Facebook comments on crossing the channel and dead children

[Wolverine23]

Im shocked whatever one’s opinion on immigrants the laughing comments on dead children is truly horrific. One lady says best thing I’ve read all week’ !one click in her profile and it shows she’s a mum with kid herself. This is the ITV news page! I don’t even recognize this country anymore?

the amount of horrible comments. They are children, human beings. Truly horrific times we are heading into with a lack of empathy I thought I’d never seen given the history of WW2 as I said whatever opinions are on the Boats laughing at dead children and the comments is unsettling

Well done you 👏🏻 what a POS, the more people like us that do it the better. People need to stop turning a blind eye to racism and call people for it.

Why will they put us in international prison or send in an international army? International law is a result of treaties we enter, global bodies we commit to and a plethora of other arrangements. There may be consequences of breaking these which would generally by financial but they should be measured against the costs of not breaking international law and continuing down the path we are taking.

tell me about it numerous times I’ve reported vile racist comments and they don’t get banned , let alone removed. Yet I called someone a fucking stupid old cow or was it cunt 🤔 and I got banned for 30 days!!! (it was justified by the way she was a fucking stupid old cow)

Please don’t talk to me like I’m an idiot. All you’ve done here is stated the obvious (which I was courteous enough to assume that people already knew). And don’t get sarky with me just because you don’t like the truth. I hardly caused the current situation, did I.

Sorry didn’t meant to offend, was trying and apparently failing to be funny. However I am generally mystified about why we are so worried about international law and treat it as some sort of sacred cow that we have to abide by no matter what the costs to us are. I also think a lot of other people feel the same. I seem to even remember a senior member of government saying they were breaking international law in a limited way so I am not sure why it stops a sovereign country doing whatever it wants. Can’t we just resile from treaties etc and measure that cost against the benefit. Perhaps that was your point but I’m not sure it came across clearly.

Ah thank you, it went over my head apparently!

I’m honestly not informed enough (or awake enough) to be able to answer your questions. I do know it’s very complex but I don’t mean that in a dismissive, “oh you wouldn’t understand,” way - just that I know it’s very complex!

And yes the situation is dire. There’s no getting around that. I’m what most people would call a bleeding heart liberal but what’s been done for the past 15 years or so simply isn’t working, and it will only get worse.

More than 1000 people have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean so far in 2026, over 300 of them children. 8 people have died trying to cross the channel.
In the last 10 years at least 20,800 people have drowned in the med, approx 3,500 children.
(These are based upon UNHCR and UNICEF figures and calculations). The associated child and sexual violence, exploitation and abuse is widespread.
We shouldn’t be excusing anyone for laughing at others pain and hardship. Let’s call it out for the racism it is.
The Farage and Reform support of the US bombing of Iran which directly leads to financial and human cost, for us for everyone, of foreign wars is horrendous. Please don’t let them get in. Let’s call them out for standing on a Policy of stopping all international aid. Not to mention abolishing net zero and climate mitigation. Where is this going to lead to apart from enormous additional human suffering and desperate immigration. It’s just so sad.

They’re thick as fuck. They likely have flags up in their gardens and reform stickers in their window. Disgusting people.

If you don’t allow people to speak and question things, it leads to deep seething resentment where people gravitate toward those of a similar mind as they don’t want abuse.

And if you don’t want to engage because it suits you to think they are thick or whatever, then don’t be surprised if the resentment just grows.

Instead of leaping to insults, why not open the discussion up so that people can discuss their concerns without being accused of racism etc?

I agree, but, laughing at people dying isn’t a ‘concern’ it’s just really nasty.

That is kind of what I mean though. People band together and the hate spreads because there is nothing to temper it. So it does get to this point where people are laughing about death.

It’s extremism, plain and simple. But you don’t counter it by just swearing and insulting them.

But allowing people to question things is not the same as tolerating extremism without naming it, I’m not swearing btw. As I said I agree on that, I personally would always be happy to discuss policy and peoples experience (and I have read those reform policies). If people are posting laughing emojis at others drowning they’re pretty far down an extremist road though?

