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Anyone watch this? I was a bit disappointed that they seem to have picked the anti-immigration people from the usual stereotype, working class, not travelled much, bit thick, as some of their points were very valid. I will be interested to see what happens when they get to the first safe country on route to the UK.

i watched this. i couldn't understand why they agreed to go to the countries in the first place. the risk assessments must have been a nightmare! i also wondered how much of the 'incidents' were set up for added drama as i can't see any production company getting away with taking those risks.
i'm interested to see how it pans out though and what their views are like at the end.

Felt like a co-ordinated piece of propaganda to guilt us in to taking more refugees who are completely at odds with western values.

People who push for FGM, rapists, war criminals, murderers - no thanks.

Just started watching it. That Welsh lad is winding me up already....

Sorry, I meant lass

I think we've found a candidate for series 2..

Some of the comments were uncomfortable and not that well-backed up or thought out. Though the Northern Chef seemed to reevaluate his beliefs after meeting the Syrian family whIch I appreciated

I can't believe the stupid questions they are asking people in appalling conditions. The lack of understanding even when they can see and hear the circumstances for themselves.

Stereotypes came about for a reason.

I started watching but turned off, the set up was poor, I couldn’t see how it was going to benefit anyone.

Not sure how differently they could do this in terms of putting those people in the countries that are war torn or have suffered famines. I wouldn't let them ask such ignorant and inflammatory questions though. They have no empathy at all and I feel for the 1 in each trio that has a brain.

I’ve only watched the first two episodes. Nathan (Big Barnsley bloke) is absolutely disgusting, making jokes about FGM and calling all refugees “Benefit scroungers”. The way he sneered at the poverty in Mogadishu was sickening.

Chloe (posh Oxford graduate) is obviously an out and out sociopath with zero empathy. Maybe she’s planning a career on being the next Katie Hopkins.

The girl from Wales is obviously so traumatised from her attacks that she genuinely believes all foreign men are rapists. I do have sympathy for her, despite her racist views.

It’s just utterly depressing.

It does get slightly better..

Episode 4 and it did get better. Worth a watch.

I've just binged the four episodes and I'm in floods of tears, for the people in all the countries they visited and for the six of them because it was hard for them all.

And most of all to see the changes in attitudes from they who just believed that all the immigrants coming in on the small boat routes were rapists and cold molesters.
I think they all agreed by the end that a legal route needs to set up, at the very least. Along with ways to stop the wars in Sudan, Syria etc.

I had not expected to see the antis soften at all, but they could not help but be moved by what they saw and learned.
Whatever your view I would recommend it. But you'll need tissues to hand to cope with the sadness of the reality of what they saw.

Just catching up with this program, about to watch episode 4. Chloe makes me so angry, she is heartless.

My husband is a refugee from Iran, and travelled much of the journey they have made and entered the UK illegally due to no safe routes. He has worked hard to build a life here in the UK and we have a little girl together. What they go through on the programme is nothing compared to the true reality, he has been watching along with me. But obviously for safety reasons they couldn't put the groups through the true reality. But he went without food and water, was thrown into a dangerous prison in Bulgaria for a mth, attacked, robbed, sleep deprived ...

He is the most resilient person I have ever met, despite everything he is such a positive person and makes the most of every opportunity in life.

I don't think it will change the views of most. But if it changes the opinion of just 1 person, that's something.

I watched five minutes of the first episode and gave up. The contestants are the most ignorant objectionable bunch of Neanderthals imaginable apart from one. Where did Channel Four find them, at the bottom of a cesspit?

ETA clarity about who I’m referring to

Was anyone else completely shocked by the conditions in Calais? Anyone asking “Why can’t they stay in France. France is safe” should be made to watch it.

I started watching it, then stopped as I too didn't really enjoy the production type. I went back to it today. There's a lad on it Who said to one of the migrants: 'why the UK? Why wouldn't you go to Sweden? The women there are (insert a big boob gesture)' - it's really hard to sit there and try to understand the viewpoint of somebody who speaks like this.