Too sad to talk about really

whitewave, your post popped up just as I'd read the link jendurham put on another thread about an article written in the Sun by Katie Hopkins.

I could weep

It's so terribly sad that people are driven to such desperate extremes, I can't get my head around the numbers involved.
The situation seems to be getting worse by the day.
Tragic and heartbreaking.

Sorry I ought to have said, Katie Hopkins was celebrating the fact so many people attempting to reach Europe drowned. she referred to them as 'cockroaches'.

Yes, I should have put it on here.

How can she think like that? How can the editor of the Sun have passed it as suitable to publish? I hope even Sun readers think that is beyond the pale.

www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/04/18/you-don-t-deal-with-katie-hopkins-by-calling-the-police

Well I would love to have held that little "cockroach" with the pink feet, and saved her.

whitewave, so would I.

Whatever one's personal thoughts may be on immigration, that is so sad, so many are involved and it is not a one/off. Also I nearly wept reading and seeing those people who had been burned- had horrific injuries and were in a sinking boat for days without treatment obviously. There does not appear to be a solution- they paid so much to be treated like scum- horrendous.

"Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants"

Perhaps she should go and visit some of these.

What a *** nasty B** that woman is.

Fill in the asterisks to your own satisfaction.

I read that the traffickers take their money, then give them just enough fuel to reach halfway. I don't know if that is true or not.
I also heard that Christians were thrown overboard by other people on board.

This is just horrendous.

What a perfectly dreadful woman. Is there a case for the Press Complaints Commission to be involved? I am all for free speech, but this is truly beyond the pale.

Those poor poor people must be so desperate to take such a risk for themselves and for their children. Whatever the problems that a huge influx of migrants might cause in a host country, we cannot simply ignore their desperation.

Reports are that the poor souls are given some ( not enough) water and a compass and cast adrift towards Italy. This last tragedy, today was caused by a rush of people on the boat, all grabbing to get to rescue boat, this caused boat to over turn. Katie Hopkins doesnt even merit discussion, all publicity is oxygen to her, so I for one shall deprive her of it.

I don't really know what to say, these stories are so horrifying, so beyond human endurance.... and yet there will always be more willing to risk their lives.
It is so painful to consider just how unbearable their lives have become that they would be willing to give all they have to people traffickers, risk everything - their lives and their children's lives - in the desperate hope that they may reach a better life.
I don't even want to waste my breath on Katie Hopkins. That woman is vile and I would dearly love to see her forced to live in the squalid third world slums that crun has linked.

Do people really read that paper?

I suppose they must or it would fold.

I don't know why the article was given publicity on here.

The article itself wasn't, Ana. However, I put the link on to politics.co.uk to show what other people think of it after Iam64 mentioned it.

I don't see any problem publishing it here, I won't to know what this vicious person I saying next.

Apparently the traffickers also phone the Italian coast guards to say the refugees are coming, as well as ensuring that the boats are as unseaworthy as possible so as not to waste resources-sick b.....ds

Why isn't our government and other European countries doing something to help the Italians? Why should they deal with this problem on their own? It's horrendous. Imagine if we were getting daily boatloads of refugees coming a cross the channel and drowning, and thousands landing on the Isle of Wight, wouldn't we expect other nations to help? And why are these peope trying to escape from their own countries? If there was ever an argument for increasing foreign aid, there must be one here surely.

By 'on here' I meant Gransnet. You also brought up the subject and posted the same link on another thread before this one, durhamjen.

But as pompa implies, some people like to know what vitriol is being spouted in the media.

Katie Hopkins was interviewed on Radio 4 this week. She needs to be talked about to exist as a 'name'. I for one will no longer respond in any way to anything she says no matter how appalling. If we could all ignore she might just fade away.

I think the point is being missed here. My little "cockroach" will never have heard of KH and she matters not a jot. What does matter is that babies and children are losing their lives in an attempt to flee from the horrors of war towards a better future. Unfortunately our country appears to have turned it's back. How can we, where is our compassion?