| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:01 - Aug 20 with 413 views | Swansea_Blue |
Agreed, but we are a (half) hateful nation now so won't happen.
The journey these people make is pretty incredible when you think about it. They deserve more respect just for that. I'd love to turn the tables and stick a bunch of refugee haters in a rubber dingy and then let's see them try and cross the Channel using a shovel as an oar (let alone put up with what the refugees have been through before they reach the channel). |  |
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| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:10 - Aug 20 with 405 views | Swansea_Blue |
Also, I've not actually seen this counter narrative they're talking about in that article where people are calling for automatic hosting of all refugees. Everything I've seen is more about calls for the refugees to be given safe passage, to be treated decently and fairly when the get here and while their applications are assessed (and for that system to be improved and speeded up).
Similarly I've not seem people say it's all our fault - we have a role in some of these cases because of our foreign policies, for sure, but (a) that's only a contributory factor, and (b) we're not alone as a nation in that one either.
We receive about 44,000 asylum claims a year and typically grant 8-12,000 of them. And there are a few other categories of humanitarian relief too, leading to no more than about 20,000 permanent arrivals in any one year. I've not seen a single call for a change to that system to grant 100% asylum. | |
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| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:20 - Aug 20 with 384 views | factual_blue |
| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:10 - Aug 20 by Swansea_Blue |
Also, I've not actually seen this counter narrative they're talking about in that article where people are calling for automatic hosting of all refugees. Everything I've seen is more about calls for the refugees to be given safe passage, to be treated decently and fairly when the get here and while their applications are assessed (and for that system to be improved and speeded up).
Similarly I've not seem people say it's all our fault - we have a role in some of these cases because of our foreign policies, for sure, but (a) that's only a contributory factor, and (b) we're not alone as a nation in that one either.
We receive about 44,000 asylum claims a year and typically grant 8-12,000 of them. And there are a few other categories of humanitarian relief too, leading to no more than about 20,000 permanent arrivals in any one year. I've not seen a single call for a change to that system to grant 100% asylum. |
I am, and remain humbled (I don't like the word 'proud') by the fact that we are still a country people want to flee to.
Let's hope we never become a country people want to flee from. |  |
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| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:30 - Aug 20 with 372 views | Steve_M |
| Good piece on refugees and the political reaction to them on 10:10 - Aug 20 by Swansea_Blue |
Also, I've not actually seen this counter narrative they're talking about in that article where people are calling for automatic hosting of all refugees. Everything I've seen is more about calls for the refugees to be given safe passage, to be treated decently and fairly when the get here and while their applications are assessed (and for that system to be improved and speeded up).
Similarly I've not seem people say it's all our fault - we have a role in some of these cases because of our foreign policies, for sure, but (a) that's only a contributory factor, and (b) we're not alone as a nation in that one either.
We receive about 44,000 asylum claims a year and typically grant 8-12,000 of them. And there are a few other categories of humanitarian relief too, leading to no more than about 20,000 permanent arrivals in any one year. I've not seen a single call for a change to that system to grant 100% asylum. |
Bloodsworth is fairly leftish so he must have seen that, I've certainly seen the self-flagelatory 'it's all our fault' a few times.
The greater failing nationally remains allowing Farage to set the agenda, again. But then it suits this government to have a distraction from their other very obvious failings. |  |
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