukrainian wife and children. It’s madness.
— Bronwen 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #proEU (@Marlen9165) March 6, 2022
In a letter to Priti Patel, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin says that 150 Ukrainian refugees have been turned back at Calais by Border Force officials, accusing the Home Secretary of a "lack of humanity" and a"completely unsuitable" response.
— Mark Easton (@BBCMarkEaston) March 6, 2022
NEW: Home Office reveals only "around 50" visas have been granted under the Ukraine Family Scheme as of today.
So far 5,535 applications have been submitted online and 2,368 people have booked visa appts to submit applications/biometric data in person
— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) March 6, 2022
At the rate of 50 visas in ten days we'll have handed out the 200,000 the Government promised with great fanfare sometime in the year 2132.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) March 6, 2022
Perpignan SW France. Today Received 200 refugees including 100 children from Ukraine. They sent buses to collect them from Poland. The donations and hospitality has been amazing.
UK?
— David Jackson🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇪🇺 (@dijay1) March 6, 2022
This is not an inability to achieve a stated aim within an acceptable time.
It is a political choice to turn refugees away. Is it because Boris Johnson secretly supports Putin?
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No it’s not because he supports Putin. It’s because he’s running scared of his involvement with dirty Russian oligarchs and money. And more importantly he’s stuck between wanting to look tough and popular, and wanting to avoid infuriating the brexity racists who voted for him because he “got brexit done”; which of course was achieved in large part with Russian money laundered through Vote.Leave and Johnson’s acquiesence with covert Russian interference in the 2016 referendum and 2019 election.
It just goes to prove that the Tories don’t care what people generally think, but must believe their own supporters will be pleased they are keeping refugees out. Or else why would they so blatantly continue with a policy of ignoring refugee status and ask desperate people to register in advance of entry to this country?
We of course know why, and modern conservatives are a disgrace to the human race.
The obvious answer as to why the fascist tories are claiming one thing and doing the opposite is because they don’t want any foreign refugees to enter their pristine little england! I am surprised Priti Patel and little fascist dictator duck johnson haven’t both been deported since the former has migrant parents and the latter boy was born in USA not little england!
This is typical fascist dogma – hating foreign refugees and refusing them any humanitarian aid! But this is not a new policy for decades nay over a century the boy politicians have done their utmost to refuse entry to refugees!
BUT – greedy billionaire Russian men are given a gold visa and immediate entry to little england because these individuals have donate huge sums to the fascist tory coffers! Note too none of these Russian men were subjected to ‘fake security checks’ because their huge wealth was security in itself and guaranteed them immediate access to little fascist dicator duck johnson!
Shame on little england and the fascist tory dictatorship – they are showing little england to be a backwood isolated little island because even right wing Poland and Hungary are providing real assistance to the Ukranian women, children and men! And not forgetting Slovakia!