Cameron Shaming the Country

well, I didn't want to mention it RQ, but.........

sounds like pillow talk, rosesarered

RQ
Corby is my sweet little name for JC.

The wind must be in the wrong direction, rosesarered! All quiet here too since the breeze changed direction.

Mrs Merkel and many Germans have been very welcoming but some Germans are very rightwing and intolerant too.
Still, better than what the refugees have come from.

Ana

No, it's Corby Trouserpress, a surprise nomination sneaked in by certain members outraged by the lack of sartorial elegance displayed by at least one of the other candidates

Do you feel the whole of Corby is going to lead the Labour Party rosesarered. Interesting. I don't know if those living there know they have put themselves up for election .

mabybe next Saturday though... if Corby gets elected?

RQ, have listened hard but...... nope, no singing of the red flag/tannenbaum or anything to be heard here!

Good luck to these refugees if they end up in Austria CelticRose, not a country well known for it's welcome to differing races, and a lot of [real] fascists groups there too.
I think that a lot of Syrian refugeees would go back home later, if things improve there for the future.

I also noted on Al Jazeera yesterday that Mr Putin is in talks with Bashir al Assad in order to encourage him to allow a democratic moderate party run against his Ba ath majority party. So the exodus that started in 2011 could well turn around. There is a lot of work to be done to re-build Syria. They will need their refugees to do this. Perhaps their brethren in the Gulf states will also supply financial aid, etc.

Eloethan Your first sentence also describes Malaysia. What joins this country and the whole Arab League together is Islam. Otherwise it is being Muslim brethren - as the majority of Pakistanis are and who work in the Gulf. If I may further quote.

.... social media are bristling over the fact the rich Arab Gulf states do not offer the same welcome, there seems little likelihood the situation will change. The reason is the Gulf Arab states' aversion to granting refugee status, not just to Syrians but to anybody.

www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-rich-arab-gulf-states-wont-welcome-syrian-refugees-2015-9#ixzz3kszAwvGH

And yet, Europe is being called out on Human Rights irrespective of race, creed or religion. And yet, you read all the time that people want to go back to the land of their birth and their families. So, perhaps DC could be proved accurate in saying that the refugee crises should be dealt with in their homeland. But will we ever see Arab boots on the ground against a brother Muslim. It took them long enough to get in the air with the coalition it approved of and requested, and that was probably because IS used suicide bombers in the Gulf states.

I heard on Radio 4 today that Austria says it will take any refugees who can get to her borders. Of course this country has to given its history pre 1945 and her infamous son.

She's loud, isn't she, I can hear her from Wales!!

Keep on, djen, lovely voice

Yes, I did get that...

It's the Green Theme innit.

Well, I wish she'd pipe down! Far too early to be singing Christmas songs...

See discussion above rosesarered.
djen is going back to the original, though, and singing this version:
Rosequartz, can I sing "Oh Tannenbaum" instead?
Next line translates as how green are your leaves

Can you hear her? She has a lovely voice

that's true, the red rosette that candidates for MP used to wear, for knocking on doors and asking for votes, and the singing of 'The Red Flag' etc. Do they still sing that at meetings?I think Blair may have got rid of that somehow.

'Labour has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movement.'

I think in the US they called them 'Pinko's' rather than red.

That was how it read, though!

I was not suggesting you have any such power Jane. It was the choice of everyday people naming those they chose for this sort of singling out in the USA and the subsequent use of this "evidence" by the US government that deprived people of their basic civil liberties. You could be an instrument of the gathering of lies and gossip but not the power that carries out the non-democratic results. I imagine anyone one in that position would be standing there saying "it's wasn't me" and "after all she was a communist" with just prejudice to go on. Far from words never hurting people they can ruin lives.

Yes, djen as long as it is in the original German as we sang it in school (I don't know why, as they didn't do German lessons )

rosequartz am thrilled to discover I've got such power. Will try to use it fairly but there's always a chance I'll get completely carried away with it all! FJ

It's the problem when you have a leader voted in by a minority of the population Jen - however you calculate that. PR would make such a difference