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Child Refugees?
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Annx | Report | 19 Oct 2016 20:02 |
Providing something like free english lessons doesn't mean they will be taken up by everyone. You have to consider 'culture'. I have seen many cases over the years where the wife was either not allowed or not encouraged to learn english despite being in this country many years and despite her children all speaking english. This way the man controlled all the finances, even those that were rightly hers. We already deal with 26 languages in the city schools near me. |
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Denburybob | Report | 19 Oct 2016 19:55 |
Blimey, I go away for another week, (Spain, thanks for asking), and look what I come home to. Rollo talking the usual -... --- .-.. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... I sometimes think that he has no great love for the English, Or even the British. |
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Dermot | Report | 19 Oct 2016 19:45 |
People emigrate because of political problems, plus there is a better chance of finding work abroad & will often return home when there is an improvement there. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 19 Oct 2016 19:20 |
To say the refugees live in a state of extreme poverty and overcrowding is a bit sweeping. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 19 Oct 2016 18:36 |
I don't believe the UK presents an unfriendly face any more than France or Turkey and as much as T May is reported as having said we did so, she did not say that the UK was the only one to do so. She is careful with her presentation of words. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 19 Oct 2016 16:39 |
More than two-thirds of refugees who had their ages assessed after claiming to be children were found to be over the age of 18, Home Office figures reveal. Official government data shows that from the year ending in June, 1,060 asylum applicants' ages were called into question, 933 of whom underwent age assessment tests with 636 (68%) deemed to be over 18. |
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supercrutch | Report | 19 Oct 2016 16:32 |
Just to add before I go for my senile nap: I like and respect Mrs May :-) |
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Dermot | Report | 19 Oct 2016 16:26 |
Unfriendly? Wins hands down! |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 19 Oct 2016 16:20 |
There are around 100 000 bona fide refugees in the UK a state with a population of 60 million. that is 0.016 of the population. It is absurd to say they exert pressure on public services etc etc. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 19 Oct 2016 15:41 |
Just caught your post before I go Dermot. |
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supercrutch | Report | 19 Oct 2016 15:41 |
Dermot.. you said: |
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Dermot | Report | 19 Oct 2016 15:32 |
Getting to grips with the English language (or Welsh/Scottish Gaelic) is not easily achieved by, for example, attending evening classes alone. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 19 Oct 2016 15:26 |
I have just read how dental checks and x-rays are difficult to gauge precisely because they could give a reading of two years either side of a certain age. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 19 Oct 2016 15:01 |
I don't think it is expected that refugees speak English, Rollo. I do think it is illogical for them not to learn the language of the country they want to settle in though and I do think that language classes in schools in the evenings are desirable if one really wants to settle. It gets easier for second and third generations too because they go through an education system in the language of the country. It is ludicrous to try to teach children without them first having been taught the language so that ought to be the priority - not an interpreter in every classroom. |
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supercrutch | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:57 |
*sigh* I do wish people wouldn't make assumptions. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:52 |
wunderbar |
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magpie | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:47 |
Honestly Rollo, you talk complete rubbish, so much so that I wouldn't know where to begin so I'm bailing out of this conversation! Unbelievable nonsense! |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:35 |
The UK is obliged to accept refugees regardless of their race, religion, color or the language they speak. This applies to the old and the young alike. Of course such obligations are fine words but less popular with countries that have done a great deal to provoke untold misery in the Middle East and then just walk away. In T May's case she has tried hard to get the UN to reduce the rights of refugees but without success. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:33 |
Dermot, I speak as one who has a family member who teaches three languages not as someone who has a grudge against interpreters. I would pay for my own if I lived in a country whose language I had no knowledge of. I have friends who live overseas and who do that. |
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Dermot | Report | 19 Oct 2016 14:13 |
Interpreters deserve a job just as much as everyone else. |