suprised there is no thread on this, french close down "jungle"

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suprised as this will affect us
wonder if they will all be allowed over here now.
can we keep taking all these people, considering the goverment is talking about cutting education due to lack of money. it isn't like they are fleeing a war torn country.

Some idiots actually let me into one of the top 10 law schools in the US, too, noddy!

I didn't take up the place. Instead I went trekking in the Himalayas and it was full of brown people, many of whom were Muslims!

Riven...i am not saying all immigrants are ungrateful lazy fucking bastards planning to kill us all.....the vast majority are very nice ....my family were immigrants

it was you who mentioned the 7/7 bombers..

There are so many things about this thread that leave me quietly seething.

I don't subscribe to the idea that the refugees should always be someone else's problem. And the inhumanity in Greece or Italy or France does not of course excuse our own inhumanity.

Oh and this gem:

"I would also point out that when the Brits withdrew from somewhere they'd colonised they did leave some semblance of order,"

Tell it to the Irish, or the Palestinians, or the Indians during partition.

No but I did take a fair few of their 'men'!

we're not letting them in Riven....what i heard anyway...France can deal with them.

'when the Brits withdrew from somewhere they'd colonised they did leave some semblance of order,"'

I was also under the impression that, in many of these foreign colonies, they withdrew via retreat, having been forced out.

How can anyone say this is not racist 'France can deal with them'

The rot set in with you yanks, Expat and your tea parties. Ungrateful you were.

france can deal with them because they are actually in france...no need for them to come here....what is it you don't understand ..?

i will try and dumb this down even more for you...but don't think i can..

if you wouldn't mind

sorry NH....just realized...i can't draw pictures on this laptop...

Oh, I know, Quattro! People should be grateful to pay tax to foreign land far away and have no representation and no entitlement to citizenship to that land.

And imagine all those sell-out Prussian mercenaries!

Insolent bastards! Turning in their redcoats for a paltry free few hectares of land.

Surely we left you with railways (or their equivalent). Anyway we left you with tea

noddyholder, I think it is racist to suggest that the Franch can't deal with them without our help.

Btw there was a traffic jam in Milan this morning. I just mention it in case anything thinks that is our problem too.

Btw Expat, about us being forced out of countries. I'm really no expert, but I think the commonwealth was filled by countries we let go of on purpose. I'm sure there was all kind of politics underneath and we thought it best for us in the long run, but it was as quite as simple as being chased away.

"not quite as simple" and nor was that sentence in the end

sorry but I can't see that it is racist to suggest that france should deal with the problem, if you think it is, could you please explain why?

I reckon DP's playing Devils advocate

Well...hopefully she is

I think people are too quick to judge others and don't realise that in this country we are privileged to live in decent houses with easy access to healthcare, education, food etc. We moan and moan about this country cos most of us have no idea how millions of people live in other countries. It is easy to turn a blind eye or decide that people who want a better life (don't we all?)have no place here, dump them somewhere else but we should all be treating others as we want others to treat us.
Genuine asylum seekers that i teach come from appalling situations and the EU students that I have, again the majority, work their arses off in shitty jobs in care homes or as cleaners or factorys. And most of them will say life is much better for them here. Of course you get people who come here saying they are asylum seekers when they are not and just want to get a job and have a better life and what does that say about the state of the world? It is a sad situation indeed when you get people so desperate to get here that they will risk their lives.

saramoon but they are safe now, they are in france.
there isn't enough to go round in this country as it is.
you go to SS in April for help.... cos it is the start of the finacial year, and they are already over budget, why cos they don't get enough money from the goverment. if we keep getting more people in this country who need to access these services, do you think the goverment will up the budgets??? as if.

I absolutely agree, SM.

Every word.