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And in 10 years' time after thousands of refugees allowed in....




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We can all use emotive images to get our point across.
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Their fault because there are plenty of safe nearby countries to flee to that doesn't require crossing the sea...


Why not go to Turkey or Jordan?
Better stop them from boarding the boats, then.
Original post by ☺ ♥ ☺
Their fault...


I sensibly wonder how this can be anyone's response to that photograph. Not unvoiced, not blurted out, typed and 'submit reply'.
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The left wing media have gone into overdrive with this picture. First of all the family were leaving Turkey for Europe and Turkey is a safe nation, second they have used to picture to say the UK should open our borders when this will only encourage more immigrants to come & make images like this more likely to happen

If you don't want to see images like this again the EU needs to close its borders & reject entry to boats just like Australia did, it worked in Australia and they have had no boat deaths for 2 years
Original post by LockheedSpooky
And in 10 years' time after thousands of refugees allowed in....




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We can all use emotive images to get our point across.


Except there have been 350,000 refugees in the past nine months and, what, six terrorists in the past ten years.
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Original post by Ace123
The left wing media have gone into overdrive with this picture. First of all the family were leaving Turkey for Europe and Turkey is a safe nation, second they have used to picture to say the UK should open our borders when this will only encourage more immigrants to come & make images like this more likely to happen

If you don't want to see images like this again the EU needs to close its borders & reject entry to boats just like Australia did, it worked in Australia and they have had no boat deaths for 2 years


Turkey may not be safe for Kurds which IIRC this boy was. Plus they are perfectly entitled to pass through Turkey and claim in Greece under the third country rule.

It's actually supposed to help spread asylum seekers out rather than having them all flood into two or three immediately neighbouring countries, so you should be supporting it.
Original post by fatart123
They don't give them money to piss away on TVs and other luxuries.


We give asylum seekers 35 quid a week which is literally not enough to live on. No wonder only 2,000 of them are at Calais wanting to come over here.
Original post by Skip_Snip
Better stop them from boarding the boats, then.


You can swim from Turkey to Kos
Original post by scrotgrot
Except there have been 350,000 refugees in the past nine months and, what, six terrorists in the past ten years.


Are 6 terrorists too little for you?
Original post by ☺ ♥ ☺
Their fault because there are plenty of safe nearby countries to flee to that doesn't require crossing the sea...


Why not go to Turkey or Jordan?


Yeah with the 1.7 other million Syrian refugees...
Original post by LockheedSpooky
And in 10 years' time after thousands of refugees allowed in....




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We can all use emotive images to get our point across.


If you just took the time to think what these people have gone through, then maybe you'd have some sympathy. Watch just one interview with someone stuff at the border, or at a refugee camp. Do they look to you like a terrorist? Or someone, who after suffering so much for so long, is desperately trying to escape hardship and do the best thing for their family...
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Original post by Skip_Snip
Better stop them from boarding the boats, then.


Oh, so that they can just die elsewhere, and you can pretend that it didn't happen...
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There needs to be an EU-wide initiative to send these people to distribute the burden of these refugees across all of the member states. The idea that they should all come to the UK is simply laughable.
Original post by HucktheForde
Are 6 terrorists too little for you?


Well yes, too few to make the equivalence. Of course, LS wants to drop a nuclear bomb on the Middle East, so maybe he's planning to show them how it's done
Original post by scrotgrot
Well yes, too few to make the equivalence. Of course, LS wants to drop a nuclear bomb on the Middle East, so maybe he's planning to show them how it's done


great. now we have people who thinks there are too little terrorists in the country.
Original post by HucktheForde
great. now we have people who thinks there are too little terrorists in the country.


Lol learn to read - too few terrorists vs asylum seekers to make the equivalence between the two emotive pictures.

Not to mention the indescribably offensive assumption it carries with it: that the dead two-year old child is out of the same mould as a terrorist, presumably due to being a Muslim.
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Original post by VannR
There needs to be an EU-wide initiative to send these people to distribute the burden of these refugees across all of the member states. The idea that they should all come to the UK is simply laughable.


Who's suggesting they should all come to the UK?
Original post by scrotgrot
Lol learn to read - too few terrorists vs asylum seekers to make the equivalence between the two emotive pictures.

Not to mention the indescribably offensive assumption it carries with it: that the dead two-year old child is out of the same mould as a terrorist, presumably due to being a Muslim.

Look whos talking.

You are the first one to take my question out of context.

Let me educate you, in the modern world, one terrorist is too many, culture shock? welcome to democracy.

Or we should change our expectation for terrorist count per capita just to prepare for the incoming refugees,
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