Priti Vacant has a plan, a deal with migrants plan.

[blueparrot]

Do what Australia do and send em back. If they wanted a safe haven then they would have travelled through enough Countries for that, it pisses me right off...

So only the countries that border the source of the refugees have a responsiblity to deal with the problem. As we don’t border any we can just wash our hands of our share ?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

We also repeatedly sell arms across the globe, as do the US, and often to regimes that we know are destroying communities. It is not 1948 but if we are willing to have a role in the destruction of communities then we also have an ongoing responsibility.

That sounds quite simplistic and moralistic.

I’m asking for practical and legal, that a population of British people might find acceptable, unless you want to stand on your moral high ground and watch as the human misery continues beneath you.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

So only the countries that border the source of the refugees have a responsiblity to deal with the problem. As we don’t border any we can just wash our hands of our share ?

What is “our share” and not only WHERE is it written, but WHO DECIDED there was “a share” and WHAT Britain’s “share” was?

It’s sweeping generalizations like this that stake out territory without ever addressing the problems, and thus getting to the solutions!

 

[moggymoz]

So only the countries that border the source of the refugees have a responsiblity to deal with the problem. As we don’t border any we can just wash our hands of our share ?

Yep, pretty much in a nutshell.

 

[oldius]

That sounds quite simplistic and moralistic.

I’m asking for practical and legal, that a population of British people might find acceptable, unless you want to stand on your moral high ground and watch as the human misery continues beneath you.

I cannot give you a solution that is acceptable to the majority of the British people because I am intrinsically at odds with what is popular. I live in a highly multi cultural area and find it joyous, not the misery you mention.

In terms of simple and moral, yes - of course, we should not be making £5bn arms deals with Saudi Arabia when we know what is going on in Yemen, for example.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

?
what does YMMV mean?

Your mileage may vary. I’m sorry, it is a common abbreviation here.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Gunboats in the channel would be my plan for the "boat people". Turn up on a dingy and you get the shit shot out of you. Only downside might be if someone is on holiday and goes a bit too far out on their lilo!

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Gunboats in the channel would be my plan for the "boat people". Turn up on a dingy and you get the shit shot out of you. Only downside might be if someone is on holiday and goes a bit too far out on their lilo!

WTF! Collateral damage mate. Happens all time.

 

[blueparrot]

What is “our share” and not only WHERE is it written, but WHO DECIDED there was “a share” and WHAT Britain’s “share” was?

It’s sweeping generalizations like this that stake out territory without ever addressing the problems, and thus getting to the solutions!

Sorry if I think I live in a country that takes its moral responsibility to help the needy as a something to be proud of. As it historically has, whichever government has been in power.
I for one don’t want that to be eroded. Don’t really care whether you do or not.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I cannot give you a solution that is acceptable to the majority of the British people because I am intrinsically at odds with what is popular.

In terms of simple and moral, yes - of course, we should not be making £5bn arms deals with Saudi Arabia when we know what is going on in Yemen, for example.

Clearly, trying to fix all problems in the world in one fail swoop is a fool’s errand, especially when attacking major industries is part of the plan, so let’s settle on what YOUR version of a reasonable immigration & asylum policy might look like, as a Starter for 10, as it were.