Deluded Gullible Mugs, Every Last One Of Them...

[bazwillrun]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/how-do-i-offer-a-room-to-a-refugee

My description was being kind...

dont recall them offering to do the same for the UK's homeless...

[Togo]

Typical Guardianista salve for their emotionally incontinent client base. They will not publish a list in due course of guardian wavers who have taken in refugees. The sickening thing is they even have the gall to set the article up to look like an official government pamphlet. Their readers can sit sipping their lattes and nibbling a low fat croissant whilst preening in self righteous piety.

[anotheoldgit]

/// However, there are an estimated 200,000 refused asylum seekers (pdf) living in the UK who are destitute. These are people who have been unable to prove their asylum case to the government but say they are unable to return to their home country, often Eritrea, Iran or Iraq, for fear of persecution. ///

They have been refused Asylum, so therefore they should not be in this country.

Get rid of this 200,000 then there may be room for some genuine asylum seekers.

[VHG]

I went up to Birmingham last weekend early on Saturday morning and saw at least 6 people sleeping in doorways.

So lets help people who are already here instead of encouraging more.

Also how do we know what background some of the refugees have. They may be trying to escape their country because they have done a murder or rape or other serious crime.

And when people do come here they behave like this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3238363/Romanian-criminal-family-follow-grandmother-Cardiff-bus-steal-1-250-her.html

[andy-hughes]

I think this notion of offering a room to a refugee is an admirable show of compassion, but it does seem to be rather more about the hosts than the recipients.

In my view, this is tantamount to regarding refugees as being like students - they can come and live in your house for ten weeks at a time, and help with the washing up, maybe walk the dog, that sort of thing.

Of course, the reality would be utterly different!

How do you share a home with someone who eats differently dresses differently, has no experience of running water / western toilets / television / electric light, living in a town, and as something of a fundamental, speaks no English!

It's like people who say they are 'saving the planet' by doing without one of their two cars for a year - it makes them feel great, in reality, it does nothing useful whatsoever.

[Jackdaw33]

AH, AOG could well have written that!

[Togo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/columnist-322/Richard-Littlejohn-Daily-Mail.html
Todays article says just about it.

[andy-hughes]

Jackdaw - "AH, AOG could well have written that!"

I cannot say what AOG would write - but I am interested in what point you are making with that observation?

[hc4361]

Andy-H, that is a huge assumption, that refugees have never experienced running water, electricity, television, city life nor can speak English.

I bet some of them have even used a knife and fork.

[Jackdaw33]

The point I am making is that you both agree on something, quite a rarity.

[andy-hughes]

hc4361 - //Andy-H, that is a huge assumption, that refugees have never experienced running water, electricity, television, city life nor can speak English.//

It may be - but if everything you say is true, that does not infer that being uplifted from their country of origin and plonked in the spare room with Mr and Mrs Sprockett in Dulwich is a viable alternative to where they are now.

[anotheoldgit]

Jackdaw33

/// AH, AOG could well have written that! ///

No the magic words are "it's their culture" that's when all hell is let loose.

[andy-hughes]

Jackdaw - "The point I am making is that you both agree on something, quite a rarity."

I can't say that AOG agrees with me or not - he has yet to venture an opinion either way on this thread.