Words cannot express how disappointed I am in this government.
Maybe BoJo can pick her up while he’s over there
Why is she mean?
Well, there’s always Rwanda….
/s
It shows how our institutional bureaucracy lacks humanity within its core principles, and in the decisions it makes. To turn away a vulnerable child, being protected from the horrors of a war zone, and cause her to be sent back there – it actually leaves me feeling sick.
All because she was travelling with her grandparents instead of her parents, they weren’t given the right forms by us, and because of a demand for signature being made of someone still within the war zone. Sure, UK bureaucracy isn’t the only point of failure, as the Polish one was also lacking in humanity when it failed to give a visa extension/exemption to protect a small child from a very, very clear danger. But we are the last point of failure in the chain, and the rules we made up were arbitrary.
We understood that the parents can’t always also join when we sent our own children to the countryside in WW2, how did we forget that not all parents, trying to keep their country alive in war-time, might be able to join the children they send to safety, done so in frantic and total heartbreak as they send them away?
We should have offered shelter, here; protection and assurance to the life of a child, and protection and assurance for the parents, knowing their family is safe as they try to protect their country. And we failed.
Oh god. Any idea what a random off the internet can usefully do to help here?
Cannot imagine the concern and worry her parents must be feeling and am totally bsffled by how we cannot seem to pull out the bureaucratic stops to get a 4 year old child away from the frontline if there’s a willing, safe home for her here in the UK.
Poland were the ones who sent her back… Yet this is somehow our fault… Lol!
The system we put in placed was rushed and only done to stop other countries drawing attention to the fact we were not taking in migrants, then we became the only nation that wanted migrants fleeing a war zone to have all the right documents. It is not a system meant to help people, it is a system designed to make migrants give up and claim asylum in other countries.
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Words cannot express how disappointed I am in this government.
Maybe BoJo can pick her up while he’s over there
Why is she mean?
Well, there’s always Rwanda….
/s
It shows how our institutional bureaucracy lacks humanity within its core principles, and in the decisions it makes. To turn away a vulnerable child, being protected from the horrors of a war zone, and cause her to be sent back there – it actually leaves me feeling sick.
All because she was travelling with her grandparents instead of her parents, they weren’t given the right forms by us, and because of a demand for signature being made of someone still within the war zone. Sure, UK bureaucracy isn’t the only point of failure, as the Polish one was also lacking in humanity when it failed to give a visa extension/exemption to protect a small child from a very, very clear danger. But we are the last point of failure in the chain, and the rules we made up were arbitrary.
We understood that the parents can’t always also join when we sent our own children to the countryside in WW2, how did we forget that not all parents, trying to keep their country alive in war-time, might be able to join the children they send to safety, done so in frantic and total heartbreak as they send them away?
We should have offered shelter, here; protection and assurance to the life of a child, and protection and assurance for the parents, knowing their family is safe as they try to protect their country. And we failed.
Oh god. Any idea what a random off the internet can usefully do to help here?
Cannot imagine the concern and worry her parents must be feeling and am totally bsffled by how we cannot seem to pull out the bureaucratic stops to get a 4 year old child away from the frontline if there’s a willing, safe home for her here in the UK.
Poland were the ones who sent her back… Yet this is somehow our fault… Lol!
The system we put in placed was rushed and only done to stop other countries drawing attention to the fact we were not taking in migrants, then we became the only nation that wanted migrants fleeing a war zone to have all the right documents. It is not a system meant to help people, it is a system designed to make migrants give up and claim asylum in other countries.