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mikey4444 | 09:37 Thu 03rd Sep 2015 | News
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/refugee-crisis-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-turkey-trying-to-reach-canada#img-1

This is a heart-breaking picture. What do our "righties" think ? Should we help these people or not ? This refugee crisis is now being talked about as the worst in Europe since WW2.

The full story is here ::

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/refugee-crisis-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-turkey-trying-to-reach-canada

Just in case anyone thinks this is the Guardian making its usual fuss, this is the Independent today :::

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/if-these-extraordinarily-powerful-images-of-a-dead-syrian-child-washed-up-on-a-beach-dont-change-europes-attitude-to-refugees-what-will-10482757.html


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Surley we can do something? Even if its not "opening the floodgates" surley we can still help?? This breaks my heart- the horror. Id be on that boat trying to save my childs life if god forbid i was in that situation. There must be something our countries can do between us all to help. I work with a gentleman whos sister was planning on getting a boat she lives in...
09:52 Thu 03rd Sep 2015
It is indeed a very tragic, emotive and sad picture. If anyone believes that the floodgates of Europe should be opened as a result of this awful photograph then their hearts rule their brains and perhaps shouldn't get involved in politics.
There is no easy answer to this problem.

We need a dispassionate and unemotional approach to this whether by an Old Etonian or someone from the Comprehensive State education system.

Children die, murdered, mutilated, abused and pictures like this that we see should not colour or bias our approach to the situation.
How many would you like us to help, Mikey? However much we want to help Europe simply cannot accommodate an endless (and it is endless) stream of incomers.
It is utterly heartbreaking, and it encapsulates the horror and misery of this entire situation for the poor people involved.

Until world governments are willing to look at seriously re-distributing some of the world's wealth to prevent these scenarios, then we are doomed to keep watching people live - and die - through them.

Hint - what about parking the space programmes for a few decades?
Tragic yes, but people shouldnt be swayed by shock tactics of these pictures....

if we keep letting people in here , they will keep on coming in ever greater numbers, we are already seen as an easy touch, which we are without doubt....

there are plenty of other countries across the planet that could take people if they wanted to..africa has plenty of safe places, so why dont people look to go there ?

As it stands we are under attack and its no good letting every body that wants to come here in, no matter the reasons.
If people value their country then they need to stand against this invasion, and on here theres some who obviously couldnt care less about the country.
surprised you are using this to start a left/right slanging match mikey. I'm not going to repeat the obvious again here, just a little shocked at you.
Surley we can do something?

Even if its not "opening the floodgates" surley we can still help??

This breaks my heart- the horror. Id be on that boat trying to save my childs life if god forbid i was in that situation.

There must be something our countries can do between us all to help.

I work with a gentleman whos sister was planning on getting a boat she lives in libya he has already lost alot of his family. He is a well respected doctor. Its tragic.
The papers love this kind of story.."if it bleeds it sells" is their motto !
"Even if its not "opening the floodgates" surley we can still help?? "

when is enough enough ?..its never ending

The people coming from Syria are fleeing a murderous war. We should do more to help them. Germany, for example, puts us to shame. They'll be taking more than 800,000 thousand refugees. How many Syrians have we accepted? A few thousand, I think.
Economic migrants are a very different matter. Do we really need curry chefs from the Indian sub continent? We should harden our hearts against them.
a superfluous 'thousand' there ^
I dont know baz im in no way politically minded which is probobly very obvious from my posts- im just trying to join in.

Hopefully you or yours never end up in a situation such as this. X
andy-hughes, if these people are fleeing a war zone how would a redistribution of wealth cure the problem? It wouldn't bring peace which is presumably the only thing that would encourage them to remain in their home countries.
Forget the *** politics - what about the humanity??
In the past when war/conflicts hit these countries, people's fled the war zones into their neighbouring countries and stayed there until it was safe to return to their homes.

Now, they want to risk the lives of their families and tiny children, not because they are fleeing conflict but, for a "better life."

Why?
Quote in local paper today:

"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realised I am somebody"
People still go to neighbouring countries to escape wars. There were millions of Afghani refugees in Pakistan, for example.
Lebanon is a tiny country hosting many thousands of Syrians.
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TTT...this photo is on the front of most newspapers in Britain, and its a perfectly OK subject for debate. Is it really too much to ask that we can debate this subject without it degenerating into a slanging match ? The nearest some on here have come to expressing sympathy with this crisis, is to say that destroying ancient buildings makes them cry.

Most of these poor people are fleeing an appalling and savage civil war in Syria. It was reported today that ISIS is using chemical weapons, in the same way that the butcher Assad has done in the past, as his father did before him.

I believe we can do something. Germany has shown the way here by welcoming refugees, and I believe we in Britain can, and should do more.
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Germany does not put us to shame.We have been taking in more immigrants than Germany since the start of the millenium.
England is nearly twice as crowded as Germany and has more migrants per head of population !!
The blame for this, if we have any, lies more with the 'let them in' brigade than the 'righties

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