- Re: Ask those who won't vote what powers they think will arise next 5 yrs. Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on November 21, 2019, 10:37 pm, in reply to "Ask those who won't vote what powers they think will arise next 5 yrs."
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I attended a talk today given by a woman who is half Greek. She was visiting her mother who lives in Samos. She found there a huge number of mainly Syrian refugees who had arrived via Turkey, mostly on foot overland and then across the mile wide strait to Samos by boat. She set to work with a friend to help these unfortunate people, mostly families with children, who had been accommodated by the UN and other agencies in run down disused hotels where there was no furniture and conditions were dreadful. She spent the year teaching the children who she loved, although without paper or writing implements she had to improvise. Friends here did send over some supplies. She said the men and women were very dejected and depressed and it was difficult to give them any motivation. The paperwork to give them the proper refugee status was difficult and was took an inordinately long time before they could move on. When I said that without the wars of Bush and Blair, and Cameron, these people would not have been bombed out of their homes and created refugees. There are 10 million refugees currently. Nobody else in the audience (mainly Tory voters I guessed) spoke out. Has Jeremy Corbyn waged any wars? No. |