Comments on: These refugees are children – but government failure has robbed them of a real childhood https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:42:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Awart https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/#comment-840446 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:42:25 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115891#comment-840446 @Martin Clarke

How did you arrived at claims about “most of them”? By what means? Surveys? TV footage doesn’t show “most of them”. Shows some and doesn’t allow to say what is the demography of the whole group. Period.

And yes, I suppose that at least a part of the children living out there do have parents or other adults looking after them.

]]> By: David Lindsay https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/#comment-838756 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:27:25 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115891#comment-838756 As they say up here, “He must have had a very tough paper round.” We’d all look older if that had been our childhood. And non-white boys always do look older to a certain sort of white person. The picture that everyone is bandying about is of a translator. Many of the rest look like many of the teenage boys, who are almost all white, in this old mining and steelworking area. That’s the School of Hard Knocks for you.

]]> By: NHSGP https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/#comment-838381 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:46:42 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115891#comment-838381 Evidence is that 60% are adults.

What are they fleeing from in France?

]]> By: Martin Clarke https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/#comment-838370 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:13:58 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115891#comment-838370 Also surely they are economic migrants as if they were genuine refugees they would have claimed asylum long before they even got to Calais

]]> By: Martin Clarke https://leftfootforward.org/2016/10/these-refugees-are-children-but-government-failure-has-robbed-them-of-a-real-childhood/#comment-838368 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:12:32 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115891#comment-838368 How can you confirm with 100% certainty that they are children? Most of them don’t look like children to me.

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