The Earl of Chesterfield, on 24 July 2021 - 08:17 AM, said:
That's why these poor people risk everything to get to the west.
And please, can we stop peddling lies about them being handed lives of luxury upon arrival? Sure it's luxury compared to where they've come from, but they're usually placed into processing centres which're little more than prisons.
For every warped, Hopkins-esque trope about them fleecing us taxpayers, there's a genuine story of the misery they face.
Hell, it's only a couple of months since this country, one with a laudable record of offering sanctuary to the desperate, was found guilty of breaching human rights in detention camps.
And don't give me any more myths about us being swamped by immigrants - we actually take a fraction of countries like Germany and France.
Then what happened to "Taking control of our borders"? What happened to Scammer promises of Brexit meaning some sort of end to these latter day boat people? It's still only a few short years since Farage stood on the White Cliffs of Dover declaring as much whilst the absurd Anne Widdecombe got in everyone's way when showing up on the French coast.
'Leave' voters must be absolutely furious at being so blatantly conned.
Or maybe not.
There's the equally blatant hypocrisy of the same vultures demanding we all but 'let 'em drown' demanding we slash foreign aid, too. The tiny percentage of our national wealth spent on alleviating issues at source withdrawn whilst billions vanishes into the pockets of tory cronies. You have to be either mouth gapingly stupid or wilfully ignorant not to understand that simple connexion.
Nah, since the first homo sapiens ventured out of Africa folk've sought better lives. The modern world is infinitely more complicated given climate change - summat else those occupying the Trumpian Venn diagram nexus instantly forget - poverty and political persecution. So for all the Right's demonisation to deflect from their corruption - moral and financial - human beings will always cross borders.
Yet instead of working with our neighbours to address that fact the latest in a decade of governments pandering to the selfish in society eschews such cooperation.
Leading to the utterly ridiculous scenario of those who said the EU could "whistle" for any money paying them tens of millions...
Lives of luxury? I never said luxury, that's your interpretation. However, please show evidence to the contrary of what I wrote and I'll show you real evidence of what I said.
Beyond that...got nothin? Come on. Why here; why this country?