REGARDING the recent correspondence published in the Wirral Globe about the "migrant crisis."
Let me state some facts.
The moving picture of the little boy on the beach – his father wished to come to Europe for "new teeth and a better life".
This is stated on a Sky News clip available on You Tube by the boy’s auntie who lives in Canada.
The father left Syria for Turkey, a safe country, then went back to Syria and put his two children and wife on a dinghy without life jackets; he could have just remained in Turkey.
In Great Britain we have seen our sick and disabled get benefits cut, libraries close, NHS unable to purchase life-saving drugs and thousands on the housing list.
Yet suddenly in this "age of austerity" we can welcome thousands of newcomers?
R C Holmes by email.
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