This is the post I really wanted to make about immigration

[nanila]

I'm a migrant. I came to the UK in search of new opportunities, a new job and a better life. I came on an aeroplane. I had a visa. And I was lucky enough to find all of those things.

A refugee is not a migrant. A refugee is someone who is so desperate they'll pay their life savings to put their toddler on a leaky boat in the sea on the slim chance they'll find safety somewhere else. Even the thought of having to do that to my children makes me physically ill. No one does that who is not at the absolute end of hope. No one.

It makes me ill that the British government's position is that it has been doing enough to help these people. Yes. By doing such helpful things as cancelling funding for the boat rescue service that could have prevented them from drowning. Very helpful. Because you don't have to offer asylum to corpses.

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[forthwritten]

I am all but speechless in the face of such grimness. How has it taken a photo of a dead child to actually get people to acknowledge refugees' humanity? In the very same newspapers that were calling for their boats to be torpedoed?

[cmcmck]

The very same- even down to some rank hypocrisy in the good old 'Daily Mail'..........

[nanila]

And the supposed commitment to help is STILL not being couched in concrete terms, financial or otherwise. There are no meaningful data attached.

Furious. Furious. FURIOUS.