[Samuel.]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Sadly I would have hoped the UK would retain its fair balancing of at least wanting to find out first who of these are genuinely trying to escape persecution and total poverty in their own homelands,before branding them all scroungers and wastes of time and space.

What has happened to the compassion, understanding and basic fairness the UK used to say it prided itself on.

They are being out up in Hotels because we have not as Country made sure we have the right facilities for them to go to, how many years has this been a problem.
If this was millions of people.rather than few thousand at most,then fair enough, but how I wish the media particularly would get this in the right perspective and look compassionate more at a justice angle rather than brand other living human beings as near parasites.

How nice it would be too, if politicians leading the UK, and the PM particularly, did not help fuel the prejudice in the media against these people too.
I really am more and more every day coming to despair at the attitudes of the people in the UK now, I already with a passion hate its rotten biased media.

I am less and less feeling that I am or even want to be a UK citizen in a hard hearted nation that shows little respect for the lives of people without even knowing their true circumstances or why they may be fleeing elsewhere in the first place.
Awful situation but govts have known this was always possible,the UK one for sure has, it has been warned plenty from UKIP,who will likely have a field day with he plight of these people again.

The French and UK govts have not done enough to set up places where such people can be 'invited' to go until they are assessed as to their real reasons to coming here along with their problems and difficulties.
The fact they have not done that and they end up in Hotels,is because if they do get here, until we do that process, we have some duty to keep them safe.

Or would the media and those who attack these people, prefer they were just abandoned on the streets of the UK or worse still rounded up, thrown into trucks like animals and discarded with no due process of finding out their own fears and issues as to why they are really in the state they are in and so desperate,so deperate they will risk their lives even to get away.

I almost no longer recognise great chunks of the UK for its hard line and cold attitude to such people any more.
I am often just left watching shaking my head in near shame at the news and catching the so called newspaper headlines on issues like this.

I couldn't agree more.