Reply to: Peter Hitchens hits the nail on the head

[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!

[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)

[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.

[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]

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.

[meridian]

Believe it or not, there are thousands who are generous enough to allow someone to live with them and provide for them. Just because you are selfish and narrow minded, it does not mean everybody else in this country is similar.

This is why a socialist government is needed so we can get some compassion back in this country. Corbyn is really the only answer and he cannot have come up at a more appropriate time.

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?

Or is it only a Syrian that will ease your conscience and look better on Facebook?

[fullyautomatix]

Believe it or not, there are thousands who are generous enough to allow someone to live with them and provide for them. Just because you are selfish and narrow minded, it does not mean everybody else in this country is similar.

This is why a socialist government is needed so we can get some compassion back in this country. Corbyn is really the only answer and he cannot have come up at a more appropriate time.

[NickFitz]

It could have been worse, at least The Wurzels never went postal

Imagine the stocks of fertilizers they'd have, and that's after they could mow people down with their army of combine harvesters

Sixty-three acres that will be forever England, assuming the proposal was accepted

[MicrosoftBob]

A couple of hundred Paddies had the UK bricking itself in the 70's and early 80's, and that was just with a few hundred kilograms of fertiliser.

It could have been worse, at least The Wurzels never went postal

Imagine the stocks of fertilizers they'd have, and that's after they could mow people down with their army of combine harvesters

[meridian]

If a few thousand people, something like 2% of our annual immigration, will destroy out country then it's ruined already.

A couple of hundred Paddies had the UK bricking itself in the 70's and early 80's, and that was just with a few hundred kilograms of fertiliser.

[Platypus]

I read it, a day or two ago. It's always worth reading the views and opinions. Who knows, you might even change your mind or even learn something

[TestMangler]

If a few thousand people, something like 2% of our annual immigration, will destroy out country then it's ruined already.

I wouldn't take heroin-addict prostitutes, or abused damaged children, into my house but that doesn't mean I am hypocritical for thinking they should be cared for. That's part of what the government DOES with my tax money...

That's the first thing you've ever said that I agree with

[AtW]

I wouldn't take heroin-addict prostitutes, or abused damaged children, into my house but that doesn't mean I am hypocritical for thinking they should be cared for. That's part of what the government DOES with my tax money...

Would you be ok if it was cocaine-addict prostitutes?

[d000hg]

If a few thousand people, something like 2% of our annual immigration, will destroy out country then it's ruined already.

I wouldn't take heroin-addict prostitutes, or abused damaged children, into my house but that doesn't mean I am hypocritical for thinking they should be cared for. That's part of what the government DOES with my tax money...

[MicrosoftBob]

FFS leave them poor refugees alone

Instead help AtW buy a sofa.

FTY