Free stuff for asylum seekers charity goes bust.

Free stuff for asylum seekers charity goes bust.

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Soovy

35,829 posts

273 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Rude-boy said:
Eric Mc said:
Rude-boy said:
Sometimes I find it just easier hating everyone.



wink
At least it's non-discrminatory.
yes

hehe

Feeling a mardy sod today.

Tomorrow I will feel much better and will most likely be offering my garden shed for the housing of deserving immigrants.

Seriously though I could not give a monkeys about skin colour, gender, religion, etc. you’re either a good guy or a little st on the whole and I'm happy to share my homeland with the former, even if they might have crossed more boarders for safety that they really needed to. The latter though can take a long walk off a short plank for all I care, we already have enough ****s in this fair Isle without the need to import any more.
Ditto. And dusky babes can stay too.

boobles

15,241 posts

217 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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You have to ask yourself one question though. Would some of these countries make YOU feel welcome & let you live there & live of the tax payer? I very much doubt it. I also couldn't care about skin colour or religion but I do disagree with people coming ovwer to this country & living of me, I:E the tax payer. I also disagree with "British" people living of the tax payer.

rb5er

11,657 posts

174 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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If we took in everyone that was persecuted in their own country we would fill up even quicker than we already are.

There are many safe countries these people could go to which are much bigger and closer to them than our little island is.

The roads are congested, there are 4 hour queues for A&E as well as the rest of the NHS being overloaded, and the schools are overflowing with kids that can`t even speak English.

There has to be a point where we say enough is enough.

If we continuously fail to say no we will eventually end up a 3rd world country ourselves.

I am all for helping people but it would also be nice if we could help ourselves once in a while.

Tony 1234

3,465 posts

229 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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rb5er said:
If we took in everyone that was persecuted in their own country we would fill up even quicker than we already are.

There are many safe countries these people could go to which are much bigger and closer to them than our little island is.

The roads are congested, there are 4 hour queues for A&E as well as the rest of the NHS being overloaded, and the schools are overflowing with kids that can`t even speak English.

There has to be a point where we say enough is enough.

If we continuously fail to say no we will eventually end up a 3rd world country ourselves.

I am all for helping people but it would also be nice if we could help ourselves once in a while.
+1

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

211 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Tony 1234 said:
rb5er said:
If we took in everyone that was persecuted in their own country we would fill up even quicker than we already are.

There are many safe countries these people could go to which are much bigger and closer to them than our little island is.

The roads are congested, there are 4 hour queues for A&E as well as the rest of the NHS being overloaded, and the schools are overflowing with kids that can`t even speak English.

There has to be a point where we say enough is enough.

If we continuously fail to say no we will eventually end up a 3rd world country ourselves.

I am all for helping people but it would also be nice if we could help ourselves once in a while.
+1
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Eric Mc

122,196 posts

267 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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boobles said:
You have to ask yourself one question though. Would some of these countries make YOU feel welcome & let you live there & live of the tax payer? I very much doubt it. I also couldn't care about skin colour or religion but I do disagree with people coming ovwer to this country & living of me, I:E the tax payer. I also disagree with "British" people living of the tax payer.
I wonder what the 300,000 Brits who live in Spain think?

vonuber

17,868 posts

167 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Interestingly enough, one of my Grandads came over here as an asylum speaker. He had served in the Plish Army (d-day and all that too) and couldn't go back to Poland afterwards (something about having a medal for shooting Russians when they invaded in '39 sort of made him not welcome..).
So our family has a lot to be thankful to the poeple in this country for. They even accepted my german grandma, who came here not long after the war end.. and this says a lot for the people here IMO.

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

235 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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vonuber said:
Interestingly enough, one of my Grandads came over here as an asylum speaker. He had served in the Plish Army (d-day and all that too) and couldn't go back to Poland afterwards (something about having a medal for shooting Russians when they invaded in '39 sort of made him not welcome..).
So our family has a lot to be thankful to the poeple in this country for. They even accepted my german grandma, who came here not long after the war end.. and this says a lot for the people here IMO.
That'd do it yes

I honestly think that the British sense of fair play is one of the greatest things about this country.

The only problem is that we let the cheaters get away with it too often.

Mind you when we bite, we do tend to do it properly.

grantone

640 posts

175 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Munter said:
Just one point. There are some genuine asylum seekers. People who genuinely will be killed if they stay in their own country, just because they kissed someone, or didn't wear a head scarf.

We should take those people in, educate them if needs be, and set them to work just like the rest of us.
This charity mainly provides legal help to those that have already been assessed for asylum and had it denied. The asylum system won't stop, it's just that when the state has decided that you don't qualify for asylum, the state won't fund another legal team to fight against itself.

nutty slack

3,091 posts

178 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Caulkhead said:
Reminds me of a recent business trip to the midlands. I ended up staying near Evesham and wandered into town to find a curry. Being on my own I got talking to the guy who owned the curry house and he started ranting about all the Poles invading the place and taking the jobs and opening Polish shops everywhere. I congratulated him on his complete integration into British culture. smile
I grew up in Burnley, which had a majority of 'Asian' bus drivers in the area, I'll let you guess which variety of 'Asians' they were. Not long ago there were major complaints about 'Polish and other Eastern Europeans coming over and taking our jobs.'

Irony or what? hehe

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

257 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Eric Mc said:
I wonder what the 300,000 Brits who live in Spain think?
Yeah... Bloody expats... irked

otolith

56,542 posts

206 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Eric Mc said:
bassist of emotions


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Eric Mc

122,196 posts

267 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Like the cap.

otolith

56,542 posts

206 months

Tuesday 12th July 2011
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Fitting, I though, BNP + bassist = Lemmy + nazi hat smile

princeperch

7,948 posts

249 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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Soovy said:
I used to do asylum work.

Most of them travel throught he whole of Europe to reach the English promised land of free everything for life.

They don't flee and stop when they're safe, they flee and stop when they get to the free English money and NHS.
did you work for the good side or the dark side?

Soovy

35,829 posts

273 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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princeperch said:
Soovy said:
I used to do asylum work.

Most of them travel throught he whole of Europe to reach the English promised land of free everything for life.

They don't flee and stop when they're safe, they flee and stop when they get to the free English money and NHS.
did you work for the good side or the dark side?
I represented applicants.

Thus the reason I know most of them to be liars and thieves.

fido

16,874 posts

257 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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Soovy said:
I represented applicants.

Thus the reason I know most of them to be liars and thieves.
Conversely, I do wonder what they think of Solicitors wink

Soovy

35,829 posts

273 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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fido said:
Soovy said:
I represented applicants.

Thus the reason I know most of them to be liars and thieves.
Conversely, I do wonder what they think of Solicitors wink
Wouldn't know about that, I'm a barrister.


fido

16,874 posts

257 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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Soovy said:
Wouldn't know about that, I'm a barrister.
:tips hat:

princeperch

7,948 posts

249 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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Soovy said:
I represented applicants.

Thus the reason I know most of them to be liars and thieves.
Interesting. I work for the 'good' side. Our paths might have crossed in the past..