(21 Apr 2015, 7:28 pm)Andreos1 wrote It is an EU problem though. Regardless of any UN conventions, as a member of the EU, we are supposed to play an active role, even though Lampedusa is the first port of call in the majority of cases.
A ship carrying Syrians crashed into Rhodes yesterday, with survivors swimming ashore.
They will have skirted the Turkish coast and passed Cyprus, just to get to Rhodes.
I saw that on the news, I feel sorry for these people, I really do, but there are plenty of 'safe' places before reaching the English Channel.
It seems to me that it is issues like that gives Big Nige and his Union of Knobs, Idiots and Ponces something to shite on about...
#justsaying