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30 Responses to “Help us hold the press to account for demonising refugees”
Mick
Yup, the old ‘there’s only standing room so long as we all squeeze on the Isle of Wight’ gambit.
I suppose if we continue to fill in reservoirs, build over flood plains – with tragic results – and import even more African medics to cover the ills of all the other migrants we allow, for example, then we could always build undersea colonies for our own population!
I still haven’t forgotten the letter by civic leaders to Cameron, Brown and Clegg yet! Places couldn’t cope with immigration, even years ago.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7573442/General-Election-2010-parts-of-UK-cant-cope-with-uncontrolled-immigration-leaders-warned.html
Mick
Ah, so you want IMPOSED communities of imported, unwanted masses of variable quality, surplus to requirements, just for cackhanded, cackheaded ego trips?
HOW VERY LEFTIST!
Mick
This EU woman also agrees that bulk-importing boat people, with no quality control checks, constitute your BETTER Islamofascist mix!
And, of course, being LAST safe nation in the chain increases this relevance.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/589339/ISIS-Islamic-State-Terrorists-sneaking-Europe-boats-EU-Michele-Coninsx-Eurojust
stevep
You are flailing around wasting energy trying to come up with a coherent reply.
there are HUGE tracts of land in this country owned by a small right-wing elite and have been for decades, even centuries.
If Britain can afford to erect Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, fight a pointless war to keep the arms industry happy and then dismantle it again, all at the cost of billions of pounds, it can afford to provide the resources to build a small city on, say, the Duke on Westminster`s land and still leave loads of room.
Look into your heart and show some compassion. I know it`s difficult for a brainwashed far-right drone, but try.
It could lead to something.
Mick
Ah, the names. Well you DO want imposed communities, as you’ve reiterated. Confirming my statements, then, is only a waste of time for the Left.
And if we’re talking hypotheticals, we can meet our two standpoints in the middle. For if the UK can afford to build something like Camp Bastion to protect the nation’s finest when deposing the Taliban, then maybe we can do the same for some of these boat people somewhere else, too. There are just far too many, with Germany bracing itself for a top number of 800,000, according to some reports. Where will all the jobs come from to make them useful, for a start?
And the most compassionate thing to do is make their homelands safe. Then they wouldn’t have to run that awful gauntlet of the newspapers thinking negatively about them!