butterandjam
windmill1
Hordes, and I mean hordes, of single fighting age young men, dispersed amongst the population in HMO's?
No thanks.
They have already shown what little - if any - regard they have for women by abandoning their own kind to poverty, persecution and abuse,
AIUI, many of those "fit young men" have been chosen and funded by their family back home, to be sent at huge expense to the affluent west in the hope they are young, resilient and tough enough to make a living there, and send money back home.
Far from having cowardly "deserted" their family, they've "gone west" as pioneers; just like the early emigrants to America and Canada (who were often the poor and desperate from Europe and Britain).
Or, closer to home and in time; look at all the single migrants who came to Britain after WW2 from The Caribbean, India, Pakistan. They had left behind their families including small children, because they were the designated family member most likely to "make it" in a cold country thousands of miles from home. But often at huge cost to themselves ; lonely, resented and rejected by the new country. Their assimilation and acceptance took decades.
I don't defend any crooks and criminals among the new migrants; but we should all try to remember that sometimes the most desperate and dangerous aspects of political and economic migration actually marks out the best qualities in young people; ambition, fearless determination to risk everything for a better future; and for the family they left back home.
Well done butterandjam! I could imagine my sons leaving a war torn country for a better life. It’s the luck of where you are born - just geography. But a lot of people just don’t appreciate how lucky they are to live in a relatively safe country and are unable to empathise or try to put themselves in another person’s shoes. When the world is unstable with war migration happens and we have to learn to cope. We are lucky to live here even if we don’t always feel it.
