Points to Ponder

[Hugo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5e5q7w41eo

[Hugo]

Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel's 'We can do it' to pulling up the drawbridg


Was Merkel at fault allowing the mass migration in to the EU without any plans for the future?
Hungary put a wire fence across their border as they didn't want the migrants coming to them.   Slovenia agree to accept just under 300 migrants but only if the migrants were Christian as they have no Mosques in Slovenia.     Then there is Italy in 1991 when they returned 15,000 illegal Albanian migrants who arrived in 5 ships at Bari.   They were returned to Albania in those same ships within days
Those three countries didn't want the migrants and as far as I know nothing was ever done against the three countries so why can't other countries do the same?

Perhaps there is no simple answer but whatever happens the situation in the UK is unsustainable
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5e5q7w41eo

[Hugo]

Eritrean man wins block on removal to France under 'one in, one out' deal

Is this deal becoming a farce before it has even started?        Just who is paying for the cost of the lawyers involved?         It's bonkers





https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dqe2443l1o

[Ian]

there is Italy in 1991 when they returned 15,000 illegal Albanian migrants who arrived in 5 ships at Bari.

It wasn't quite as simple as it has been made to appear.

[Hugo]

15,000 mainly young men landed in Bari in Italy and they were all put back on the ships and sent back to Albania within a matter of day.  No appeals or Human Rights to delay the deportation, do you know of any problem the Italians had in getting rid of those illegal migrants?

[Ian]

Yep. If you read the entire Wiki article to which I linked you will see it wasn't quite as straightforward as you imagine.  It all stemmed (so it was claimed) from the collapse of communism across the Eastern bloc; food supplies and water supplies were both failing so this mass emigration was possibly unavoidable.

What all this illustrates is how fine a knife edge modern culture inhabits. We complain about boats crossing the channel yet you have to wonder about just how desperate the situation is for the emigrants. And this isn't new; it's been happening for at least the last 35 years, and it's not going to improve any time soon.

[Hugo]

Everything you have said is true Ian,  but the UK cannot take on the world's problems alone.    We do need immigration, but we should be allowed to select who exactly we want to come here
Why do the migrants come over to the UK in small boats when they have crossed through several safe and wealthy countries to come here?     What is so special about the UK that attracts these people here,   they have a different culture, don't integrate and generally hate the West

[Hugo]

Urgent review ordered into asylum seeker taxi costs
The home secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis to transfer asylum seekers from their hotels to appointments.

The move by Shabana Mahmood follows a BBC investigation that found some migrants having to travel long distances on journeys costing hundreds of pounds.

One asylum seeker told the BBC he had taken a 250-mile journey to visit a GP, with the driver telling him the cost to the Home Office was £600.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j3regpdno

[Hugo]

Every GP practice now has to offer online booking

From today, every GP practice in England will have to offer online appointment bookings throughout the day.

The move, ordered by the government, is aimed at reducing the so-called '8am scramble' to get through to practices on the phone.

Surgeries will have to provide the service from 08:00 to 18:30 Monday to Friday.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjed4qvzjeyo