Refugees

A lovely sentiment which may be mostly true, but sadly there is always one bad egg in every basket, whatever nationality.

The problem is when you look at the size of Africa and consider the number of big countries there, and then look at the size of the UK, how can we ever accommodate an endless stream of desperate arrivals year after year? There is no end.

Oh Chestnut, I wish you had been with me in my local lovely park today. You see, I live in a multicultural city, and that comes across in my park. To tell you of the Muslim families, and a father lifting his laughing daughter down from a tree that she had climbed in her princess outfit: the mixed race couples watching their children play in the water play area: the small group of migrants (there is a local house somewhere not too far) having a picnic down by the river): the boatload of women with headscarves pedalling vigorously round the boating lake giggling away: the girl with traditional dress running around...

As you say: there are indeed bad eggs from wherever, and there is no doubt that some have come for reasons that mean they need to be returned home:

But having survived from to different white men firstly a coercive abusive marriage, and last October a sexual assault from an ex methodist minister, which has laid me low

I like the O/P.

I like the O/P.

I missed the bit in the OP which said about about emptying Africa of people and depositing the entire population here?

I'm so sorry to hear of these sorrowful experiences and I hope you can recover, renew and look ahead. 💐

I haven’t seen any haggard faces in the boatloads of mainly young men coming here in small boats as economic migrants.
I used to have every sympathy in the few who applied for asylum here in the past, but no longer since the system has been massively abused in recent years.

valdali

I like the O/P.

I missed the bit in the OP which said about about emptying Africa of people and depositing the entire population here?

There are 1.6 billion people in Africa so I don't think anyone is suggesting that will happen.

They are all well dressed around here.
Nice phones, headphones, nice warm jackets & well fed.
They look quite happy to me. Whilst we with have loads of our own homeless on the streets.
That needs sorting out for sure.

Exactly Oreo Exactly.