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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 18 Sep 2015 19:36

Bournemouth knew that is was going to happen months ago. The countries currently effected didn't realise the scale.

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Lynda ~

Lynda ~ Report 18 Sep 2015 20:02

About 10 years ago, there were many refugees, who came to Kent via Dover, I used to see many on the motorways surrounding us. I used to assist the Police with them, and for a while it was a daily occurrence.

But you cannot compare the volume of refugees we saw to what is happening over Europe now.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 18 Sep 2015 20:04

"The countries currently effected didn't realise the scale. "

Of course they did this sort of thing has happened again and again in eastern Europe and the near middle east over the last hundred years and several times in living memory most recently during the break up of FRYU.

Kosovo? Srebenica?

The excuse then was variations on don't know, won't know, was made to know. Hundreds of thousands died all the same while "leaders" in Europe ponced around before the Americans (as usual) sorted it out. It is the US which will have to come and sort out a mess largely of European making this time too.

Then there is the fairly well known Hungary uprising in 1956, the forced emigration of Germans from the Sudetenland and Poland in 1945-8, the Armenia massacre, the forced emigration of Turks and Greeks in 1923, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Greek civil war 1948, Russian forced deportations from Crimea and Ukraine 1945-52, Palestine forced emigration 1945-now, Trieste 1946, German flight from under the guns of the Red Army 1945. None of it very nice and mostly ignored in countries far far away of which they knew nothing.

It is not the job of the leaders of democracies to do what the electorate thinks it wants. Their job is to lead (F D Roosevelt).

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Guinevere

Guinevere Report 19 Sep 2015 17:40

Some good news for a change.

http://www.lolwot.com/refugee-who-was-tripped-by-camerawomen-lands-job-in-spain/

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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 19 Sep 2015 17:58

but the reality is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06chhnr/newsnight-18092015

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supercrutch

supercrutch Report 19 Sep 2015 21:47

and meantime nobody is reporting on the Yemen :-| :-|

the photographs in today are just bloody awful.......

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Dermot

Dermot Report 20 Sep 2015 12:15

Inhuman!

Pain feels sharper when inflicted by their own kind.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 20 Sep 2015 13:28

"It is the US which will have to come and sort out a mess ...etc"

Will it wait for a couple of years as usual?

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