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With the sad demise of Thomas Cook I am hearing many stories of folk being kicked out of their hotels or being asked to pay more money before they are released from their accommodation etc etc. It got me wondering how we would treat holiday makers in this country if say a French or Italian etc company had gone bust.
We'd put them on the front of the Daily Express and say "look at these parasitic holidaymakers taking advantage of our kind and angelic hoteliers". Have you been on the moon these last few years?
Yes. Definitely. I can imagine questions like: "why should we help them?" "Why can't the EU do something?". And newspaper headlines about "European scroungers".
We are a soft touch here now, we have no culture we are just politically correct. We’d probably have a whip around and send them home richer than when they arrived. On a serious note I hope all those hotels locking old people and families out if their rooms suffer greatly and no one ever goes back....
Some people did, more didn't
RNLI donations surge after Tory criticism of its work overseas
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...feboat-charity
I read a tweet, haven't followed up on it to check if accurate or not, that described that the German "branch" of Thomas Cook was being bailed out so their staff members were not being treated in the same way. I don't know if anyone has seen that and checked accuracy?
I have just read the article. To be fair it states the RNLI is struggling for funds and is cutting over 100 jobs in this country whilst sending 3.3 million to foreign aid . Good housekeeping starts at home..
Further down it explains why it does the good work abroad and the amount sent abroad is less than 2% of its donations .
In my mind there is a serious question here,is the RNLI spreading itself a bit thin by expanding to foreign shores ?
How much money is donated to them when 3.3 million is less than 2% of their income .
That is a fantastic sum of money that should be properly managed.
Making a race issue of it takes away from the facts but I guess you need the race slant to get it into the headlines.
Typical posters hijacking another thread, to belittle their own. If the UK is such a bad place, why do many immigrants and refugees risk their lives to get here, once they’ve reached the safety of main land Europe?