As to your throw away nonsense about Council Housing, I guess you have no idea what these folk go through do you?
As with all things in life, THEY HAVE A CHOICE.
Fleeing from France is not putting ones life in ones hands because they are being persecuted and thus they are then endangering others lives who have to try to rescue them,.
Its the bloody doogooders that were picking them up a mile or so off the coast of the likes of Libya then transporting them to Italy etc and doing the people smugglers work for them I blame.
I would have returned them straight to Libya, all that does is encourage people to attempt in even less seaworthy boats as they know they only have to reach a couple of miles out.
You don't pay these guys thousands to get dumped back at square one and then it will not take long for it to start to get around that you are wasting your cash.
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