| Migrant Breakfast Benefits 13:25 - Aug 9 with 22065 views | Mullet |
I get she's a Daily Heil right-wing shill, but apart from this being a classic from their playbook it does raise a really interesting question about using child poverty as political currency doesn't it?
Having seen kids who go hungry regularly, it seems a bit odd to do the whole "these barges are too luxurious/not punishing enough" routine whilst highlighting one of the biggest sources of shame caused by the government's approach. |  |
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| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 08:28 - Aug 12 with 923 views | DJR |
| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 08:07 - Aug 12 by GlasgowBlue |
Is that true? I can’t find anything in this story and hadn’t heard it before.
The UK has agreed to fund a detention centre in France which is entirely different but I can’t see any proposals from the French government offering to build a refugee processing centre for the UK in France.
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I don't know whether it is true, but my view is that the government wouldn't want to go down that route in any event, most certainly because it would regard it as a draw. [Post edited 12 Aug 2023 8:29]
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| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 10:14 - Aug 12 with 834 views | GlasgowBlue |
Neither link says that France has offered to pay for building a processing centre.
I don’t disagree with your point that the government would be reluctant to go down that route.
There is a proposal that the UK are going to finance a detention centre in Callais. Which is completely different to a processing centre. [Post edited 12 Aug 2023 10:18]
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| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 08:27 - Aug 13 with 727 views | DJR |
| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 10:14 - Aug 12 by GlasgowBlue |
Neither link says that France has offered to pay for building a processing centre.
I don’t disagree with your point that the government would be reluctant to go down that route.
There is a proposal that the UK are going to finance a detention centre in Callais. Which is completely different to a processing centre. [Post edited 12 Aug 2023 10:18]
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Sorry, I didn't read the tweet that closely and hadn't picked up on the fact it mentioned the French would be contributing to the cost.
That is clearly a nonsense because why would the French pay for something that isn't their problem?
As it is, a bit of digging shows that the tweet is fake news, because it is a fake account which appears to be designed to pander to the prejudices of Remainers and lefties. Indeed, there is some suggestion it may be a bot.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-curious-case-of-rs-archer/
https://www.logically.ai/articles/rs-archer-thread-brexit
Luckily, I am not on social media so don't receive this sort of nonsense, but generally if I come across something from someone I've never heard of I do like to find out who they are.
Sadly though, as the old saying goes (and it is more apt now than ever), a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
EDIT: here's further evidence of fake news from the account.
https://fullfact.org/online/Boris-Johnson-heckle-tweet/
https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-fake-tweet/ [Post edited 13 Aug 2023 11:35]
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| Migrant Breakfast Benefits on 18:35 - Aug 23 with 437 views | DJR |
Sunak bangs on about the cost of housing asylum seekers, but the cost comes out of the overseas aid budget.
Overseas aid has been cut from 0.7% of GDP to 0.5% anyway, and out of the reduced aid budget 29% is taken up by the cost of the asylum system according to Private Eye.
One consequence is a 49% cut in aid to Africa, no doubt creating further instability there and elsewhere in the world, thus making the refugee problem worse.
A decent man, but Andrew Mitchell, the Minister, has definitely been sold an immoral pup. | | | |
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