>“They’re closing down legal routes to safety and I find that shocking,” he said. “We’re pushing asylum seekers into the sea … We’re just doing the same as what is happening tragically in parts of the Mediterranean.”
[…]
>“I think it was our 70th anniversary of the Kindertransport that Prince Charles came and gave a short speech. But what he said was very interesting. He said: ‘I’m so glad that the government of the time allowed you in, because you have given back so much to this country.’ And that’s what it’s all about,” he said.
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Drop this latest in here too:
>Times: [Priti Patel ‘fixing the figures’ in row over resettling refugees from Afghanistan](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/priti-patel-fixing-figures-row-over-resettling-afghan-refugees-vjg5shpdn)
>
>([mirror](https://archive.is/iEF5B))
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>Priti Patel has been accused of “fixing the figures” and watering down a new scheme to resettle Afghan refugees as it emerged that thousands who are already in Britain will be included.
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>Home Office sources have blamed Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, for forcing the government to scale down its commitment to resettling the refugees owing to the “huge cost” of housing them. …
It’s getting old now…
“They are all refugees and need our help”
Or
“They are economic migrants who are safe in France”
Both full of shit.
If we’re lucky, we’ll only see between ten and a hundred holocausts’ worth of mass death as climate change ravages the tropics.
Pretty cool time to ~~be alive~~ die horrifically.
So sad, we are looking to adopt and would happily take an Afghan child but it’s seemingly impossible to do so.
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>“They’re closing down legal routes to safety and I find that shocking,” he said. “We’re pushing asylum seekers into the sea … We’re just doing the same as what is happening tragically in parts of the Mediterranean.”
[…]
>“I think it was our 70th anniversary of the Kindertransport that Prince Charles came and gave a short speech. But what he said was very interesting. He said: ‘I’m so glad that the government of the time allowed you in, because you have given back so much to this country.’ And that’s what it’s all about,” he said.
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Drop this latest in here too:
>Times: [Priti Patel ‘fixing the figures’ in row over resettling refugees from Afghanistan](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/priti-patel-fixing-figures-row-over-resettling-afghan-refugees-vjg5shpdn)
>
>([mirror](https://archive.is/iEF5B))
>
>Priti Patel has been accused of “fixing the figures” and watering down a new scheme to resettle Afghan refugees as it emerged that thousands who are already in Britain will be included.
>
>Home Office sources have blamed Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, for forcing the government to scale down its commitment to resettling the refugees owing to the “huge cost” of housing them. …
It’s getting old now…
“They are all refugees and need our help”
Or
“They are economic migrants who are safe in France”
Both full of shit.
If we’re lucky, we’ll only see between ten and a hundred holocausts’ worth of mass death as climate change ravages the tropics.
Pretty cool time to ~~be alive~~ die horrifically.
So sad, we are looking to adopt and would happily take an Afghan child but it’s seemingly impossible to do so.