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Original poster

To ask where I can send my 57p?

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drspouse · 31/07/2015 20:47

According to the Mirror if all the asylum seekers currently in Calais came into the UK and (highly unlikely) never paid any tax, it would cost each of us 57p.
To save a group of people from some of the most unimaginable horrors in their home countries, I'm more than happy to pay that.
So, where do I sign to pay up (and make it clear I'm happy for them to officially seek asylum and have their claims verified)?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/not-migrant-hordes--people-6165167

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drspouse · 31/07/2015 21:09

I'm very happy to give money to help refugees and asylum seekers eat/live/feed their babies, and to make people aware that they are people too. I consider my £X to go towards the former and my 57p towards the latter.

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TheRealMaryMillington · 31/07/2015 21:09

We could perhaps send it to somewhere like 38degrees or change.org, together with a petition might at least get voiced in the media what most people I speak to seem to think, ie "let them come".

longfingernails · 31/07/2015 21:09

You still haven't explained what is so oppressive about France?

Are the illegals being wedgied by the gendarmes? Are they being force-fed snailburgers?

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drspouse · 31/07/2015 21:10

Widow Thank you, and everyone else, for posting so positively, after all the crickets I got when I posted this on FB.

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bearleftmonkeyright · 31/07/2015 21:10

I would rather direct any charity towards the hauliers and lorry drivers who have had their livelihoods ruined.

Correct me if Im wrong but I think thats largely due to the fact that French Ferry workers are on strike.

ThoseAwfulCurtains · 31/07/2015 21:11

Lol @ how very far away I am from being part of the Islington set.

JassyRadlett · 31/07/2015 21:11

Why on earth are some people on Mumsnet so fixated on trying to put people in a box of where think they must live simply because they disagree with their opinions? It's bizarre.

On immigration issues this week, I've read Hay-on-Wye (wtf), the Cotswolds, 'far away from the South East', Hampstead and now Islington.

Can I call bingo now?

Hellotherehowareyoudoing · 31/07/2015 21:12

drspouse your thread has cheered me up after losing faith today reading so many comments (elsewhere) about this situation.

Garlick · 31/07/2015 21:12

I'm as skint as hell, but I've got 57p for someone in an even worse pickle.

Caveat: I know some folks have literally no money; I'm not trying to poke!

longfingernails · 31/07/2015 21:13

ThoseAwfulCurtains This is the Internet. By participating in the MN groupthink your IP address may as well be next to Ed Miliband's.

Theresaflyinmyhouse · 31/07/2015 21:13

It's so so so nice to read things which aren't just "bloody illegals, flooding in, taking our taxes blah blah blah blah".

I'm in!

swallowed · 31/07/2015 21:13

Bet I'm the furthest from Islington. I'd guess around 850 miles...

longfingernails · 31/07/2015 21:15

The Islington set is more a state of mind, which has expanded beyond its tea-with-Toynbee roots.

FarFromAnyRoad · 31/07/2015 21:15

For what period of time does this mythical 57p make things ok for the migrants? And if all the current Calais migrants DO come because you all gave your 57p - well, how long before the 'Jungle' is full again? And will you all give 57p again. And again. Ad infinitum? But the important question is, I think, for how long will this sum sustain them?

agnes54 · 31/07/2015 21:15

since when do we believe everything the newspapers say. Wouldn't it make sense to channel some of the overseas aid towards helping them.

Dismalfuckers · 31/07/2015 21:15

But why do they need to escape from France??

swallowed · 31/07/2015 21:16

Have you seen that fucking disgrace where they "live"?

Would you want to stay there???

longfingernails · 31/07/2015 21:18

bearleftmonkeyright Yes, but the strikers (useless as always) are providing the opportunity for the illegals to attack and intimidate innocent British lorry drivers.

ThoseAwfulCurtains · 31/07/2015 21:18

Well thank you for putting me so clearly in my place long.

BAAAhahaha
Keep it up dear. Very entertaining.

Theresaflyinmyhouse · 31/07/2015 21:19

I'd happily pay 57p a week to support fellow humans. Yup.

JassyRadlett · 31/07/2015 21:19

The Islington set is more a state of mind, which has expanded beyond its tea-with-Toynbee roots.

Oh, good, we're going to get into the next MN favourite, what they think people read and what it says about them.

Is debating the issue rather than trying to belittle people because they have a different view than yours really so difficult?

Theresaflyinmyhouse · 31/07/2015 21:20

Hahahahaha "the illegals"! Way to dehumanise!

PurpleSwift · 31/07/2015 21:21

But it's not just them is it? It's them, then their family's, then their friends, then their families, then their friends, then their families etc etc this thread is redundant

Garlick · 31/07/2015 21:21

Right, I just sent £1 to the Refugee Council.

Love that article. Thanks, OP!

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