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anotheoldgit | 08:41 Mon 09th Apr 2018 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5592357/Two-thirds-child-refugees-lied-age-18.html

Obviously most of the ordinary persons did, pity our authorities didn't take notice, but then they did everything to hide the fact, with the closed curtains on their coaches and the special barrier screens erected at the reception centres.

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They should be deported to the country of origin (possibly France) and permanently excluded from ever returning to the UK. What they did was put themselves above legitimate children in need. The backlash against migrants in general and Calais migrants in particular is in part because any sane and reasonable person could see these 'children' were not...
13:59 Mon 09th Apr 2018
// /// Do you not get bored of spouting the same bull on a daily basis? /// //

yeah that thought occurs to me - erm on a daily basis

however something to cheer you up AOG

I was yarting, blah blah blah about something - Bell's palsy I think, - dysgeusia, hyperacusis and that sort of stuff, inbvolvement of the acoustic nerv e and so on
and the "listener" ( if he can be called that) said:
"yes its true! I read that in the Daily Mail this morning"

even I paused for breath.

( for AOG fans and other slow thinkers - that story was to show that all truth REALLY does reside in the pages of the Daily Mail)
You've not made it clear though, AOG, why the Mail's report shows that we are letting too many in who are not really children. Checks were made and some were found to be adults. Hopefully they always check them. So what statistics are there on how many deceive the checkers?
The only way I would see what you mean is if normally just take the "children's" word for it and this sample showed that in fact 13% of past 'child' entrants were probably adults.
Of course we should make the tests as rigorous as possible and maybe we should detain the dubious cases for much longer in less comfortable conditions while we investigate further to deter others or put the onus on them to prove they are children- but I am pretty sure the dental checks and facial recognition tests have been shown to be unreliable at the margins so could easily get say a 16 year old and a 20 year old the wrong way round
So when is this government going to grow a backbone and throw these people out.
Still far far too many. One is too many. But the headline wasn't misleading at all: it was lying.
Shall we face facts? It's never going to alter is it ?
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for PP fans and other slurred speakers, do you understand what the hell he constantly goes on about?
well, there is this paper you see
newspaper I mean
that old buffers believe word for word
even tho they are old really should have learnt better in their long mis-spsent lives
and it isnt the Bible - they believe the Daily Mail
every word....

sorry AOG - I was unclear ....
PP - You are ALWAYS unclear.
AOG- the headlines in your last two links make it clear it is two thirds of those quizzed. They do not support the deliberately very misleading Mail headline. The first Telegraph one is equally misleading though based on the words in red. I may read it later if I get chance but I know it will show only 13% not 67% were actually found to be adults
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fiction-factory

It may have been a long day for some, but don't all these headlines say the same?

DAILY MAIL:

/// Two-thirds of UK ‘child’ refugees quizzed are actually adults ///

THE TELEGRAPH:

/// Two-thirds of child refugees screened by officials found to be adults, Home Office figures show ///

THE EXPRESS:

/// REFUGEE LATEST: Two-thirds of UK ‘child’ refugees quizzed are actually adults ///

THE SUN:

/// AGE RAGE Two thirds of ‘child’ refugees in UK who are quizzed about their age are OLDER than 18 ///

THE WESTMONSTER:

/// Two-thirds of ‘child refugees’ in UK who were questioned are actually
adults ///
Yes really. As explained in the DM article the 2/3rds was 2/3rds of the queried age individuals for whom the situation had been sorted, not 2/3rds of the total.
Who were questioned/quizzed is vital in order to spot the headline lie.

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