When Are The People In Power Going To Sit Up And Listen To What The Man In The Street Has Been Telling Them All Along?

[anotheoldgit]

/// A 29-year-old is among the hundreds of adult asylum-seekers in Britain who lied to officials and posed as children, according to newly released official figures. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4078702/Those-man-child-migrants-old-29-Hundreds-adult-asylum-seekers-lied-age-order-enter-Britain.html

/// Angela Merkel has told German citizens that the biggest challenge the country is facing is from Islamist terrorism. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4078116/Terrorism-greatest-threat-Germany-says-Angela-Merkel-months-letting-million-Middle-Eastern-migrants-country.html

[Mamyalynne]

Specific? As in a name?

I don't see why that matters - they joined, they posted one rude post, they are banned.

[ToraToraTora]

he/she did make some very good points though.

[donny48]

Mamyalynne,
On a lighter note , since participating in an exchange with yourself and others yesterday then no matter how serious you are being I look at your avatar and I cannot see the elbows I always saw before.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

Even if they joined only today they were still part of the AB family, and should be named and shamed if necessary.

[Mamyalynne]

:-)

[Mamyalynne]

Currently being beaten with feather boas and tinsel round the bike sheds.

[Mamyalynne]

AOG, whilst I'm quite sure someone else will tell you the name they used , and that too may get pulled - if you need to know who was banned contact the AB Editor using the 'Contact us' facility at the bottom of the page.

Not sure how that response will go down but you could try.

[Islay]

hereIam, you do not know me and I don't need to defend myself to you.

[ladybirder]

Don't we all form opinions about each other, even subconsciously, by what we have to say and the way we say it whether we know each other or not?

[Togo]

//hereIam, you do not know me //

Perhaps an opinion was "formed" based on previous posts?

[douglas9401]

We do, ladybirder, whether we admit it even to ourselves.

I now tend to wait a while these days and see if the mask slips at all.

[ladybirder]

Very wise Douglas;-)

[EDDIE51]

f-f to comply with your suggestion at 13.17 would mean lowering the international legally accepted maximum age for a 'child' to 10. Just not possible!

[Gromit]

// Those man-child migrants? Some were as old as 29 //

// social workers carried out 2,028 age tests between 2013-14 and 2015-16 //

The Daily Mail is using slight of hand trickery here. In the 3 years prior to the Calais 'child' migrants coming there was a case of a 29 year old. But that was BEFORE this year and BEFORE the Calais intake this Autumn. So to categorically state that those child migrants were up to 29 years old, is a lie. A previous 1 was, but not one of these.

[hereIam]

True Togo.

[Togo]

//social workers//

The two words that set the klaxon off. Trustworthy and competent? Not.

[Togo]

Wow Hereiam, are you psychic . :))

[Mamyalynne]

Undoubtedly we all form opinions of others, however it is quite easy to disagree with someone's views without nasty personal prodding.

A little thought before typing a reply is all that's needed.

[douglas9401]

There may be something in what you say, mamyalynne, but there's an onus on others not to (try to) provoke a reaction.