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Things Calais Migrants Say To The Cameras & Journos
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Rather than one thread on each, I thought a compendium thread would prevent clutter. Examples so far:-
"I am a bio-engineer" (Egyptian; presumably left his certificates at home. I would like to be a bio-engineer myself. Can I just walk to SE England and claim to be one, too?
"My wife and children will be in trouble if my face is seen" (East African with back of head to camera. Claims to be a dissident).
"God wants us to be here" (African. Country of origin not stated. BBC coverage 31/07/15)
"…because I speak English, no French" (paragraph of mostly broken English). No real hardship to start any other European language from scratch, given the basic attainment achieved with English, so far. Half the planet has command of rudimentary English. This should not have any weight as a criterion upon which to base choice of country of settlement.
So, what migrant quote caught your attention? Please mention what TV channel your quote was gleaned from. Normal news links also welcomed.
"I am a bio-engineer" (Egyptian; presumably left his certificates at home. I would like to be a bio-engineer myself. Can I just walk to SE England and claim to be one, too?
"My wife and children will be in trouble if my face is seen" (East African with back of head to camera. Claims to be a dissident).
"God wants us to be here" (African. Country of origin not stated. BBC coverage 31/07/15)
"…because I speak English, no French" (paragraph of mostly broken English). No real hardship to start any other European language from scratch, given the basic attainment achieved with English, so far. Half the planet has command of rudimentary English. This should not have any weight as a criterion upon which to base choice of country of settlement.
So, what migrant quote caught your attention? Please mention what TV channel your quote was gleaned from. Normal news links also welcomed.
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//Just because someone wants an 'easy life' does not mean they are 'scum of the earth.// no. but just because they are "desperate" doesn't excuse criminal acts. these human beings force their way into trucks causing hundreds of pounds of damage. they then clamber all over the loads inside, contaminatin
11:58 Sat 01st Aug 2015
These are human beings. Now I realise,by reading some replies, how Hitler managed to rise to power with the Nazi party. Some of you lot should read your replies again then ask yourself 'am I racist?' I think something needs to be done but there is no need for these middle class pompous degrading remarks . There are plenty of places I would like to go 'for an easy life' and maybe will when I retire. Just because someone wants an 'easy life' does not mean they are 'scum of the earth.
//Just because someone wants an 'easy life' does not mean they are 'scum of the earth.//
no. but just because they are "desperate" doesn't excuse criminal acts. these human beings force their way into trucks causing hundreds of pounds of damage. they then clamber all over the loads inside, contaminating and ruining them, costing many hundreds more, possibly thousands.
no. but just because they are "desperate" doesn't excuse criminal acts. these human beings force their way into trucks causing hundreds of pounds of damage. they then clamber all over the loads inside, contaminating and ruining them, costing many hundreds more, possibly thousands.
They're not desperate. They may have been when they left home but there's no hot pursuit across Europe, there's no manhunt, no packs of slavering killer dogs to be set on them, no fatwahs, nothing.
They want money for nothing, whether from the state or from working on the side. Either way they're not needed, we can grow our own parasites thank you.
And goodbye.
They want money for nothing, whether from the state or from working on the side. Either way they're not needed, we can grow our own parasites thank you.
And goodbye.
Retrochic
Oh dear out come the history books once again, so as to tag the NAZI label and the RACIST label on those who care for their country.
You say "There are plenty of places I would like to go 'for an easy life' and maybe will when I retire".
Why not go now if you find it such a hard life in this country?
/// There are plenty of white born in UK people who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer. ///
Why only 'WHITE' born? Now who is being racist now.
Oh dear out come the history books once again, so as to tag the NAZI label and the RACIST label on those who care for their country.
You say "There are plenty of places I would like to go 'for an easy life' and maybe will when I retire".
Why not go now if you find it such a hard life in this country?
/// There are plenty of white born in UK people who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer. ///
Why only 'WHITE' born? Now who is being racist now.
One said last week on Sky news, that he wants to live here because he will get free medicine, and be looked after in a nice big house when he gets old!
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We kept out the Germans from invading the UK in the 2nd World War, yet we cant keep out a couple of thousand unarmed migrants!!!!! What a joke.
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We kept out the Germans from invading the UK in the 2nd World War, yet we cant keep out a couple of thousand unarmed migrants!!!!! What a joke.
Cameron says he is getting tough, by supplying the French with more fencing and sniffer dogs.
Get real Mr Cameron, make it electrified fencing and the dogs either Dobermans or Pit Bulls.
And on this side of the Channel, arm the police and the Army with strong wooden batons, when captured chain them together until they can be interned in Prison Camps, until we have enough to sail them back to France.
That's getting tough.
Get real Mr Cameron, make it electrified fencing and the dogs either Dobermans or Pit Bulls.
And on this side of the Channel, arm the police and the Army with strong wooden batons, when captured chain them together until they can be interned in Prison Camps, until we have enough to sail them back to France.
That's getting tough.
ummmm
/// No...not in the context of her post. ///
And what context would you say that was?
Why did she chose to put a colour to those people born in the UK who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer?
Are there not also black people in the UK who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer?
I think you would have had a much different slant on what was said, if such as I had said similar.
Is Retrochic, some relative of yours?
/// No...not in the context of her post. ///
And what context would you say that was?
Why did she chose to put a colour to those people born in the UK who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer?
Are there not also black people in the UK who already have 'an easy life' at the expense of the tax payer?
I think you would have had a much different slant on what was said, if such as I had said similar.
Is Retrochic, some relative of yours?
AOG for goodness sake leave go of that rag you are pulling at like a demented terrier. You know very well what I meant regarding UK citizens taking benefits,have they cancelled the Cricket or something?. The UK is ok except for dinosaurs like yourself that would prefer the UK pre war where everyone knew their place. I don't agree with the methods which the 'immigrants ' are using to try and enter the UK but they are human beings, someones son someones dad, and the way some are talking on here they would talk about and treat animals with more respect.
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