Too sad to talk about really

There is no easy answer to the boat people from Africa, if there was, it would have been sorted by now.

By "Grannies" I meant members of Gransnet

Anyone going to the Mediterranean for their holidays this year?
What will happen when the rest of the bodies start washing up on the beaches because we had no humanity?

Oh don't be so melodramatic, durhamjen.

And speak for yourself when you say 'we' had no humanity.

I take it your hairdresser didn't ask you where you were going on holiday, durhamjen?

If she did I bet she's regretting it.

A letter in today's Guardian, magpie.

"Will someone please explain the moral difference between the politicians who closed Britain’s door to Jews fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany and those who now want to shut out people trying to escape from the disaster that has engulfed them in North Africa and the Middle East? As long as we try to evade our fundamental human duty to them (never mind our share of the responsibility for their plight), we can contribute nothing to resolving this tragedy."

I consider myself to have humanity, Ana. When I say we, I mean those British who want to send refugees back where they came from, or allow them to drown in the Mediterranean. They actually do it in my name, and the names of others who disagree with them.
The Mediterranean, for God's sake! I've visited these places where the bodies are being washed up now. I'm sure many of you have, too.

What would your answer be jendurham?

Apologies for getting your name the wrong way round