Drowned refugee children

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

See the ones going bonkers in Budapest railway station? Don't think they've washed up out of a capsized rubber boat! Not exactly humbly asking for help are they?

[matelot]

With respect of your entitlement to your own opinion, that is someones child.

 

It is a very moving photograph. But does it mean we all get weepy and send P&O ferries to pick up Syrians from Turkey?

[eggsarascal]

We should 'Round up' some of 'The Boys' and shoot the bastards as soon as they get to Dover!

Edited September 3, 2015 by eggsarascal

[john p]

The milk of human kindness flows like treacle on this forum.

[Wood wasp]

Europe should not be accepting or encouraging migrants for the simple reason it sends the signal that the door is open. And all that does is encourage more and more boat people thus exaggerating the crisis.

 

The cure is not for Africa/Middle East to move to Europe en masse but for the troubled areas to achieve resolution of their issues... And that's a whole other debate.

[TIMON]

What we need is a balanced immigration policy.

My wife is American and works here in the UK for the same charity I do. (Helping people to break free from addiction and dependent lifestyles)

She doesn't claim benefits. she has generated her own support base in the US to finance the work she does here. Most drug rehabs in the UK that rely on government funding are closing because the funding is being cut. (Itself another topic) We have been married for 4 years but she can't get a spousal visa for the UK. Being volunteers we don't earn enough to qualify. Surely such a contribution to society would qualify her for a visa. But seeings as the visa process is a purely box ticking exercise there is no weighing of merit in individual cases.

It really seems unfair when I consider the recent situations where people who have been involved in terrorism etc.. are not only allowed to stay in the UK but treated like VIP's along with their families.

It seems like we swallow a camel and strain at a gnat.

[timbernut]

Imagine we (the 'native'? inhabitants of the British Isles) are on our inflatable 'Good Ship GB', things are comfortable but never perfect, unfortunately some the other ships on the ocean aren't doing quite so well and their passengers and crews (good and bad) are abandoning ship, for various reasons, and not necessarily women n children first.

We, being the compassionate and caring (generally) crew that we are, lob over life belts haul people in and generally help out a bit but they keep coming and always need help and they don't always want to pull their weight once on board and some even want us to sink.

At what point do we have to turn away and say sorry but if we take any more we're going to sink n all?!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The milk of human kindness flows like treacle on this forum.

 

Just like Islam into the UK

 

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[/ame] Edited September 3, 2015 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Imagine we (the 'native'? inhabitants of the British Isles) are on our inflatable 'Good Ship GB', things are comfortable but never perfect, unfortunately some the other ships on the ocean aren't doing quite so well and their passengers and crews (good and bad) are abandoning ship, for various reasons, and not necessarily women n children first.

We, being the compassionate and caring (generally) crew that we are, lob over life belts haul people in and generally help out a bit but they keep coming and always need help and they don't always want to pull their weight once on board and some even want us to sink.

At what point do we have to turn away and say sorry but if we take any more we're going to sink n all?!

 

Exactly.

[hamdogg]

 

 

 

This thread will go the way of all the usual political et al threads; lefty vs righty, same old.

 

 

Hate the leftys!!! 😡