EDIT: Rereading that I sound like quite the conspiracy theorist. It's really just something I had wondered about that seemed relevant.
Let's be honest; you're now on a watchlist.
EDIT: Rereading that I sound like quite the conspiracy theorist. It's really just something I had wondered about that seemed relevant.
Wimbledon service resumed at 22.40, Parsons Green reopened at 00.58 this morning.
Actual 15 or nearer 30-40 but declared themselves as a child?Iraqi invited into this country aged 15. Now 18. Via Calais?
Visiting London from Yorkshire yesterday, I was impressed by just how calm the Underground was- the only location where the security messages were intrusive was at St Pancras (perhaps unsurprisingly) where they seemed to be on a constant repeating loop.
It now seems to be clear that the device didn't involve a gas cylinder, so I think this theory can be regarded as disproved.
As to the number of lineside fires at one time, while it was almost certainly a coincidence, I have wondered for a while whether there was something in coordinated sabotage. It wouldn't be very deadly, but a chain over the edge of a road bridge on one (overhead electrified) line, an abandoned warehouse on fire next to another, and so on, could rapidly remove most of the routes in to London from a region. I don't think it's happened, here, though. I don't know if anyone would ever try it. I don't know of any terrorist groups who want to make 500,000 people late for their breakfast meeting.
EDIT: Rereading that I sound like quite the conspiracy theorist. It's really just something I had wondered about that seemed relevant.
Actual 15 or nearer 30-40 but declared themselves as a child?
Apart from those with injuries, the people I feel most sorry for in all this is the elderly foster couple who, it seems, may have had their house used to store materials used in bomb making. Can you imagine being them? A lifetime of contributing to the public good, and now this?
Apart from those with injuries, the people I feel most sorry for in all this is the elderly foster couple who, it seems, may have had their house used to store materials used in bomb making. Can you imagine being them? A lifetime of contributing to the public good, and now this?
My issue is that because a small group of refugees have lied about their age, the narrative is that most are lying and so none of them should be trusted. Whenever that happens it doesn't tend to end well for either side.
Saying things like "...puts many people at risk of rape and murder" is alarmist and inaccurate. Statistically refugees or asylum seekers are LESS likely to commit violent crimes than the domestic population. Yes, that's scant comfort to those affected by terrorist attacks, but putting up divides between people is entirely the wrong way to deal with the threat.
It wasn't alarming. A 'child' put in a home for kids murdered a care worker in Sweden. Another committed rape.
I didn't go all Daily Mail and claim they all do it, but can't you see a risk of putting, say, a 40 year old male amongst children?
I am not against refugees at all, but I doubt anyone wasn't aware that some people destroyed their ID and claimed to be Syrian children when they were/are neither.
"Two thirds of disputed Calais 'child refugees' are adults, Home Office figures revealNot questioning - just genuinely interested. Can you provide a link to those statistics or the underlying data?
Thanks
My apologies - I was referring to the claim that refugees are less likely to commit crime than other members of society."Two thirds of disputed Calais 'child refugees' are adults, Home Office figures reveal
More than two-thirds of refugees arriving in the UK who had their age assessed were in fact over 18, Home Office figures reveal.
Data from the year ending in June reveals that of 933 refugees whose ages were disputed, 68 per cent were deemed to be adults."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ffice-dental-teeth-david-davies-a7369186.html
I didn't go all Daily Mail and claim they all do it
More than two-thirds of refugees arriving in the UK who had their age assessed were in fact over 18, Home Office figures reveal.
And if a 40 year old refugee can pass themselves off as under 18 face-to-face then I'm sure the beauty companies would love to give them employment and learn their secrets to maintaining that youthful look! :roll:
It really looks like you did, by bringing the unrelated marginal edge case into the discussion like that.