Peter Hitchens hits the nail on the head

[d000hg]

Then why don't those people take a trip over to Southall or Reading or Slough and take in a migrant that's living in a shed. Or even better, a homeless person?

How do you know they haven't? I know two households who do this kind of thing - one has taken in homeless people and the other provides short-term care for foster children, a few days at a time.

But that's too scary and/or disruptive for the vast majority, myself included, as well as being quite a high-risk way of helping. Better to fund people who know what they're doing and have the experience and facilities needed to help more effectively.

[MarillionFan]

But that's too scary and/or disruptive for the vast majority, myself included, as well as being quite a high-risk way of helping. Better to fund people who know what they're doing and have the experience and facilities needed to help more effectively.

So that you can sleep a little better because you have a clear conscience.

I luckily don't have a conscience, so I say feck 'em all and send them back. There's no room at the Inn and you're definitely not having the stable.

[d000hg]

So that you can sleep a little better because you have a clear conscience.

No, because helping people is a good thing to do.

[meridian]

How do you know they haven't? I know two households who do this kind of thing - one has taken in homeless people and the other provides short-term care for foster children, a few days at a time.

But that's too scary and/or disruptive for the vast majority, myself included, as well as being quite a high-risk way of helping. Better to fund people who know what they're doing and have the experience and facilities needed to help more effectively.

Fostering children is admirable, but my post was directed to another poster who claimed that there were thousands of people who would take in people and provide for them.

You, on the other hand, find this risky and are only prepared to fund people who know what they are doing. So you agree with the government response of sending overseas aid to Jordan then, and not taking in people...

(By the way, that's called "giving to charity", and you'll find that many of us do that anyway, you don't have a monopoly on it)

[vetran]

Funnily I don't always believe what people tell me

Victim of the lying Major: TA girl fell for serial fantasist who said he'd been an Army medic, a fighter pilot and a psychiatrist | Daily Mail Online

What the court did not hear was that 'Major' Colclough - who in fact has earned six figure salaries in finance in the City of London - is a serial fantasist who once briefly obtained a job at a university in Prague by claiming to be a professor and friend of Stephen Hawking.

Alright Major!