Hogwash.
The Government never specified a number.

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Edited by Willo (04 Nov 2017 10.33am)

Adoptive parents aren't forced to take a particular child so helping some more orphaned tent-dwelling kids would not necessarily be detrimental. But even getting to that point can be an extremely arduous emotional journey with many, many hurdles. I don't know what the figures are but it would be interesting to know the difference between kids up for adoption v the amount of potential adoptive parents out there.

The system in placing kids is flawed that much i do know.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Great. That's the way to make decisions for the nation.

Let's stretch that thinking to other situations and see how it goes.

The Government never specified any figure in relation to children which what this debate is all about.The Link I have provided sets this out and offers reasons as to why more children haven't been accepted to-date.

Couldn't the Scouts take them, they would feel more at home then.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

The thing is, not taking in immigrants and refugees isn't a decision made with the head.

It comes from a nationalistic impulse, which still conceives of the world as a Darwinian social competition. If, like Syria, your country has lost the race, then regardless of the circumstances, too bad. On the other end, Britain can interfere in other country's affairs, bomb them and sell them weapons, and as long as it keeps us at the front of the race, then it's accepted. Any repercussions, or even any responsibility for our actions, shouldn't cloud our need to prop up our GDP and maintain 'peace' within our borders.

And what is the 'peace' we are protecting? It's a crony despotism, where the same people who are selling the weapons which are creating refugees are building the most complex civil surveillance systems in the world and watching us like perverts, are making billions as they do it, returning none of the profits back to society, and leaving our schools, hospitals and public services in a f*cking mess. When things go wrong, we can blame the refugees they are creating, and as long as the headlines about GDP rising continue, no one, they believe, will do anything to challenge them.

So what does my head tell me? It tells me that our creaking workplace is being propped up by jobs in retails and services, and having worked many jobs in those fields and knowing people who do, I know they are close to breaking point and will soon collapse because we are losing the immigrant labour force who are the only f*cking people who will do those sh*t jobs for that sh*t pay. My brain tells me that I'm working in a school for kids who have mental disabilities and come from incredibly deprived backgrounds, and I don't even have the f*cking resources as a teacher to give them a chance in life, because the c*nts in the skyscrapers next to where I work won't pay their f*cking taxes.

And what does my heart tell me? That our bullsh*t British bravado, w*nk over Will and Kate, cheerfully elect whichever next pr*ck walks out of Eton again and again and grin and bear it while they rob us of our f*cking money, is justifying us allowing thousands, if not millions, of women and children to drown in the sea. That I have more in common with someone from Syria who's been f*cked over by the powers that be than I do with the faceless suits who work across the road from me. That they decide who the 'necessary sacrifices' are in this big old bullsh*t game of politics and that in another world, at another time, it could just as easily have been my insignificant f*cking body in their f*cking firing line as some poor sod from Afghanistan.

So please, those who want them all to drown, stop pretending your f*cking arguments are coming from the head. Rant over.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4