Sadiq Khan just asked if he would take in Ukraine refugees and his reply was “NO,I do not have the space and it would be a security issue!”#weasel #gmb #goodmorningbritain pic.twitter.com/4J4f9ziYv8
— TheCommonSense (@CommonSenceUK) March 14, 2022
This morning.
Hmm.
Meanwhile…
More than 20,000 offers to provide accommodation to Ukrainian refugees have been made, the Irish Independent understands.
There have been over 15,000 offers made through the Government’s pledge portal which includes spare rooms and vacant second homes.
However, a further 5,000 housing offers have been made through other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), bringing the total to over 20,000 offers.
The Red Cross will begin contacting “small numbers” of people who have made some of the 15,000 pledges this week to start the process of housing incoming refugees.
Fiche míle fáilte – More than 20,000 offers of accommodation for fleeing Ukrainians (Independent.ie)
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Meanwhile…
Of course not, Saj… and here's us plebs just swimming about in free time all day – how else would we fill it?? Honestly – these people!! pic.twitter.com/Z7MjInGyqd
— Neil Ferguson's Calculator™ 🇨🇳 (@ProfessorFerg8) March 14, 2022
Haha, snared him rotten Nick, nice one mate.
Blighty has sent its 8th flight full of medical supplies and other vital equipment to Ukraine.
Coming the other way have been 21 very ill Ukrainian children with cancer who have landed safely in UK to ensure they get life-saving care from the NHS in safety.
So a multi-pronged approach to helping Ukrainians with Boris taking an early stand on NLAWs and sophisticated anti-aircraft weaponry being sent to Ukraine and the Saj co-odinating the humanitarian effort.
Marvellous™
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Yeah, the weaponry is all being piled up in western Ukraine, for some reason transporting it into the war zone is problematic. If only a small amount of it made its way in there, it could prolong an unwinnable war & inch us ever-nearer to Armageddon.
Still, at least Johnson has found a role he’s good at, being an arms dealer. The UK, which is a top arms supplier, is now helping people in at least two war zones, Ukraine & Yemen, such charidee, Bob Geldof would be proud.
FFS the difference between sytsemic and individulaistic responses is vast. Khan has used his position to systemically help thousands, and they’re asking why he isn’t individually helping one.
The question is a fair one when taken at face value.
No-one is obliged to take in refugees from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine but those asking that people do should in turn be prepared to ask if they intend to.
How you might judge their answer to that question is up to the individual, I’d make the same distinction you do and move on with my day. Others might see it as a chance to score points in an imaginary game while real, innocent people are being blown to bits.
There are absolute head cases out there convinced that they’ll be forced to house a family of refugees in their box room if they fill out the census form.
Yeah, a couple of years ago there were people who knew that the government would never shut down the economy & try to coerce people to undergo a toxic medical treatment that didn’t work, while pretending there was a worldwide pandemic.
For decades, people knew that politicians acted on behalf of & for the benefit of the people of their country.
After the insanity of the last two years, there’s little excuse for a logical fallacy like the Appeal to Tradition, because something has never been done before provides no guarantee that it won’t be done now. All bets are off. The West doesn’t do common sense, any more, it’s currently trying to end a war by supplying arms to the losing side.
“They wouldn’t do that” is about as hilariously dumb as Normiedom gets.
Congrats.
I’m not sure who you’re addressing with most of that but would the purpose of proxy wars like this be to bleed your enemy with an actual victory being a nicety rather than a necessity ?
While allowing for the fog of war and propaganda on all sides, the Russian army has maybe taken a reputational hit, thanks in part to Western military aid and moreso the courage and tenacity of Ukraine’s defenders.
A rather long winded way of saying Russia’s army is starting to look rather s**t.
Because you’ve only ever seen America’s military in action, you have a distorted idea of actual war, when one military takes on another, without flattening the country for months in advance. The Russians don’t want to have to rebuild Ukraine, like the US attempted & failed to do, in Iraq, neither do they want to create a deadly ongoing problem with a Ukrainian Nazi version of ISIS. I doubt if the outcome of this will be multiple terrorist attacks in Europe, either, as happened after Iraq.
Our political system has been feminised, to the point where gossiping & destroying the reputation of your enemy is seen as some sort of victory.
Obviously, the Russian military is not a gigantic Killing Machine like America’s, either.
ah hear …sexist much
He’ll be curled up crying in the shower later, skin rubbed red raw from trying to wash off the ‘cooties’ he got from making accidental eye contact with a woman down the shops.
Nah mate, they’re proper sh*te.
Having just escaped the lunatic machinations of their coke-head fake president, it would be an act of unacceptable cruelty to house these poor Ukrainians with Khan. That would definitely be a security issue.