Green councillor gets grandkids to send Valentine cards to immigrants at Crowburgh

Crowborough

Link?

Utterly ridiculous

Tuliptree

Link?

www.thesun.co.uk/news/38209140/migrants-valentines-cards-councillor-crowborough-locals-fury/

Plenty of other sources.

Thank you. I feel uneasy about this- mixed messages to the migrants who can’t be expected to decode them. The councillor could deliver a welcome card and some cakes without the complication of love and valentines.

This is soooooo wrong 😡

Misguided dangerous idiot. Would you get young kids to send valentines to anyone except maybe their mums and dads?

Tuliptree

Thank you. I feel uneasy about this- mixed messages to the migrants who can’t be expected to decode them. The councillor could deliver a welcome card and some cakes without the complication of love and valentines.

Agree.
What has Saint Valentine, (a Christian tradition) got to do with welcoming migrant men?

Tells you everything you need to know about the Greens.
Shockingly inappropriate.

She is an extremely foolish woman

She said:
“The cards will go, anonymously, to the men in the camp, as a welcome from the local community.

She cannot speak on behalf of everyone in the community. Besides that, she has no understanding of the meaning behind a Valentine's card or the difference between that and a welcome card.
What do her grandchildren's parents think, I wonder?

I think the whole Valentines thing is pretty daft anyway

What a silly thing to do. For young children to send valentines to any man, anywhere is ridiculous. I agree with Tuliptree.

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

Snap judgements that it is a bit weird for kids to send Valentines ? Hmm. Why didn’t they just send a ‘welcome’ card ?

She will surely not be a councillor for much longer!

Allira

She is an extremely foolish woman

She said:
“The cards will go, anonymously, to the men in the camp, as a welcome from the local community.

She cannot speak on behalf of everyone in the community. Besides that, she has no understanding of the meaning behind a Valentine's card or the difference between that and a welcome card.
What do her grandchildren's parents think, I wonder?

She is clearly not a young woman, yet she has managed to get through a life of50(?) plus years without ever knowing of the meaning behind a Valentine's card or the difference between that and a welcome card.

She is either unbelievably naive - or she is lying.

Syracute

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

Nonsense.

What a dangerous and stupid suggestion, that could put children in an abusive situation if the receipt of these cards is interperated wrongly by some of these men.
She needs firing, its mind blowing that anyone would suggest this !

Ridiculous misguided gesture.

She cannot take it upon herself to do it on behalf of the comnunity because so many of them are distraught. Distraught because time and time again where migrant men are gathered in large numbers sex attacks have occurred. Crowborough, I've been to it on a number of occasions, is a small to moderate sized town of some 11,000 people who will have 600 young men accommodated in the barracks on the edge of town.

St Valentine, as mentioned up thread was a Christian saint. This day embedded in western culture where people send a card to their loved one or anonymously to a person they've set their sights on. Cards range from love and hearts to more suggestive content. Highly inappropriate and quite possibly amongst those men, some might understand the context of what the day represents culturally in the west.

So what are they, the men, supposed to make of cards on such a theme? delivered by children I believe

Just wrong on so many levels.

Dangerous, damaging, totally deluded women!

Syracute

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

You sound just as nuts as this woman, if you think that is ok Syracute

TerriBull

Ridiculous misguided gesture.

She cannot take it upon herself to do it on behalf of the comnunity because so many of them are distraught. Distraught because time and time again where migrant men are gathered in large numbers sex attacks have occurred. Crowborough, I've been to it on a number of occasions, is a small to moderate sized town of some 11,000 people who will have 600 young men accommodated in the barracks on the edge of town.

St Valentine, as mentioned up thread was a Christian saint. This day embedded in western culture where people send a card to their loved one or anonymously to a person they've set their sights on. Cards range from love and hearts to more suggestive content. Highly inappropriate and quite possibly amongst those men, some might understand the context of what the day represents culturally in the west.

So what are they, the men, supposed to make of cards on such a theme? delivered by children I believe

Just wrong on so many levels.

Just inviting trouble 👍🏻 I agree with you TB.
Stupid, stupid woman!

Syracute

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

No, what is ridiculous is coercing children into giving gestures of romantic love to grown men, of whatever nationality.
Repulsive.

Should have said appalling, not ridiculous. Though it’s that, too.