I didn’t have a tantrum and no I don’t think it is pathetic. What I think is pathetic is this focus on the odd bad apple whilst ignoring the vast majority of genuine refugees. As for your point about France, what has that got to do with anything? If you need to make a new life somewhere and speak English not French or have relatives in England not France, why would you stay in France? Why should France have to deal with all migration just because there is a thin strip of water between us? I’m sure you know that asylum seekers do not have to apply for asylum in the first safe country they come to. It makes perfect sense for them to seek asylum where it works best for them. I am sure you know too that we take far fewer asylum seekers than other European countries.
A seven year old girl drowned the other day. But you carry on focussing on the bad guys.
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Ben Habib says navy or Border Force should not save people who throw themselves into sea if they have refused other vessels
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Well in that case I feel no guilt whatsoever for the tragedy in the channel. All the migrants were in France. A safe country and each was faced with a choice. Stay there and apply, or board a seriously over loaded dinghy in the full knowledge that the choice could be fatal. They chose the latter. Now someone may choose to walk down the middle of the M1 at 2am wearing black clothes. If they did I would first of all question their sanity, and second of all I would point out that there is more than an even chance that they would get mown by a large
duck off lorry. It is if course a tragedy, but it's a tragedy which could have been avoided by the simple expedience of not walking down the M1 at 2am. Perhaps you feel the government should put up a sign every five miles saying something along the lines of "Walking on the motorway is a
bleeping stupid thing to do". Perhaps they should also put up a sign on Calais beaches saying "An overloaded dinghy is likely to sink, your call". And please don't tell me that they have no choice. They simply need to find the nearest Gendarme.
The thin strip of water you refer to is the English channel. Unfortunately this is a geographical reality and has been since the decline of the last ice age many 100,000 years ago. The channel means that the UK is an island and it isn't possible to get here directly unless you a) fly, or b) master the ability to walk on water, or c) transmute yourself into a flat stone and skim yourself across. If none of these apply then you passed through several safe countries on your way here and chose the perilous crossing every time. Chose. You didn't have too. You had other options. You had several options. You chose badly.
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