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Gosh you would hardly credit that we have what is universally acknowledged as the greatest humanitarian disaster since WW2 unfolding on the doorstep of Europe.
Take Syria, 10 million men women and children have been bombed or driven out of their homes. That does not include the quarter of a million that didn’t move and where slaughtered. 4 million are now out of the country. The majority in the living hell of huge shanty refugee camps with no work or possessions and with minimal hope of return. All that has happened in 3 years. They make up the majority of the 200,000 that washed up in Italy and Greece last year. All that in a country that the UN considered a “middle income” state in 2011.
Then there is Lybia no civil war there! A totally failed state! No police, Law, no work, no hope and summary execution at the will of which ever faction controls your town today. A bit further and there is Somalia in similar situation and the stories coming out of the largely closed Eritrea are telling of a state along the lines of Pol Pot’s Cambodia without the genocide yet. The list goes on.
The situation is very grave, ask anyone who knows the real story. Ask Farage who demanded 2 years ago that Cameron take in Syria refugees saying that it was the duty of all western countries to offer asylum to those fleeing for their lives. Rather shamefacedly he backtracked 36 hours later after hearing the views of his “people’s army”.
To those that say “they are nothing to do with us let them die, as long as they don’t come here I don’t care what happens to them” I have a respect for their honesty. But those that hide behind weasel words such as they only come for our benefits and it’s a positive choice, or they are all economic immigrants, or look at their clothes, or that they don’t observe the bureaucracy and jump queues when there is no bloody queue because we are letting none in I really wonder who are they trying to kid? Themselves?
I don’t have an answer, but I do know that burying our heads in the sand won’t help at all and I will look at those young men sheltering in wet blankets under polythene in Calais with as kind an eye as I can.
Dick
Its the total lack of empathy or understanding that I find saddening. I thought I had heard it all until someone mentioned the lads at Calais in designer gear where better dressed then his good self? I can give him the number of my tailor if he wants
meanwhile Isis camped 400 miles from italy..a situation that we are collectively responsible for..