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| UK refuses to help North African migrants adrift in the Med |
| 2014-10-30 |
| [Mail] Ministers are withdrawing support for rescue operations that save thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, amid fears traffickers use them as a ‘taxi service’. In the past year around 150,000 people making the treacherous crossing from North Africa, many in ramshackle boats, have been picked up by the Italian navy. But Britain, along with other EU countries, is refusing to pay for further rescue missions due to concerns they encourage more migrants to attempt the journey. The decision by ministers provoked outrage from refugee groups who said it would lead to more people ‘needlessly and shamefully dying on Europe’s doorstep’. Appears it's a.... them or us scenario. But British officials insist the huge rescue operation has led to more attempted crossings and put more lives at risk – as traffickers try the journey in less seaworthy crafts. Several thousand people have died attempting to make the crossing in the past 12 months. Of those who survived, many have headed north to Calais and tried to get in to Britain. Pardon the tired cliché, but what you subsidize, you get more of. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 >But British officials insist the huge rescue operation has led to more attempted crossings and put more lives at risk Now apply the same logic to the "welfare" state's failure rewards. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-30 17:22 |
| #3 No good deed goes unpunished. |
| Posted by: Anice Nim 2014-10-30 15:51 |
| #2 corrupt "me first, my family/clan/tribe first" Yeah, the current administration has set a good example. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-30 10:33 |
| #1 good. stop helping, send them back and eventually they'll stop coming people should stop making excuses, mostly they are fleeing poverty not war. The cure for poverty is for those same energetic, enterprising people to put their talents to hard work reforming their leadership so it isn't corrupt "me first, my family/clan/tribe first" attitude. Start putting morals and ethics first, civic society first. Then they can have a functioning country they won't want to leave. |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-10-30 01:33 |