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The pictures of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found washed up on a beach in Antalya, Turkey, appear to have (finally) brought it home to the British commentariat that more must be done to help those refugees currently fleeing from war and dictatorship.
As such, David Cameron is coming under increasing pressure to let in more refugees. Up to now the prime minister has responded that Britain is doing a great deal to help refugees – but by spending money on aid to be sent to the areas where people are fleeing in the first place.
But are the prime minister’s critics right – should Britain take in more refugees? Or is Britain, as the PM likes to point out, already doing its bit?
Have your say – the results of the poll will be published early next week.
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94 Responses to “Poll: Should Britain take in more refugees?”
Your Dad
As much as I agree with the basic point of your post, I have to take you to task on your spelling and punctuation because it was driving me crazy just reading it. Allow me to help you :
Let’s go to England. We will get free N.H.S, a free house & free benefits. We will get everything. When we (UK) public cannot even get a house, lots of people have been on the council house waiting list for years and haven’t got anywhere. We are not racist, we simply cannot accept more immigrants. David Cameron and the rest of them need to wake up and smell the coffee. Nearly half, or more, of the UK public are jobless, we don’t have money to spend to donate to help these internationals, our tax and N.I. money is being spent on them.
We donate for our own charities like cancer and the homeless.
Oh, and mentioning the homeless, there is a massive homeless crisis. These people have probably worked all of their lives and have hit financial difficulties, which has resulted in them losing their homes and families but yet they are still sleeping in doorways. Try helping us (UK) instead of helping others. If this happens and the big guys let all these people in the country, that’s it, the country will go downhill. We will be in debt, companies will cut jobs like they have done with the police jobs . We, as British people don’t have a say in the matter. If it were the other way round and the UK hit bad times and we had to flee the country, no one would take us in. We are the mothering country and always have helped other countries. But no more. This has to stop now.
Your Dad
Nail on the head.
Your Dad
Because the people’s opinions don’t bloody count other than General Elections. !!
Your Dad
Couldn’t agree more.
Your Dad
That was brilliant. All those words and not one bit of punctuation between them. Good job. I can see the British education system is really on top form !!