On another thread today somebody said it was the first time that posts on GN had made her weep. This thread’s the same.
It seems to me there are 2 things going on here.
There are people who cannot conceive that they or their families could ever be in such a situation. They can’t conceive that they might have been born into a situation which is untenable for them, where their very existence is threatened daily. Where they can’t live the life they want. Not flat screen TVs and “the latest iPhone”, just daily life, unthreatened and with the prospect of an education and a job for themselves and their families. “I’d just stay in Qatar” indeed. Anyone who cites the Australian model for stopping migrants arriving by sea has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. People went mad because of that policy. People took their own lives. I for one would not want to live in a country that looks at that model now and thinks, “oh, that’s a good idea”.
Then there are those that are so worried about their tax and where its going. There’s the so-called significant amount “given” to France recently. £8million. A day’s cost for hotel accommodation. That’s not significant, its negligible. As for £2bn a year on hotel accommodation? That’s less than a quarter of the money that was wasted on useless PPE during the pandemic. It’s about 3% of the money given to Dido Harding’s team for a test and trace system that didn’t work. Then there’s the people who think an extra 40,000 people a year are crippling the NHS and the education system, and it's them who are stopping British people accessing services. It’s 12 years of Tory government that are stopping people accessing services.
This is GN Cliché, I know – but there are some days I do despair.
