I rather like Katie Hopkins

[vetran]

the sensible thing would have been to process the under 12s & single women as priority. They strike me as the at risk ones.

Sorry those chaps look late teens early 20s to me. None of my Daughters classmates look that old.

[SueEllen]

She suffers from Epilepsy. I believe it stopped her from passing out as an officer of Sandhurst. Like or not our systems are based on fair play and treated with contempt as a result. We most certainly should not be taking unknown humans into a protection program just to look nice for the media.

You should probably consider that a man passing off as a child will be placed with other children. We owe everyone a duty of care and saying oh its a bit hard to figure this out lets guess is not the right way to do it.

The problem is you cannot conclusively prove someone's age once they become a teenager especially when they are lying about a couple of years.

[northernladuk]

The problem is you cannot conclusively prove someone's age once they become a teenager especially when they are lying about a couple of years.

Indeed but there have been plenty of instances where we are talking 5 or 10 years plus. You know they will try it.

But really that's a secondary argument. If they got it right as Veteran said and sorted out the children and women then we wouldn't need this argument. When I heard about this in the news I imagined it would be an equal mix of gender of little people that really at risk. Not 6ft late teens who are questionable at best.

[DodgyAgent]

Saying incredibly racist, xenophobic and bigoted things is hardly difficult.

such as?

[Chuck]

the sensible thing would have been to process the under 12s & single women as priority.

From the television pictures I've seen, there are very few women in the Jungle, it's mostly single men. Brave souls who've run away from their countries, across countless safe European countries, to come here.

Thanks goodness the young men of the 1930s and 40s didn't have, or choose, that option in this country.

[SueEllen]

Indeed but there have been plenty of instances where we are talking 5 or 10 years plus. You know they will try it.

Of course but the fact that people of other ethnicities do get away with it as they look younger due to a mixture of being malnourished and genes means they will try as well.

But really that's a secondary argument. If they got it right as Veteran said and sorted out the children and women then we wouldn't need this argument. When I heard about this in the news I imagined it would be an equal mix of gender of little people that really at risk. Not 6ft late teens who are questionable at best.

The problem is the UK took ages to do anything. If the government acted quicker then they could have dealt with the children under 14 first.

[SueEllen]

From the television pictures I've seen, there are very few women in the Jungle, it's mostly single men. Brave souls who've run away from their countries, across countless safe European countries, to come here.

Thanks goodness the young men of the 1930s and 40s didn't have, or choose, that option in this country.

That is a stupid argument.

Are you saying all the Jewish teenage boys and men who fled in the 1930s should have stayed to be starved, tortured and gassed?

[Chuck]

That is a stupid argument.

Are you saying all the Jewish teenage boys and men who fled in the 1930s should have stayed to be starved, tortured and gassed?

Of course not. There was a concerted effort to round up that entire race, regardless of health, age or sex, and destroy them. There are still people, even in this country, who believe they deserve(d) it.

The current "refugees" are a disparate bunch, from trouble spots all over the globe. It is not a valid comparison.

[vetran]

The current "refugees" are a disparate bunch, from poor spots all over the globe. It is not a valid comparison.

Sorry I suspect there is a significant amounts of economic migration involved.

As has been seen before many of the 'refugees' given leave to remain pop back to their war torn home countries for holidays.

[shaunbhoy]

Of course not. There was a concerted effort to round up that entire race, regardless of health, age or sex, and destroy them. There are still Labour Party Members, even in this country, who believe they deserve(d) it.

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