OT perspective/ Ukraine/Russia

[Andy_Faber]

I meant, as you know...and as AF has actually already mentioned to you, that now is not the time for you to go off on yet another rant about other refugees/displaced people/migrants/rubber boaters coming across the Channel.

‘My beloved Guardian’, GP? You sound like your mate in disguise and I wasn’t aware that I was ‘moaning’...unless in your world ‘moaning’ and asking are the same thing.
Strangely exactly the same question I asked over breakfast this morning has just been asked again on Radio 5 - eight hours or more down the line.

I very much agree with the last eight words of you post...hopefully we’ll be able to step up and improve the situation asap...I appreciate the need for some degree of caution but, imo, we have to play our part and the last thing despairing refugees need is to be caught up in a web of bureaucracy and Patel’s pointless red tape.

Yes come on chaps, let’s focus on Ukraine/Russia, TTR you’ve made your point, some here agree some don’t but it’s getting in the way of proper discussion here.

[Trickytreesreds]

Yes come on chaps, let’s focus on Ukraine/Russia, TTR you’ve made your point, some here agree some don’t but it’s getting in the way of proper discussion here.

I have made my point Andy, but the truth of the matter is relevent now. Where are these Ukranians going to go?
Some have family here, which is obviously a bonus to get things moving.
But for those that don't, where do they go?
Social housing availability is poor, to say the least. The government is currently spending £5 M a day on hotel fees alone. The Judges decreed that ex army barracks weren't good enough for 18-30 singe men.
So where/what are we going with women and children, never mind the old?

It's a valid fair point and seeing as I want the Ukraine victims helped, it is something that needs to be explained.

[ramAnag]

I have made my point Andy, but the truth of the matter is relevent now. Where are these Ukranians going to go?
Some have family here, which is obviously a bonus to get things moving.
But for those that don't, where do they go?
Social housing availability is poor, to say the least. The government is currently spending £5 M a day on hotel fees alone. The Judges decreed that ex army barracks weren't good enough for 18-30 singe men.
So where/what are we going with women and children, never mind the old?

It's a valid fair point and seeing as I want the Ukraine victims helped, it is something that needs to be explained.

You obviously have a point...but what makes you think it’s any more of a problem for us than it is for those in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Moldova or any of the Western European countries? Frankly I watched the 6.00 o’clock news tonight and felt ashamed.