Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

All credit to your mate but has it occurred to you that those dangers - high seas, seasickness, hypothermia and jellyfish - are the very same dangers faced by the poor, terrified and desperate people on the small inflatable boats?

I don’t think you’re so different. No reasonable person should have a problem with controlled legal immigration and no one actually supports the concept of illegal immigration. See, we agree!

The fact is though, that through little other than an accident of birth, you and I have never had to face such challenges and hostilities. I don’t think the arrivals are exactly ‘pandered to’ either, but until the ‘haves’ of this world accept greater internationally organised responsibility for the ‘have nots’ then the problem is unlikely to go away.

As regards your first para, the perils are not dissimilar, save that he isnt in a boat all the time. The difference I suppose is that he is raising money for charity whereas they are committing a crime.

I take your point re "accident of birth" and "humanitarian" but Im likely less tolerant of charitable than you. Come to the country legally and submit you papers for official asylum (yes I know its diffiicult) then I dont mind. Sneak in under cover of darkness, disappear into the grey economy (and those employers do need sanctioning for supporting that network) and sap the system then Im on the side of the jellyfish.

[MadAmster]

I take your point re "accident of birth"

That works when you assume that, had your parents lived elsewhere, they would have had seks at the same time as they did here, that the same sperm would have fertilised the same egg.... Had they lived elsewhere, the chances are great that you wouldn't exist.