So I am sitting here thinking the devis from our kitchen re-arranger is really too expensive ...

[suein56]

and economies must be made somewhere, when I take a break and read this from the Grauniad :

As

the teenagers prepare to head back through the night to their far-flung

lodgings, with most having bus journeys of more than an hour,

15-year-old Awate tells me what he likes about the real-life Kent. “I

like the weather, I like the cold,” he grins. “I like the football and I

like the freedom of speech, it’s nice.”

He came to the UK in the back of a lorry through Calais, 10 months

after fleeing Eritrea when his parents were taken to prison for their

religious beliefs. “I was in prison for two weeks too, because I am

Christian, but when they let me out I ran. I was in the Calais jungle

for one week; I ate just one day and I was scared. I had teargas in my

face four times and I tried five times to get under lorries but the dogs

kept catching me. Most of the people I meet here are here for the same

reason, because of their government, not because of themselves. They –

we – are without power.”

and I think "perhaps, today, I am just being too western."

Sue

[Patf]

Some of the reports of the refugees/ immigrants imply that they're all Muslims, but as this report says, Christians are also being forced to flee from their homelands.

UK being a "Christian" country, more reason to accept genuine refugees.

Sorry can't avoid the religious issues here.