Whilst some MPs exploit fabricated stories of asylum seekers being marked for persecution in order to promote their hard left agenda others are more interested in finding the truth.
Remember the furore about the asylum seekers marked out for persecution by having red doors to their homes?….seems all is not so clear cut…or rather it is…..if a rabble of MPs can find this out why not the enormously resourced BBC?
From The Spectator:
The whole purpose of parliamentary select committees was supposed to be to help inform policy-making. Instead, they have sunk to becoming rather vulgar kangaroo courts used by wannabe barristers of the backbenchers to boost their egos. It took about five minutes at today’s session of the Commons Home Affairs Committee to establish that neither G4S nor Jomast (the landlord which provides properties in Middlesbrough for the housing of asylum-seekers) have a policy of deliberately painting front doors red in order to help identify the occupants as asylum-seekers. Only 59 per cent of properties in the town occupied by asylum-seekers are red, it turns out. Moreover, the doors have been painted red for 20 years – long before they were used to house asylum-seekers.
Still, that doesn’t stop the sorry sagas of the red doors and the red armbands entering Left-wing hall of infamy as they weave their tales of the terrible lives asylum seekers live in this country…..Marr was quick to mention the armband nonsense as an example of our attitude towards migrants as he trailed his programme on immigration yesterday.
The Home Affairs Committee hasn’t published the findings yet.
Red doors and red armband ‘outrage’? Just examples of migrant ‘lawfare’ and the agitprop of the ‘charity’ migration industry and Left-wing anarchists.
I am just listening to the 10pm news on BBC1 and again the comparison of the present day asylum seekers with the Jews of 1939 re the Danes relieving the migrants of their assets. In 1939 people had to act as guarantors for the migrants putting up a £50 bond is about a year’s salary so equivalent of £20,000. But newly arrived Jews were not allowed to work and were not allowed to be a drain on the State. What assets are these Syrians bringing with them to Denmark? And if they are expecting the state to feed house and clothe them, why is it not unreasonable for them to contribute what they can? It is not the Jews of 1939 but the Beeb uses it at every opportunity.
It was the very first item. Edwards, that man for whom the term prissy and sanctimonius might have been invented, could not disguise his apparent disgust with the Danes. Typical of the modern virtue signaller and very offensive.
There is no comparison with the Jews in the Nazi era and this attempt by the BBC to make one is deeply flawed as well as disgusting. No asylum seeker in Denmark is any danger at all and the BBC knows it. Rarely does the mask fall off so obviously and the BBC’s profound hatred of our way of life show itself so clearly. Who are these people?
No wonder they hate Donald Trump so much . He is their worst nightmare
Deborah
I am 95%+ sure what you say is true. I heard it separately in the context of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kinder Transport. He had to find families willing to put up £50 to take a child and when he had enough he could lay on the trains. £50 was a lot of money but the ‘rich, middle class Tories’ didn’t mind.
The children concerned were of course facing extermination, which is what happened to many of their families.
For the biased BBC to equate red doors and wristbands with that is absolutely disgusting.
I don’t really see why the non-story of the red doors and the armbands are even worthy of being reported at all. Comparisons with the Holocaust are obscene.
As I said on another thread,I lived in social housing for years ,I had no choice about the colour my front door was painted. It irritated me ,but at least I had a roof over my head .I worked hard and eventually got my own place.
It’s manufactured outrage and deflects from the really important discussion about immigration and the collapse of the infrastructure in the UK. Much easier to bash a hated private company .
Every time I hear a programme about lack of housing or school places I’m practically screaming at the radio what about the sheer numbers of people who are here and still arriving .How can you plan if we don’t know how many people are going to be in the country?
There was a short item yesterday on the local Beeb news about the proliferation of “beds in sheds”.The tone was about the poor exploited people forced to live in them ,no mention of it being a symptom of uncontrolled immigration and people trafficking.
I take my hat off to you who still listen to the Today programme. My BP just won’t stand it.
I remember first hearing the comparison of the Danes to the Nazis about two weeks ago on Radio 4 and thinking that this imagined parallel is going to ruffle A LOT of Jewish feathers. I didn’t know it had spread to BBC 1. Of course it’s absolutely ridiculous, and there’s no need for anyone in this comments section to spell out the obvious differences between the living Hell in the ’30s and the resigned pragmatism of the Folketing.
But I suspect the comparison is there to pull the tail of the swine, much like how many of us are getting our tails pulled so that we’ll go forward in a way they couldn’t merely push us.
At least just after 5pm yesterday the PM programme did contain the comment that the Danes were only asking the gimmigrants to do what the Danes themselves have to do in order to get the dole; give up assets over £1,000, to the state.. The Danes are only establishing a level playing field for all.
Talk about , the Jews & the holocaust by the Evil BBC, is clutching at straws anyhow. The BBC hate Jews , & probably wish the “Final Solution” had run its full course at the time. The only exception would be hard left Jews, who the BBC would want spared, being of the same mindset as themselves. Eg Danny Coen & others.
And then hopefully someone will get Holocaust survivor Ruth Barnett to reel her neck in.
https://www.rt.com/uk/330158-holocaust-kindertransport-refugee-calais/
Agreed. But, did you see those comments on the link? Frightening that so many neo-nazis still exist, which explains the attraction to the Hopeless and Hateful group. No doubt the neo-nazis on that site would agree with the H&H views.
I didn’t read the comments. After plenty of time spent trying to make something of, or take something useful from, the comment sections on RT, I’ve given up before it drives me mad.
DDDD
A nice try to do exactly what your pseudonym suggests.
Epic fail.
The RT headline states “holocaust EVACUEE”. Someone who was moved out of harms way.
Explanation please.
BBC delenda est:
“The RT headline states “holocaust EVACUEE”. Someone who was moved out of harms way.
Explanation please.”
Seriously? I should have put ‘evacuee’, then. I’m deeply, deeply sorry. A semantic quibble of no importance, since it is the Holocaust itself that is being used to inflate another, incomparable situation.
And please, disabuse yourself of the notion that my username is a statement of my intentions on this website. It’s merely a dig at those who work by the motto in shady corridors.
Oy vey!
DDDD
Thank you.
“Seriously?” So you did not verify this!
My pseudonym does reflect my intentions.
I look forward to many future contributions from you which demonstrate your devotion to the cause.
My pleasure. Your pseudonym may well reflect my intentions, too, but bearing Machiavelli’s (or was it Livy’s?) advise in mind – that Employing Deceit in Waging a War is a Glorious Thing – I may only be interested in helping the Corporation go from strength to strength.
Apologies for the rhetorical…um….exclamation of my frustration. I’m sure you can sympathise. 😉
Trying to make a comparison between the treatment of Jews in the 1930s fleeing for their lives and this tsunami of mostly economic migrants is sickening. But rather than compare, why not contrast? For instance, did newly arrived Jewish emigres go round in groups molesting and raping women? Did they burn down their accommodation? Did they go on the rampage because they didn’t get what they wanted? Did they murder those trying to help them? Did they ask for special treatment? Did the citizens of this country have to change their ways so as not to “offend” the new arrivals? No, no, no, no, no, no. Those who came were real refugees, were grateful to have found a safe haven, they buckled down and got on with life and put up with any short term inconveniences and hardships and yes, sometimes prejudice as well. They quickly settled in, integrated and contributed to the country. That is what genuine refugees do, but it is not what colonists do.