The public reaction to the crisis shows we’re better as a country than the government gives us credit for. We could succor hundreds of thousands of peopleTerrible things are happening across our continent. On just the other side of the Channel people are living in destitution,scraping together an existence as they wait and hope to arrive to Britain. In the Czech Republic people are being rounded up on trains, their forearms marked with felt tips before they are held in detention. In Hungary the police are stopping people with tickets from boarding trains to Germany. In the Mediterranean people are floating through night and day on vessels that are barely seaworthy. Many of those vessels sink, and the people on them,like the child washed up dead on Turkey’s shores this week, never make it to the other side alive. These are people – treated differently from me only because of the country in which they were born. Related: UN calls on European Union to take 200000 more refugees Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com