Withdrawing the £36 a week from families with children, whose asylum applications have been rejected is a challenge to our humanity

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We should feel ashamed.

The developed countries fought it out among themselves. Mostly at a time when 'collateral damage' hadn't been thought of. We never left the less developed countries alone. We interfered. We wanted them to agree with our way of thinking. We wanted them to dance to our tune and gave them the means to make millions suffer.
How do we unpick over a hundred years of history? I don't know.

I think a developing country can make progress, sometimes they can skip some of the technological stages that developed countries went through more slowly...adopt existing first world technologies wholesale.

The problem is the 'stuck in medieval conditions' countries, with feuding tribes, religious fundamentalism, warlords who want to keep them in primitive conditions, who sun modernity

I dont see how they can be helped to get out of that swamp

Now some of them are getting into our countries and trying to turn us back into the countries they have left behind.

Increasingly, the way this country treats anyone in a spot of bother (asylum, unemployment, illness and so on) is an affront to our humanity. We are regressing at a frightening speed.

What the OP didn't make clear is that in fact this is just a proposal being consulted on, not actually happening right now. So everyone who feels strongly about this - one way or another - could respond to it to put their views to the Home Office.

I suspect the 2900 families which might be affected can probably get some soup and the like from local churches. It is more about sending a message to aslyum seekers that England is not a gravy train with paths paved in gold. Yes we are much less racist than the French and fairly polite and tolerant but there are not jobs a plenty and we are trying to tighten up the benefits system so work pays.

If it's affecting you so much take some action.
I think it is neither better nor worse than any of the other benefits cuts.
I personally do not feel ashamed as I didn't do it, I didn't even vote Conservative