"What Starmer should say is that asylum seekers are not merely an administrative processing concern, but a human rights one. That the UK has obligations, and moreover, values and convictions, that necessitate looking fairly and humanely upon the resettlement needs of those fleeing war, persecution and the devastation of their countries.
He will not, because, well, in the U.K. it feels like heresy just to have typed the above."
Nesrine Malik
"This is Britain. We don’t live in Gotham City, waiting for a mayor to clean the streets of villains. We are not just atomised individuals running our own public limited companies, but part of something bigger, part of a nation that has miraculously expanded, absorbed and assimilated people from all over the world, one that has manifested the best and most natural of human impulses – to get along and make a common home."
Nesrine Malik
The 'British' should read every last word of this by Nesrine Malik, Including and especially Keir Starmer. We need the truth to be told about immigration. The real truth.
"The real truth is that Britain is a nation that has miraculously expanded, absorbed and assimilated people from all over the world, one that has manifested the best and most natural of human impulses – to get along and make a common home."
The other inconvenient truth about immigration to the U.K.
It puts a strain on public services. We need more housing, health and education.
It's just a numbers thing. It's nobody's fault, certainly not the immigrants. It's the government's job to manage the increase and make sure there is enough to go round. It's the hard work they need to be doing.
It's their failures that leave the rest of us blaming each other.
Why don't they tell us this truth?
@ProjectFearlessness well I’m afraid I still think you’re playing with fire. “No room in this country” is the siren call of the extreme right and it’s what gets people out on the street to protest against Immigration.
The inadequacy of the school size was not caused by the nationality of the pupils but by the lack of provision, and including their national origin in the description merely feeds xenophobia.
I refuse to be drawn into an ad-hom discussion .
Our local #NHS hospital organised coffee mornings free for all staff and volunteers as a gesture of - I can’t think of a better word - ‘solidarity’ after the unpleasantness of the riots.
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