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30 Responses to “Help us hold the press to account for demonising refugees”
JAMES MCGIBBON
So we send the benefit payments to the landed estates where there is no housing and no work. These estate are inhabitable for good reason. Why have you not suggested this idiotic plan before for the indigenous population? Who the fuck wants to live in a Highland Estate.
stevep
The estates are inhabitable because the toffs don`t want us great unwashed on them!
Incidentally large tracts of land were sequestered and used for pow camps in ww2, so there`s not much difference.
I would imagine, to a refugee used to sleeping on the side of the road, a bunk in a camp and proper facilities would be approaching luxury, but what do I know.
The proposition was a somewhat light-hearted one to see how many right-wing drones, their sycophants and trolls could be enticed from under their stones.
It seems to have worked well!
stevep
“Punishing Dukes instead of really caring” – I laughed so hard I almost passed my bag of sweets around! That one will sustain me for weeks, are you sure you`ve never worked in stand up!
Spoken like a true right wing sycophant. I can visualise the doffed cap and the brown tongue.
As for making their homelands safe, we don`t seem to have a very good record of doing that sort of thing in the Middle East. So I wouldn`t suggest it if I were you, unless of course you are on the board of one of the many UK arms manufacturers keen to keep profit levels buoyant. Then again, maybe they`re already buoyant because of the existing conflict.
The compassionate thing to do in any decent Country or state is to share wealth and resources with each other and anyone who is in need.
Oh dear, that`s left-wing thinking, isn`t it!
seventensandnine
Not many? Or none? Why don’t you take initiative and lead by example, Stevie?
There’s plenty of room there to do lots of things, including not inviting jihadists to stay over for supper.
Who appointed you to decide what other people are “obligated” to do with their own property and resources?
stevep
Who appointed you to comment on it, Seventenandninesie?
I didn`t say I obligated anyone to do anything, in fact it was up to right-wingers, that`s what would happen – nowt.
Us left-wingers have a little more compassion and infinitely more imagination.
Property and resources are at the heart of the matter – I`m glad you raised the issue.
Some people have more resources than others, the landed gentry more than most. If they saw fit to offer parts of their very considerable estates to help refugees, it would please me greatly. It would show a humanitarian response to an awful tragedy.
I expect one or two Jihadi extremists would be invited over by m`lord to share a bottle of Bolly.