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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
We've been really good with Hong Kongers which shows we can devise practical solutions when we need to.
We're making an utter pig's ear of Ukranian visas and putting traumatised people through another stressful ordeal.
It's a stain on the country's reputation.
We have the jobs - over 600k full-time vacancies on Indeed.co.uk, the space (1m EU nationals left during lockdown) and the wealth (5th/6th wealthiest country) so there's no excuse for us not to take our fair share of refugees.
I hope Patel has a Road to Damascus moment, as she seems unsackable.
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I nearly pointed out that if they couldn’t bring themselves to act in a humanitarian capacity they might at least see an opportunity to address the national labour shortage … but I didn’t want to seem mercenary. It’s really hard to know what to think about all this.