Migrants Stranded At Sea

[-SharonA-]

Italy is refusing to allow a boat with over 600 migrants to dock at it's ports. https://news.sky.com/story/italy-shuts-ports-to-rescue-ship-carrying-over-600-migrants-11401125. Good on Italy. I bet you ask those migrants where they're aiming for, I bet they say England!!

[murraymints]

agree Naomi..but the reports kind of suggest they were given permission to land and that was then rescinded ? whatever..steps need to be taken to stop this happening in the first place ..it has to be placed in the hands of the politicians now..

[ToraToraTora]

worry ye not! This is Italy, the most famous country in the world for changing their minds. They'll be docking by tea time and in Calais by this time next week, where they will all be designated as children and shipped off to Englandistan.

[murraymints]

one fact is for sure.. Europe as a whole including this nation cannot continue to take unlimited immigrants without the indigenous populations suffering in one way or another...at a time when we can't take proper care of our own needy..sick..ill homeless.... if only there was a magic wand :0(

[naomi24]

spath, //Naomi your blunt attitude towards this is shocking. //

So be it. Your naivety is unsurprising.

[Ellipsis]

You just know that if it had been a boatful of animals the response would be entirely different ...

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, one boatful wouldn’t have been a problem. It’s the repeated boatfuls that are creating the problem. It's unsustainable.

[naomi24]

spath, with all due respect I've done rather more than read two articles.

[naomi24]

Yes, spath, I have.

[naomi24]

spath, ^that to your post at 10:39. Your next is best treated as the nonsense it is.

[naomi24]

spath, //so they must all be ignored until they go back to where they come from, die of starvation or drown. //

Who said that?

[youngmafbog]

"die of starvation or drown."

NOBODY has said that.

Stop twisting things for your own agenda.

[cassa333]

These people do not need rescuing from their own shoreline. Which is what these charities are doing. As I said on pg 3. The ‘rescue’ ships should not be used like a taxi version of the RNLI. They should be in their own waters at the very least.

I do think that once given permission to land it shouldn’t have been rescinded. But none after that. Righteous indignation by anyone adds nothing to the fact (if working within the law or willing to take the consequences) that Italy should be able to determine who comes to their country and how. That’s sovereignty for you.

Within their own continent there are safe havens and they should be going there. That is where the aid should be going and that is where these people should be taken to.

As far as I am concerned no one a floating death trap should be allowed to stay or even reach the Mediterranean shore and should be shipped back. If they then want to return they apply like any other person should.

The fact is if you allow one boat full of people (of mainly young single unaccompanied men) or economic migrants to get in this way then twenty boats will follow and another twenty and so on.

[Ellipsis]

Clearly one boatload is a problem because if the first boat had been dealt with differently then we would not be where we are now.

We have to accept that the problem is partly of our own making and therefore if our solution is to suddenly decide "No more" then we are accountable for the outcome of that ...

Not sure quite who I mean by "We", BTW, but it's some combination of Italy/the EU ...