Calais transfer.
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hornetrider said:
Are you sure it's not just your crap internet connection? Pics show up fine for me unless they've altered the article.
That's interesting - up until about 8am this morning they were obscuring them until it got discussed on LBC and Nick Ferrari was going to question it! The amusing part is all these experts in their chosen fields coming out to rubbish their own profession; dentists, paediatricians, etc.
Apparently tests to determine age are unreliable. I bet they weren't unreliable prior to this when they were being consulted for their services in determining the age of a subject
Apparently tests to determine age are unreliable. I bet they weren't unreliable prior to this when they were being consulted for their services in determining the age of a subject
I don't have a massive issue with genuine children who have a right to be here being fast tracked.
In some cases this seems to be a blatant piss take though.
To those suggesting it's some kind of violation of human rights I'd ask a couple of very simple questions:
In some cases this seems to be a blatant piss take though.
To those suggesting it's some kind of violation of human rights I'd ask a couple of very simple questions:
- If you have a 16 year old daughter would you be happy for one of these "children" to turn up on your doorstep?
- If I go to enroll at the local sixth form college do you think they'd take my word for it if I said I was 17 and I'd lost all my identification?
9.3 said:
hornetrider said:
Are you sure it's not just your crap internet connection? Pics show up fine for me unless they've altered the article.
That's interesting - up until about 8am this morning they were obscuring them until it got discussed on LBC and Nick Ferrari was going to question it! Agree with both of those posts.
Isn't it a shame that a bit of piss-taking combined with our tabloid-reading nations love of outrage, turns a good thing into such a negative?
A 2 second google reveals no end of actual cute children that could be the face of this project, and yet the tabloids are sooooo desperate to make it seem like all we are bringing over is grown men.
Isn't it a shame that a bit of piss-taking combined with our tabloid-reading nations love of outrage, turns a good thing into such a negative?
A 2 second google reveals no end of actual cute children that could be the face of this project, and yet the tabloids are sooooo desperate to make it seem like all we are bringing over is grown men.
Esseesse said:
blindswelledrat said:
A 2 second google reveals no end of actual cute children that could be the face of this project
Give us a link or a google search term that you'd suggest?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388324/Th...
p1stonhead said:
Esseesse said:
blindswelledrat said:
A 2 second google reveals no end of actual cute children that could be the face of this project
Give us a link or a google search term that you'd suggest?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388324/Th...
The pictures highlighted in that link are in stark contrast to the 'children' we have seen coming into the UK, who are in the main anything but children!
It's nothing more than a blatant piss take by the Home office.
don'tbesilly said:
If the children shown in those pictures were of children that had made it through to the UK, we wouldn't be having this discussion and the thread wouldn't exist, the majority would support genuine unaccompanied children being homed in the UK.
Depends on the numbers settled in each individual council really.£50,000 a year per child resettled until their 25th birthday was the costs I have heard claimed. Our own local council is so short of funds that they are handing over responsibilities to the parish councils such that each council tax payer will be paying significantly more each year (and creating parish councils where they did not exist before). Councils in general don't have the funds for anything more than token resettlements of unaccompanied children.
p1stonhead said:
People pay good money every year to stand around in muddy fields surrounded by tents! Get Lily Allen, Bob Geldof and Co to perform and maybe we could sell tickets at £200 a pop to hipsters in Hunter wellies and Barbour jackets?p1stonhead said:
Esseesse said:
blindswelledrat said:
A 2 second google reveals no end of actual cute children that could be the face of this project
Give us a link or a google search term that you'd suggest?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388324/Th...
BSR is suggesting that there is a deliberate attempt to portray these children as older by presumably not showing the toddlers. He then suggested (above) that a quick google would show actual cute children that we have recently allowed in to the UK.
JagLover said:
don'tbesilly said:
If the children shown in those pictures were of children that had made it through to the UK, we wouldn't be having this discussion and the thread wouldn't exist, the majority would support genuine unaccompanied children being homed in the UK.
Depends on the numbers settled in each individual council really.£50,000 a year per child resettled until their 25th birthday was the costs I have heard claimed. Our own local council is so short of funds that they are handing over responsibilities to the parish councils such that each council tax payer will be paying significantly more each year (and creating parish councils where they did not exist before). Councils in general don't have the funds for anything more than token resettlements of unaccompanied children.
Wherever possible, genuine migrant children should be supported as best the UK can reasonably manage.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/youn...
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