Channel deaths | Four confirmed dead after migrant boat tragically capsizes (p 41)

[bluethrunthru]

They are humans - Mums, Dads, sons, daughters and children - not migrants not illegals and until we get a government which understands this rather than de-humanising those who die we will never resolve things.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

They are all of those things.

 

[Postman Pep]

That'll explain the COBRA meeting then. For a minute I thought wave machines were back on the agenda.

 

[tosh1]

Where were they crossing from?

 

[ganganvince]

Where were they crossing from?

It's reported as Calais.

Migrants’ boat sank in Channel after ‘being hit by container ship’

Row breaks out between France and UK as dozens more migrants risk crossing

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Didsbury Dave]

How long before some **** writes “It’s a tragedy but…”? I’m giving it another half dozen posts.

 

[tosh1]

Every deaths a tragedy, as the op says, women, kids, families but the "until we get a govt" narrative. Who's government is responsible? Couldn't the French do more to stop them leaving? They could but won't, they're happy to see the backs of what they see as parasites. So, It falls on our govt to do more? Say, send a coupe of ferries to pick them up in batches? How many do we propose to collect? A lucky few, a few hundred, thousand? And then what? It is a problem, its a big problem but it shouldn't just fall on us.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Every deaths a tragedy, as the op says, women, kids, families but the "until we get a govt" narrative. Who's government is responsible? Couldn't the French do more to stop them leaving? They could but won't, they're happy to see the backs of what they see as parasites. So, It falls on our govt to do more? Say, send a coupe of ferries to pick them up in batches? How many do we propose to collect? A lucky few, a few hundred, thousand? And then what? It is a problem, its a big problem but it shouldn't just fall on us.

We could set up a system where refugees can seek asylum before setting foot in the U.K..

This would stop a lot of these crossings and horrific deaths.

 

[mexico1970]

We could set up a system where refugees can seek asylum before setting foot in the U.K..

This would stop a lot of these crossings and horrific deaths.

This has to be the way forward mate.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Every deaths a tragedy, as the op says, women, kids, families but the "until we get a govt" narrative. Who's government is responsible? Couldn't the French do more to stop them leaving? They could but won't, they're happy to see the backs of what they see as parasites. So, It falls on our govt to do more? Say, send a coupe of ferries to pick them up in batches? How many do we propose to collect? A lucky few, a few hundred, thousand? And then what? It is a problem, its a big problem but it shouldn't just fall on us.

If we set up a workable asylum system that acts quickly and humanely that would go a long way to resolving them - the UK broken Govt's system has in effect created the business of people smuggling. If there is a workable accessible system set up then nobody would need smugglers and the business model we have developed for them would be bust.