How Much More Proof Do We Need..

[bazwillrun]

Of how out of touch some of the judiciary are ?.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34502419

Mugs....what else can they be called after coming out with this garbage...

[Boto]

I heard part of the interview on Today by John Humphrys with one of the female judges. She was pathetic - long pauses, couldn't/wouldn't answer the questions.

[bazwillrun]

""And weighty because of the signatories. Four former Law Lords, five retired Court of Appeal judges, a former president of the European Court of Human Rights, an ex-director of public prosecutions and 100 QCs who regularly represent the government."

so...a bunch of old duffers for the most part then...and an ooman rights lawyer, president of the euchr no less, there just had to be I suppose....

[Old_Geezer]

It's all very well wanting your country/people to be seen as the nice caring folk, but judges, even ex-judges, should be capable of seeing the larger picture and the possible consequences of trying to be Madam Bountiful. As I understand it refugees stay in neighbouring countries. Otherwise they become economic migrants. So this view of the judges is misplaced/inappropriate. I wish my country to be caring, but not to the extreme of being one of the world's unthinking suckers. One needs to understand one looks after one's base first in order to be able to continue offering help where needed. And the main focus should be on solving the cause of the conflict and helping those staying in camps just over their country's borders.

[anotheoldgit]

Wasn't they recently complaining about the cuts in Legal Aid?

http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/07/15/09/Legal-Aid-Protest-Getty.jpg

So perhaps they want to top up their gravy boat.

Apart from that I wonder if the hordes will upset their standard of living, will their children's education be effected, will they have to wait hours in their A&Es, will their community be overcrowded, etc, etc?

[andy-hughes]

You don't have to be a member of the judiciary to be out of touch with what's going on.

[Togo]

Now you know why the countless asylum applications are waved through and valid deportations blocked and overturned. Fifth columnists all, and making a fortune from the legal aid trough. We wouldn't know what was going on if the judiciary had their own way would we andy, apart from what they choose to tell us of course.

[Gromit]

I could understand it if ONE was 'out of touch'. But 300!

If 300 leading doctors signed a letter, or 300 economists then I doubt anyone would say they were out of touch.

Compared to other countries 20,000 is pathetic. The Government response is a political one, not one based on the size of the problem.

[bazwillrun]

Compared to other countries 20,000 is pathetic....

its 20,000 too many....lets wait until it kicks off in the next country and the next and on it goes, and all you bleeding heart liberals etc will keep on saying to take them in....you and your sort seem determined to turn the UK into a thirld world schiiithole

[Togo]

How many have say... Russia agreed to take in from Syria Gromit.

[Ric.ror]

Compared to other countries 20,000 is pathetic. The Government response is a political one, not one based on the size of the problem

Yet we are second only to the US in aid contributions to Syrian relief

How many have say... Russia agreed to take in from Syria Gromit

Probably the same as UAE

[Gromit]

The Syrian war has caused 4.1million refugees.

Here is where they have gone...

Turkey: 1.9 million
Lebanon: 1.1 million
Jordan: 629,000
Iraq: 249,000
Egypt: 132,000
Germany: 98,700
Sweden: 64,700
United Kingdom: A pathetic 7,000

[Ellipsis]

Germany needs a bigger population. In the UK we already had a "housing crisis".

Germany could take another 10 million people before it was as densely populated as the UK; France, another 76 million ...

Where is France on your list of where they have gone, Gromit?

[Gladeian]

Fender62 - you have it one !