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How long before the right-wing turn against Ukrainian refugees?

(58 Posts)
GagaJo Sat 21-May-22 13:02:06

I was thinking about this today. At the moment, even the right-wing media (and government) are paying lip service to supporting / hosting Ukrainian refugees but it won't be long until they start to see them as scroungers and start the hostile rhetoric.

Joseanne Sat 21-May-22 20:06:07

Sorry OakDryad I got my posts the wrong way round and was adding a positive glass half full comment in response to merlotgran.

By way of explanation it isn't the individual hosts paying for the refugees' education it is the many private schools offering them places. A humanitarian gesture which goes beyond politics.
(Not out to score points, just fed up with posters continually rubbishing private schools and so used this thread to let off steam and to show that where there's a will, there's a way.)

volver Sat 21-May-22 20:08:59

So if they can offer places free of charge, why can't we all get them?

Allsorts Sat 21-May-22 20:21:23

Unpleasant post. You need to ask why.

volver Sat 21-May-22 20:25:46

Was that for me Allsorts? Or is it the whole thread that you think is unpleasant? Just looking for clarification. smile

GagaJo Sat 21-May-22 20:29:39

Funny. There was the same sort of outcry when I posted that Johnson was just a puppet and that Cummins was a Rasputin figure immediately after the election.

Hmmm

Not that I think I'm some sort of sage, or predictor of the future. Just that some things are blatantly obvious.

Petera Sat 21-May-22 20:45:45

Allsorts

Unpleasant post. You need to ask why.

I'll bite. Why?

volver Sun 22-May-22 10:34:05

I'm so confused.

People are upset about this thread but the thread about how to stop MPs being sex pests is suggesting bromide in their tea, or secateurs.

It's a funny old world.