2015: Letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean, is this what the Tories mean by ‘British values’? mediadiversified.org/2015/04/16/let… #MDClassics
“Britain has lived its long life as an exemplary country, the small island with a massive impact”.
Less than twenty-four hours after David Cameron made this empire-esque declaration at the Conservative’s manifesto launch,
Less than twenty-four hours after David Cameron made this empire-esque declaration at the Conservative’s manifesto launch,
the latest reality of Britain’s brutal impact on the world appeared in newspapers. 400 migrants were reported to have drowned yesterday in the Mediterranean Sea; just months after Britain withdrew support for rescue operations.
The Government, then, have chosen to leave migrants to die in the Mediterranean – is this what they mean when they talk about ‘British values’? Apparently so.
These people – the term to describe them is ‘migrants’, which in British politics has become a somewhat dehumanising word – were women, men and children attempting to leave countries in North Africa and make it to European shores. Some are thought to have fled civil war in Libya,
..while others may have been trying to escape persecution or severe poverty in their country of origin. To the Conservatives these are trifling points, easily buried underneath news of yet another manifesto launch or the impending birth of a royal baby.'
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