CALL TO ACTION RE 3000 CHILD REFUGEES

[fallingapartfast]

CALL TO ACTION! If you have or know kids who can write at all, please get them to write to David Cameron regarding the hideous and shameful decision by the Government not to give refuge to 3000 unaccompanied children fleeing war. The goal is to get 3000 letters through his letterbox by the end of the week.
Write to:
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Please share this far and wide on your social media networks and pass on the idea by word of mouth

[howtorebuild]

Ok well maybe people who don't push children into writing care too, so what's your point other than ask in the op to write and follow up with an example letter type query.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Tate - again with the paranoia. Some of us are actually capable of caring about the kids, not the politics you know.

[wtftodo]

Aaah the old "you can't possibly be justified in worrying about THIS if you haven't also solved EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD" 'argument'.
I think it's a nice idea. Anything that facilitates children getting engaged in world issues, great. If your kids aren't interested in this, fine. If you don't want to involve them, or don't agree with the impetus behind it, or the proposals, or solutions, fine. I don't think the OP should be attacked for having an idea that not everyone agrees with. I don't think anyone who does agree should be attacked for not personally solving the problem of world poverty or for having different politics from the posters who hate this idea.

[howtorebuild]

I don't understand why you have to be so forceful with the bleeding heart thing, it's a massive manipulation in my view and put off.

[hownottofuckup]

Nobody's suggested pushing children into it. I don't understand the rest of your post. Or why anyone would be that strongly against other people's children writing such letter's if they like.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

So it's do as I say, not as I do?

Empty words and virtue posturing, I'm afraid.
If you are happy to invite someone, then by definition you offer them a place to stay.

[hownottofuckup]

Yet again wtftodo put it much better than me!

[OrangesandLemonsNow]

I don't think the OP should be attacked for having an idea that not everyone agrees with

I don't think people that people's character should be attacked that don't agree with OP either.

[AnnaForbes]

How many really are children? Ali Bahmani posed as a child refugee and raped a girl on a hospital ward.

It's widely acknowledged that adults pose as children in order to exploit the system.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

these threads always get derailed with the whatabouters

it's dead easy

are you/your kids interested in kids fleeing war zones and would you like to do a little cute thing that might engender a bit of positive publicity? yes/no

if yes, do the thing
if no, don't do the thing

[hownottofuckup]

What are you on about Chardonnay
For one thing OP has already said she would be prepared to do so.
For another, not everyone is going to be in a position to be able to offer a home to a refugee child. That doesn't mean they can't help in other ways or are prohibited from petitioning for more aid for them.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

OP is this a facebook campaign, or affiliated to a group or whatnot, is there a name for it, or have you just thought of it/put it on mn?

want to share but don't want to link to mn if it's not necessary

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

She said she might put her name on a gov database when or if the gov start one.
She can apply immediately to be a foster parent, then either take in refugee children or take the pressure off the system.
If she wanted to.
And then her/her DCs letter would carry more weight.

[fallingapartfast]

Thanks muddha hownot wtftodo and ohyou for supportive comments.

I worded some posts badly and came across as passive aggresive. I am upset and I'm angry - not with posters (or their children) who don't want to join this action but with the Tory Ministers who blocked the amendment in the vote last night.

If people want to ask their kids if they want to join the action then that will be brilliant.

[hownottofuckup]

It's not a pre requisite for writing it.

[fallingapartfast]

Muddha there's no group - it's going round fb a bit but prob best way is to copy and paste or to rewrite in your own words? It would be really great to get 3000 letters through his letterbox.

[OneWingWonder]

fallingapart

Each of those 3000 could easily cost £100,000 in specialist services to support every year. That's £300 million pounds a year - would you like to volunteer to have your services cut and your taxes rise to pay for it?

[hownottofuckup]

To help protect a displaced and traumatised generation? Absolutely. In fact it could turn out to be quite cost effective in the long run. These children will be my children's peers, there's no merit in playing blind to the prospect of future conflicts.
Why let history repeat itself.

[OneWingWonder]

Here is a tragic case of virtue-signalling gone fatally wrong: this January, a young woman was murdered in Sweden by an adult refugee pretending to be a 15 year old.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/12153428/Child-migrant-who-killed-asylum-centre-worker-is-an-adult-Swedish-migration-rules.html

"The asylum seeker who stabbed 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher to death at an accommodation centre in Sweden last month is an adult, not a 15-year-old as he had claimed, Sweden’s migration agency has ruled.
Ms Mezher was stabbed at the centre for refugee children aged between 14 and 17 who are without any adult guardians in Molndal near Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast."

"It will add to growing suspicions that a large portion of the 35,000 unaccompanied refugee minors who claimed asylum in the country last year have lied about their age, claiming to be under-18 in order to take advantage of more generous asylum rules."

Thanks but no thanks.

[GooseberryRoolz]

I'll write on my own account.

The suggestion that children should be persuaded to write is problematic to me. Not to mention twee.

[GooseberryRoolz]

I'll write on my own account.

The suggestion that children should be persuaded to write is problematic to me. Not to mention twee.

[redhat]

I'm reluctant to join the bun fight however one of the very real reasons for not taking is these children is the fact that it will encourage the traffickers to bring in more and more unaccompanied children who are vulnerable and unable to take care of themselves and so can easily disappear. If we have learnt anything from the fiasco of the past year or so it should be that opening the doors does not solve the problem, it simply creates a bigger problem.

We have a stated position, to take in a certain number of genuine refugees who follow the rules. We should stick with that policy.

[GooseberryRoolz]

And wrist x-rays (before departure) could deal with the (admittedly endemic) problem of young adults posing as children.

[OneWingWonder]

hownotto

"To help protect a displaced and traumatised generation? Absolutely."

Fantastic - please post your cheque for £100,000 to HMRC, and remember to start saving for next year too.

[RebootYourEngine]

We dont have the sources to support these children. We dont have the teachers or schools to support children already in this country. We dont have the houses for everyone already in this country.