When Are These Celebrities Going To Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3852104/Gary-Lineker-sparks-Twitter-row-blasting-utterly-heartless-treatment-child-migrants-arriving-Calais.html

/// 'The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?' ///

But then Lineker has always been supportive of 'Walkers'. :0)

[vulcan42]

I would suggest that the majority, if not all, of these celebrities are more concerned with their persona being kept in the public eye than any genuine concern of migrants. Various camps have existed since 1999, why are these celebrities only talking about it now?

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //aog, what are you talking about? //

I suggest our venerable colleague takes exception to the term used in ummm's post at 12:15.

[andy-hughes]

vulcan42 - // ...why are these celebrities only talking about it now? //

Because even human tragedy has it's moment in the media sun, and that is when people think, and the tweet about it.

[jno]

nobody has the faintest idea what Gary Lineker or Lily Allen do with their money and it's fatuous to claim otherwise (unless of course you're prepared to present some evidence?)

[vulcan42]

andy-hughes, are you suggesting that for the past seventeen years they haven't thought about it?

[Islay]

JNO that is what I said in my first post but of course it has been ignored by the right wing lobby!

[ichkeria]

Here's a man who threatened to do MOTD in his pants, and did just that, so in the money and mouth stakes I'm not sure he has much to prove

[jno]

Islay, I'm sure they could ask President Trump to ask his Russian chums to hack into Lineker's tax returns.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //I suggest our venerable colleague takes exception to the term used in ummm's post at 12:15. //

Oh.... I see.

[ummmm]

For someone knowledgeable you're pretty slow on the uptake, Naomi!

Celebs, non celebs, I've seen poverty and got upset by it. Can I offer them a home....NO....I don't know these people.

[naomi24]

ummmm, //For someone knowledgeable you're pretty slow on the uptake, Naomi! //

Where pointless posts are concerned it's of my many failings.

[youngmafbog]

I suspect these people would only fund something and then only if it was not in their back yard. As for taking in boarders have we seen anyone actually do it or was it hot air?

Remember these are liberal left luvvies, they believe in do as I say not as i do.

[naomi24]

belladonner, // What would be the point of showing little children coming over from Calais? //

Did you watch The Daily Politics yesterday? There aren't any 'little children' coming over from Calais.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Can I offer them a home....NO....I don't know these people. ///

And neither do I, and that is the reason that I don't want them in my home or even in my country.

[youngmafbog]

// One photo that was supposed to be a child refugee was actually the photo of an Interpreter accompanying the children//

You appear to be spouting rubbish. Read this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3854888/Charity-FALSELY-claims-38-year-old-child-asylum-seeker-actually-interpreter-one-migrant-Calais-confesses-course-majority-lie-age-UK.html

[anotheoldgit]

belladonner

/// What would be the point of showing little children coming over from Calais? No juicy bits for the outraged right wing middleclases to get their teeth into. ///

Ah! so it's all a right-wing middle-class complicity is it, the reason that they are only sending over adult men rather than little children?

That is amazing, the right-wing get up to all kind of tricks, don't they just?

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

To be fair naomi belladonna has already explained why we don't see any coming over.

There would be no juicy bits for the outraged right wing middleclases to get their teeth into.

[anotheoldgit]

youngmafbog

What an ideal link ymb, it won't be the first time that the liberal left have falsely stated that this adult migrant was an interpretor.

Now we know that this was yet another adult seeking refugee in this country.