They are indeed, I agree. But what happens when you just dismiss them as nut jobs? They don’t just disappear into the ether unfortunately. Like any other extremist faction they recruit and grow until what? These things rarely end well.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea of the answer. But I hope someone does soon

I wish the telegraph were a reliable source. But they arent recently

And I know you aren’t swearing but some posters were being incredibly aggressive earlier in the post and it hardly helps discussion

It’s loathsome. Laughing at a child’s death, whatever the circumstances, just makes you scum in my opinion. I will point out there are an equal number of laughing faces on posts about October 7, which also sickens me.

I get posts from pretty standard FB groups with these kinds of comments in. Vile. I used to attempt to argue with them but would get piled on myself so gave up.

im In a local fb group for my small Somerset town. Some Beefeater restaurants attached to Premier Inn are closing but are continuing to act as hotels. The shitstirrers are already saying the hotels will be used for those coming off small boats.

im still in a London group from when I lived there. There was a post from the Met appealing for help in tracing a young man who’d gone missing. He was described as vulnerable and missing vital medication. He also happened to be Black. The far right were out in force. ‘Send him back to Africa’ (what even if he’s lived in Peckham or wherever all his life, and his family have been here for generations and actually came from the Caribbean when they came here) ‘he doesn’t look vulnerable’ (what does a vulnerable person look like?), ‘Have they checked the Ritz?’ ‘Any Taylor Swift events?’

Believe me the more I argued with them the more abusive they became.

I did at one point say ‘my parents were Irish. Should I go back there, even though I was born and raised here, or can I stay because im white?’

makes me ashamed to be white and British (well British of Irish descent!)

The amount they are given?? An asylum seeker in this country is given £49 a week if they aren’t provided food and £9 a week if meals are provided. This country is in the state it’s in because of the elite avoiding taxes not people seeking refuge here.

I've seen similar posts on my local newspaper's website. I'm saddened but not surprised sadly. We need to do more to stop the smugglers but what sort of person celebrates the death of fellow humans? Absolute scum of the earth

It’s the perception though. Hence the comparisons to 1930s Germany. It used to be that “benefits cheats” were the scapegoat, now they’ve found something even better.

Me neither, wish I did.
Historically people have taken on the far right, Mosley and his goons etc, and I think we should, but I’m under no illusion that it will go away. Or that legitimate concerns about structural inequalities and loss of opportunity will continue to feed peoples sense of injustice - as well as give grifters the opening to manipulate people and spread division.

Extremely abusive. I saw a video back in September at the Tommy Robinson protest in London, and heard chanting and saw young guys saying ‘my d-* goes hard every time a bomb drops in Gaza’ with all sorts of the worst people imaginable. You can’t comment as you’ll just get abuse as these are mostly abusers, not concerned men looking out for woman and children. Very few are genuinely concerned or affected by what they see on the tv or what videos they see on social media in real life.

The vast majority aren’t concerned for their country, they are just pure racists and next up will be anyone who has a different opinion ‘leftie’ , next up a women who want to work or have equal rights, one video had a man ripping up a rainbow flag 🤦‍♀️at one of those save women and children marches. I’m not in these groups, it’s on my feed though. For the record for a time I didnt see anything and thought it had gone quiet but this weekend it was back on my feed and I didnt click on anything it showed up.

It's now emerged that the women did not drown. They were killed on the boat

https://x.com/i/status/2051062898668020046

I would be wary of that source but did wonder why the news didn’t explicitly state they’d drowned.

If they were killed by the men on the boat then that is absolutely horrific and they ALL must be held in some kind of detention centre until they can be returned.

This is getting beyond a joke now, how much risk are women here expected to tolerate for the sake of men who aren’t citizens of our country?

@carrotcake1234 no accommodation? Medical care? Are they just given £49 per week and expected to feed and house themselves on that, and cover their own medical/dental costs (being non UK citizens)? In that case, I stand corrected. I mistakenly thought they were given accommodation.