Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:41 am  

Australia have re-established their policy of offshore immigration centres. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20422055 There are plenty of remote islands in the UK. Is this something we should be looking at? Would certainly stop people vanishing into society whilst their applications are being processed. And it would make it far easier to deport people should their applications fail.

Australia have re-established their policy of offshore immigration centres. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20422055 There are plenty of remote islands in the UK. Is this something we should be looking at? Would certainly stop people vanishing into society whilst their applications are being processed. And it would make it far easier to deport people should their applications fail.

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:47 am  

The Video Ref wrote: Australia have re-established their policy of offshore immigration centres. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20422055 There are plenty of remote islands in the UK. Is this something we should be looking at? Would certainly stop people vanishing into society whilst their applications are being processed. And it would make it far easier to deport people should their applications fail. Like where? Care to suggest any?

The Video Ref wrote: Australia have re-established their policy of offshore immigration centres. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20422055 There are plenty of remote islands in the UK. Is this something we should be looking at? Would certainly stop people vanishing into society whilst their applications are being processed. And it would make it far easier to deport people should their applications fail. Like where? Care to suggest any?

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:07 am  

Australian's are keeping their undesirables on an island offshore? It's a good argument for social cycle theory.

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:12 am  

cod'ead wrote: Like where? Care to suggest any? Some remote Scottish island. But make sure it's not one that the RAF might accidentally mistake for a bombing range Take your pick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_is ... f_Scotland

cod'ead wrote: Like where? Care to suggest any? Some remote Scottish island. But make sure it's not one that the RAF might accidentally mistake for a bombing range Take your pick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_is ... f_Scotland

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Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:26 am  

The Video Ref wrote: Is this something we should be looking at? Not if we wish to retain any vestige of civilisation. Was it not a Lynton Crosby idea?

The Video Ref wrote: Is this something we should be looking at? Not if we wish to retain any vestige of civilisation. Was it not a Lynton Crosby idea?

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:10 am  

The Video Ref wrote: Some remote Scottish island. But make sure it's not one that the RAF might accidentally mistake for a bombing range Take your pick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_is ... f_Scotland And these people are housed where exactly, or do we just drop them there and leave them to fend for themselves?

The Video Ref wrote: Some remote Scottish island. But make sure it's not one that the RAF might accidentally mistake for a bombing range Take your pick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_is ... f_Scotland And these people are housed where exactly, or do we just drop them there and leave them to fend for themselves?

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:58 am  

Perhaps we could send ours to Australia's camps instead?

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:32 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

And these people are housed where exactly, or do we just drop them there and leave them to fend for themselves?

Last time we did that, this emerged.

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:58 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Last time we did that, this emerged.

Quifftastic!

On topic, why would we need immigration camps off shore? Successive government policy, and one that is being ramped up currently, is to reduce immigration, largely in response to foaming at the mouth editorials in the tabloid press, as opposed to any proper analysis. Asylum claims are pretty much static now, at around 24000 a year since 2009, compared to 49000+ in 2003 and 84000+ in 2002, so I'd say no, offshore detention camps aren't needed. Unnecessary expense for little benefit.

Re: Offshore Immigration Camps : Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:14 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

And these people are housed where exactly, or do we just drop them there and leave them to fend for themselves?

It reminds me of a 90's film called No Escape.

The island was a prison where inmates were thrown from a helicopter and left to fend for themselves and forge their own societies.

Basically what we did with Australia back in the olden days.