Ukrainians should just be given a three year stay in UK, no visa needed.

[Kendodd]

And they should be allowed to work, but not claim asylum.
And before people start jumping up and down 'they're not coming here, we're full up' minimal state support should be given to appease you lot. A network should be set up tso people with space, spare rooms etc can offer accommodation. Some of the people coming will be teachers, they can be supported in setting up informal or online schools for the children.
This is temporary, we are better than this. I know the Tories don't want it but they don't have to get over involved, individual people will step up and take people in. I know it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

Yabu - No
Yanbu Let them come

@Soffit

I once witnessed the oddest exchange which made me choke on my latte. It was a PTA meeting taking place in a cafe. All the representatives were white, middle class, yummy mummy types. One proposed a wine evening to raise funds and the others were immediately enthused by the suggestion. Then they had an afterthought that many of the school parents were muslim so would be unlikely to participate. After a couple of agonizing seconds, it was decided that even though it would be pointless for the muslim parents to attend, they would enjoy themselves and be raising money to benefit everyone in the process so it was justified and approved. In other words, they were happy to anti-integrate and feel good about providing the muslim parents with the benefits at arm's length because it felt good overall.

Did they actually ask the Muslim parents though? Know a fair few Muslim mums that would also enjoy a wine evening Or did they just assume they were being right on acknowledging some Muslims would not participate .

x2boys - I don't know as I did not know the name of the school but it sounded as though they were assuming it would be just their group of PTA mates. I suppose they could have brought soft drinks along but wine tastings are really specific to that one activity aren't they? They also mentioned inviting a wine teacher along. I don't suppose she would have had much to say about the floral notes of elderflower cordial!

@Soffit

x2boys - I don't know as I did not know the name of the school but it sounded as though they were assuming it would be just their group of PTA mates. I suppose they could have brought soft drinks along but wine tastings are really specific to that one activity aren't they? They also mentioned inviting a wine teacher along. I don't suppose she would have had much to say about the floral notes of elderflower cordial!

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@EmpressCixi

To address the “let then work” why treat them differently from all other refugees....ie the nonwhite ones from Africa and Afghanistan? That smacks of racial preference for white refugees and racism against nonwhite refugees.

Check my posting history. I've been on here during every conflict arguing we should get as many people as possible to safety. I signed up for Refugees at Home during the Afghan crisis (they need family homes or rooms in cities, my home wasn't suitable as I live rurally, it might be for Ukrainians though). I'm also a private landlord and housed a women from Syria with cancer evacuated as part of the government's 'most vulnerable, frontline ' thing, organised through the local council. So you can fuck right off calling me racist. Do you want to come back and apologise?

Oh and I can go right back to the 1980s when I was a member of the London Anti Apartite group and spent hours and hours demonstrating in front of the South African embassy in Trafalgar Square.

@MorrisZapp

Wait hang on. I thought we were the sick man of Europe, the laughing stock of the world, with a non existent NHS, third world levels of poverty and a police force corrupt from top to bottom?

Now we seem to be a safe, affluent country?

I agree. To quote The Simpsons I thought the UK was a 'pee pee soaked heck hole'