Refugees - How will our finances cope?

Mamardoit

Yes I will take the cut and paste back. There was no need.
But the Do I win?.....What the hell was the poster getting at? It was pathetic coming from a supposedly educated adult.

Everyone is entitled to post. I've said nothing that is anti refugees.

Not the cut and paste …the “nasty”

Yes JJ your reply on the subject that fee paying schools might offer places was that my comment was "crass". I chose not to take you up on it because I do not think you are nasty and judgmental, just frustrated and irritated by the system, and seeing it from your own perspective.
I am glad we all agree that every child is precious.

I don't really want to go over my own family history but if one of my relatives hadn't got to safety here and their family followed, I wouldn't have been born. Two generations ago my family were discriminated against because of who they were and where they came from and our foreign names. Maybe to some of us it is more personal. I don't know.

Thank you for your reply Gelleh

my family member was a small child who travelled alone fwiw

I think I'm a bit exasperated. I cannot imagine putting a child on a boat, big or small and thinking that was the best thing for them.

Displacement is traumatic and just quite frankly, horrible and unnecessary in a modern world. It all just makes me so sad

I had two work colleagues who arrived as children on the kinder transport. Every member of their families perished in the camps. They were older and more experienced at our work than I was. I remember them with affection gratitude and respect fir their support and fir being such good role models
Refugees often contribute hugely to the country thst offers refuge.

I had a work colleague/friend who was a Hungarian refugee and friends (two families) who were refugees from Uganda.

I cannot imagine putting a child on a boat, big or small and thinking that was the best thing for them
My Hungarian friend arrived alone as a child and was taken in by two women. One Ugandan friend arrived alone too but has made a very good life here.

All of them have contributed enormously to this country.
They are all assets, not drains on our economy.

I should have added JaneJudge, that doing that must be from desperation and hope that someone, somewhere, would take them in and care for them.

I knew someone whose DGC were sent out to Australia under the orphan scheme. I would love to be able to find them and tell them how their grandmother never forgot them and always wanted to care for them.