GillT57
Well going by some of the threads I have been reading on FB tonight, I am ashamed to be British, I really did not realise that there were so many ghastly xenophobic people. All thr usual misinformation and ignorance that some of us have tried to correct on here..........."illegals/smart phones/living in luxury hotels at taxpayers expense/blah blah blah. Why let the truth get in the way of a good racist rant eh?
Yes, it can be a really depressing experience reading comments on Facebook. And not only comments about migrants; read any article that is examining the plight of our own native Brits who're impoverished by low-wages, unemployment, disability or whatever, and you will see the same sneering contempt, sometimes expressed with expletives and, too often, barely literate.
By comparison, Gransnet is quite civilised.
Why is there so much antagonism and hatred towards those who are less fortunate? Is it simply ignorance, lack of education? I don't think it's even down to that - there are those who've not had the benefit of a decent education and are naive but don't have a nasty bone in their body.
It seems like there's some inner rage within certain people, and God (or whoever) only knows where it comes from, or what motivates these individuals.
An accident of birth, good fortune - or the lack of it - is often what separates us. We like to think that our success in life is all down to our own individual effort and though that's true to some extent, external events over which we have little or no control, can change our lives at the drop of a hat.
The migrants in those boats are people, just like us, we could be them, but for the accident of birth.
... they are our problem, Europe's problem, the western world's problem, and the 'problem' is not going to go away. Yet, the largest burden of these displaced people is on those countries near and bordering their own - some of them still regarded as 'developing' countries. This is where 85% of migrants head to and live, in varying degrees of discomfort, in camps. They do not all want to come to the UK as the media would have you believe. Many live in hope that they will one day be able to return to their homeland.
Don't be ashamed to be British, be angry that we have had successive governments that have not been honest about the issue of asylum seekers / refugees / displaced people, but instead have used it as a political football, and keep coming up with knee-jerk solutions and short-term proposals that have, so far, done nothing to solve the crisis.
