I'm hearing about all these local authorities offering to take in refugees. There was I thinking they couldn't cope with their current problems.
There are plenty of people including children, the elderly, sick and vulnerable living in squalor and being told their councils can't help but suddenly it appears they can help other people. Maybe they'll be accessing additional funding but where's that additional funding to get our own people out of squalor or off the streets? Don't they matter as much?
Anyway, I hope any 'care' vulnerable refugees children are placed into is a lot better than the sort of 'care' afforded to the thousands of vulnerable children these same people allowed to be abused under their noses for decades.
I'm glad Geldof is going to be housing a few migrants and hope all his rich holier than thou mates do likewise for a good long time, not just while it affords them the publicity they crave when it suits. Maybe they will arrange for some of their luxury pads, mansions and estates to be similarly put to such worthy use. Of course they wouldn't need to leave all their expensive personal trinkets lying around but they're wealthy enough to put them in safe storage for such an important cause so that's not insurmountable. Just a pity they didn't feel able to start a campaign to house some of the countless destitute they've passed by over the years on the way to/from one celebrity bash after another. I dare say they'd have been equally grateful but maybe they weren't sufficiently newsworthy to be worth the effort.
Anyway time will tell just how many people are really prepared to put their money where their mouth is. Maybe I'll be proved wrong and all those busily tweeting and signing petitions about how terrible all this is will actually do something practical to help. Maybe they won't soon be whining on about how services are further being cut to the bone due to yet another influx of migrants who'll be entirely dependent on welfare. Maybe they'll even stop complaining about their summer holidays or business trips repeatedly being delayed by other equally desperate migrants trying to get across the Channel. Let's hope so eh, but in the sudden effort to be more humanitarian let's not forget those who desperately need help and are already living amongst us.