Theresa May

I totally agree with jalima, why aren't the French authorities picking up these unaccompanied children and protecting them until they can be properly processed and then appropriate care organised. It seems quite extraordinary that they are allowed to be on their own risking goodness knows what danger, and the authorities being almost oblivious!

Thank you jalima.

and
www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-14/brissenden-rise-of-china-in-the-south-pacific/4686328

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36927674
www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/historic-title-china-south-china-sea-court-160712090955493.html

etc etc

(I know nothing)

What's going on there then?

I think we need to be aware of what is going on in other regions, ie the South China Sea and the South Pacific.

OMG! (What whitewave said) Maybe she's got a point.

I think the claims of these families should be thoroughly investigated before innocent children are allowed to join them and I have no idea why the French authorities have not removed the children from the camps and put them into more suitable accommodation. If their claims are not processed soon the French should do something as a matter of urgency before the end of the summer.

Have to say that Theresa May has shown not a crumb of concern or compassion for the refugee children in Calais who could legally enter the UK because they have family settle here. Or any other refugees. Hard as nails.

Someone said that the security issues with the Chinese are connected to the computers. They could possibly put in a glitch that allowed them to shut us down completely in future if our relations went pear shaped.

I would think that being Home Secretary for 6yrs? gave her a big insight into the workings of Chinese 'security'

Eleothan it wasn't directed at you, it was more musing that 'the poor and disaffected' seem to be lumped together in an homogenous grouping, another label like 'hardworking families'.

But where has she been all this time, when Hinkley was being discussed and negotiated. What is there still to be found out? Did she not have an opinion of her own before the new government?
She has been busy being Home Secretary and was never happy about the security aspect of it - it was GO who brokered the deal.

She often spoke against it when she was Home Secretary. She told Hollonde that she wasn't happy with the deal.
"A decision was taken not to go public on the delay until after a knife- edge vote of the EDF board had been taken at around 7pm.
Seven of the company's 18 directors voted against the plan, with another resigning in protest over fears that the cost could cripple EDF"

Jalima I don't think I said all people who have sufficient money to get a mortgage/get financial support from their parents have different backgrounds from people in insecure and poorly paid jobs who are struggling to pay extortionate rents. I'm not quite sure what point you are trying to make.

Yes. But why? They could hardly, in the future, put their bit on the back of a lorry and take it away. I don't understand these concerns. I read the Chinese are very good at nuclear technology.

Vince Cable has said that TM did express concerns about the Chinese investment in Hinkley.

But where has she been all this time, when Hinkley was being discussed and negotiated. What is there still to be found out? Did she not have an opinion of her own before the new government? Very odd.

It's funny, isn't it; people assume that all components of families are the same, ie people with sufficient income to get a mortgage and perhaps financial help from parents are all from similar backgrounds and the 'poor and dispossesed' struggling to pay rent to unscrupulous landlords and going without are all from a different background.
They are not. Even in our own nuclear family there is a variation, in the wider family similar situations.

There are no doubt people for whom it is a strain to pay their mortgages and manage household bills. But at least these people have sufficient income to get a mortgage and - according to the Daily Mail - one in four is also fortunate enough to be given financial help from their parents for deposits, legal costs, etc.

There are also people in low paid, insecure jobs who are struggling to pay their extortionate rents and who probably have very little chance of owning their own home. Added to the financial strain, there is also, in many cases, the stress of having sub-standard and dangerous accommodation which they are too worried to tackle their landlords about in case, at the end of their one-year contract, they are forced out of their homes. (Recently, Conservative MPs voted to reject a proposed rule that would have required private landlords to make their homes “fit for human habitation”.)

Surely these people and their children - whose lives are disrupted by constant moves when they can no longer afford the rented accommodation in which they live - are the ones who are suffering the most and who should be the priority of a person who professes her aim is to "fight injustice and make Britain a country that works for everyone"?

The only solar panels on houses in DS's street are those on the social housing and LA old people's bungalows. The younger people with mortgages don't seem able to afford them.

I don't think she is dithering about Hinkley Point and I think she is right to make further investigations.
A very dodgy deal by GO.

Everything is shock horror!!!

Well, it did sound a bit like tarring all women with the same brush!!! Putting Hinkley C on hold at the last minute is strange I agree! Who knows why or whether it will go ahead at all!! Curiouser,and curiouser!

Apparently her Chief of Staff in her previous office had doubts about the Chinese element. So maybe she is listening to a man. Shock horror.