Who's That Overage Guy Who Has Smuggled Himself On Yet Another 18-20 Cross Channel Cruise?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3850840/Third-batch-child-migrants-begin-journey-Calais-Jungle-UK-Home-Office-admit-two-thirds-past-children-lied-age-officials.html

[jackthehat]

Is it Groundhog Day again, already.....?

[anotheoldgit]

/// They added that children may appear older 'because war has toughened them up'. ///

Didn't notice this on those who went through WW2.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// Is it Groundhog Day again, already.....? ///

In the trade it is called 'running news'.

[ummmm]

You weren't the only person who lived through WW2.

[Islay]

De ja vu?

[Baldric]

///Official figures show that in the year ending September 2015, some 590 asylum applicants had their age disputed. Of those, 574 had an age assessment – with 371 were found to be adults.
Since 2006 there have been 11,121 age disputes. Of those, 4,828 – or 43 per cent – were found to have been adults///

[jackthehat]

......or trying to find a new way to present a well-trodden news story....

[Mamyalynne]

I don't know who he is, honest.

[andy-hughes]

When I read this quickly, I though it said 'Orange Guy' - so I thought it was going to be a Trump story!

[youngmafbog]

Well the story is now that the Home Office are admitting 2/3 interviews were adults last year.

Interesting to see the usual trying to shut down a very valid and concerning thread.

[naomi24]

jackthehat, //or trying to find a new way to present a well-trodden news story.... //

Is this a well-trodden news story? I wouldn't have thought so. I've just heard Andrew Neil in the Daily Politics say the same thing.

[jackthehat]

Perhaps I've been paying greater attention?

[naomi24]

Or perhaps not.

[Baldric]

///Yesterday, one migrant in particular, wearing a blue hoodie with stubble on his chin, was rated by a facial recognition program as having the features of a 38-year-old.
A Home Office spokesman admitted that routine medical tests, such as checking dental records, have not been carried out because it could be 'intrusive'///

You just couldn't make it up!

[-Talbot-]

And yet if you get arrested the police can take happy snaps, fingerprints and DNA ... even if it turns out they were wrong to arrest you.

[anotheoldgit]

Here is Katie Hopkins slant on things, anyone brave enough to question her?

/// Once again, women and children appear to be last in the line where migrants are involved. That is not the British way. Our culture does not see women as second class. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3851230/KATIE-HOPKINS-kidding-War-hell-doesn-t-turn-Benjamin-Button.html

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// You weren't the only person who lived through WW2. ///

And have you any proof that I ever said that I was the only person who lived through WW2?

But it is quite obvious that I was not the only one, so what an utterly silly thing for you to say.

[naomi24]

From that article: // But we [a generous country] will not be mocked. We will not be apologised for, or laughed at.//

Too late.

[ladybirder]

It's headlines on the news just now and in today's papers so I don't know why people are disparaging AOG's thread unless by chance they have an opposing opinion.

[naomi24]

^The link posted at 13:26 Wed.