Refugees

[InayaWoo]

Am I wrong to feel the people of this country are using the "Cost of Living" narrative to justify not helping migrants and refugees who seek refuge for themselves? Neglecting our British values, passing the buck to Rwanda and European countries. The attitude towards those fleeing war zones and risking everything to come to this country on harsh waters is outrageous!

I was in the corner shop today and over heard a couple of women making digs about foreigners. To make unjustified claims such as "it makes us unsafe", "we don't have jobs" or my personal favourite - "they don't integrate into society." What on earth has happened to our British values? To make others feel welcome and to help others in need of help!

Every human has a right to safety, affordable housing, food, water, education and a healthcare system. Those are all things our wonderful country can provide and quite frankly has a moral obligation to provide for those coming from other parts of the world that aren't as fortunate as us.

I think we are all trying to argue and rationalise with an OP who is clearly not intellectually capable of this.

There isnt a lack of housing in this country, there is a lack of affordable housing.

So you do have space.......

No I don’t. I’m sick of turning on the news to see those in need turned away and treated like dirt!

But don’t want to actually help beyond an mn thread

You have the space for people

You urself aren't helping though so effectively you are turning away from helping people

How? Please tell me how? I have a family of six under one roof. It’s rammed.

Plenty of single people in the U.K that can take refugees into a spare room.

No it’s not.

When you turn on the TV the people you watch have much less

How would you like to address the problem of men arriving here in dinghies who have ditched their ID's before arriving here so we don't know their ages or if they have criminal backgrounds and are from a culture that does not recognise an age of consent or rape as being a crime?

I’m lost?

Funny how you didn't reply to my other post about British born and bred not having safe adequate housing etc.

You and your partner share one room, 2 kids share one room, 2 more kids share another. Bam! You have a spare room now.

You’re casting aspersions. They arrive for help and we should help them. We shouldn’t entertain the delusions of some British people who incredibly biased.

I have three children, not four. My sons partner lives with us.

Think of your home as a metaphor for the UK, OP. You think it's "rammed". Others would argue that your children could share a room to make space for a refugee. A room in your busy house would be a real luxury for a young man arriving with literally nothing. Think about it.

A house is different from a country, Indian has a billion! China has a billion! We have less than 70 million and we could help others .

Every human has a right to safety, affordable housing, food, water, education and a healthcare system. Those are all things our wonderful country can provide and quite frankly has a moral obligation to provide for those coming from other parts of the world that aren't as fortunate as us.

How utterly naive of you, we can't provide this for our own citizens let alone thousands of others.

What about the ones already here who live in cramped overcrowded homes?
The ones who work but still need to go to food banks because they don't get paid enough.

And in those countries majority of them don't live in a 4bed house.they live onto of each other or multiple people in one room anyway you agreed to my post where I said you were delusional so I'll leave you to it

I’m talking about refugees. Britons have access to the help they need because they’re citizens.

True

I said a metaphor....
I often wonder why Saudi Arabia doesn't take more, it's such a huge, wealthy nation. Or Dubai with all those empty hotel rooms.

OP appears unbothered by this.

They take them.