If Surrey Was Syria

[whiskeryron]

http://www.independent.co.uk/video/?videoid=4446749208001

Watch video This really brings it home

[retrocop]

What a load of meaningless carp. I thought it was a film about Corbyn's first month as Labour Prime Minister and it portrayed a General Strike. Propaganda whatever way you look at it.

[whiskeryron]

Typical right wing Tory answer.

[Baldric]

Well, that's 2 + minutes of my Life wasted!

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry Ron it doesn't seem to bring anything home to me.

I can see nothing in the Video that compares with what is happening in Syria.

[Baldric]

Something similar was done about a year ago, that fell flat as well!

[retrocop]

//whiskeryron
Question Author
Typical right wing Tory answer.//

I can't disagree with that. What does it bring home to me?
Well as someone well over 55 I recall that we( Great Britain) were involved in a major World War with the Germans and their Axis friends.
We sent a small amount of British children to seek refuge in Christian English speaking countries. Canada and the USA.
Hospitals and schools were bombed in the major cities of the UK. There was major shortages of medicines,penicillin and food stuff. Rationing of all essential commodities.
The men of this country did not up stumps and leave their families unless they were going to war to fight our enemy on other shores.
Even the French stayed put and put up some resistance.
What is brought home to me is that even the other Arab/Muslim surrounding countries do not particularly care about their fellow refugees. The Arab league or council could do a lot more. They have the wealth and the space to accommodate these people . We don't. It is a propoganda film and nothing else.

[whiskeryron]

aog/retrocop, I really do see what you are saying & appreciate your point of view ( especially regarding the Arab nations) it was just that the Syrian situation was brought home to me by the video showing what it would be like for us to be in the predicament the ordinary people of Syria are in. Don't get me wrong I am very much against our forced EU policy of open borders & am very much in favour of the Arab countries taking in the great flow of immigrants flooding Europe at the moment.

[ichkeria]

It's rather disgraceful that is needs to be brought home.

Thanks whiskeryr (I also thought you where "whiskey" too btw)

[ichkeria]

"The men of this country did not up stumps and leave their families unless they were going to war to fight our enemy on other shores.
Even the French stayed put and put up some resistance. "

There is no comparison whatever between the experience of Britain in WW2 awful tho it was, and Syria in the last few years.
As for "even the French put up some resistance" what on earth do you think has been going on in Syria? No resistance??!!

Nonetheless in WW2 people fled where and when they could: the Jews for example from Nazi Germany and elsewhere.

[youngmafbog]

//he Jews for example from Nazi Germany and elsewhere. //


Is Surrey in Germany?

This brings nothing home at all to me.

[ToraToraTora]

brings what home? that Syria, like most of the middle east, is a sh1th0le ? Don't think we need a video for that ron. What point are the filmmakers tying to make?

[ichkeria]

I think the point of the film is to try and show what it might be like if you lived in Surrey and life suddenly got impossible.
The problem is, the problems acted out in the first part of the film bear little relation to the horror of Syria. That is shown more in the second part. However the title alone should do. Then all you need is your imagination

[ichkeria]

'All you need is your imagination'

I don't do irony or if I do I'm a bit slow to catch up :-)

[retrocop]

Let us remind ourselves who started this civil war shall we.
The last war the Tories took us to was not of our making. We liberated British Sovereign Territory and finished the job. Unlike Mr Bliar who decided to go to war for a regime change and NO post war policy.
It would seem that as it was fashionable within the Arab nations for their own regime change they created the Arab Spring. Well it seems these Arab Springs broke and it would seem Western Europe are supposed to pick up the pieces of the mess they created for themselves.The Arabs opened Pandora's box and IS are marching over the Middle East.

[-Talbot-]

. Unlike Mr Bliar who decided to go to war for a regime change and NO post war policy.


Let's not mention Cameron's role in liberating Libya eh?
he even told them they had no greater friend than the UK.
What was his post liberation policy?
Let them drown in the Med?

[-Talbot-]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpyH9sPKk30

[-Talbot-]

'We'll stand with you as you build your democracy'

LOL...that's going well isn't it

[retrocop]

Talbot

//What was his post liberation policy?
Let them drown in the Med?//

HMS Bulwark is a ship of Her Majesty's Brittanic Navy currently saving people from drowning in the MED!!
Don't you keep up with the papers?

[New Judge]

"...what it might be like if you lived in Surrey and life suddenly got impossible."

Surrey isn't Syria and that's that. People in Surrey do not fight and bomb each other because they cannot get on with one another. They may have done so four or five centuries ago (without the bombs, obviously) but now they don't. Things have moved on.

In Syria (and many similar cesspits) they haven't. And they never will whilst they follow ridiculous religious fanaticism. Western Europe has gone through its phase of civil war and upheaval and has become a better place. Those in places where such progress has not been made should stay where they are and sort it out. I doubt they will succeed but that's no justification for them invading Europe.

I'm none too concerned about what the cause of all this is (and bear in mind that it is not that long ago that the UK was considering assisting the "freedom fighters" that are now gassing and bombing the populace). I'm more concerned with the effects. I certainly don’t need to be asked to imagine what it’s like for the people there because, in a nutshell, I don't care.