What's gone wrong with our priorities? No money to save lives, but plenty to bribe asylum seekers?

Question

Today's paper carried details of the lavish amounts of money spent on bribing failed asylum seekers to return home and to set them up in business. It also revealed that a highly effective treatment for curing prostate cancer will be denied to most sufferers on the NHS because of lack of funding. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/16/ncancer116.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_16122007
Why is our government so generous to foreigners and so mean to the unfortunate at home? As prostate cancer is a disease of middle age, one can assume that most beneficiaries will be people who have paid into our system. Where is the justice in all this?

Answer 1

What we are witnessing with Labour, is one of the biggest con-tricks of all time. The Labour Party has always had a blind spot when it comes to who pays their wages. They treat the electorate with contempt and arrogance. To bribe illegal immigrants to leave the country whilst denying the indigenous population funds to treat life threatening illnesses, is beyond perverse.
This Government is made up of appeasers and apologists. Weak and timid people who think that if they suck up to the bullies, they won't hurt them. Makes one feel sick.
Prostrate cancer will not figure high on this feminist Governments agenda. It only affects men.
There are over 500 charities that work with breast cancer and 1, yes, that's right, 1 charity that works to eradicate prostrate cancer. It's income is less than 1% of what breast cancer charities get.
The only good news on the horizon is that this incompetent shambles of government couldn't tell the time in a room full of clocks. They are lurching from one crisis to another. Gordon Brown is looking older by the day!.

Answer 2

I represent asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. I have been doing this job for over 5 years now and i have noted a dramatic decrease in the number of entrants into the UK over the past two years. The Home Office (also now known as the Border and Immgration Control) are in the process of opening 'holding centres' (similar to the current 8 or 9 detention centres already in place) for new arrivals and have stated they will deal with all fresh applications for asylum and refugee status applications within six months of arrival. Some of the comments i have read were supportive and showed that some people are aware of humanitarian issues in our world and are commapsssionate towards a cause i feel strongly about. Others, however, showed why the UK, particulalry English, are regarded as an igonorant nation. (please note i was born in Kent and have lived in the UK all my life). I think a few people may have forgotton that during WW2 places like Canada took UK Refugees until the end of the war some of you obvioulsy think that all the people should have been detained until the war was over or that the Jews who fled here in their hundreds should have been detained (especially those that had escaped from concentration camps because they were used to being detained!). There are many things that make me proud to be English, the attitudes of some towards people who had no choice in being born in countries that are repressed by dictatorship or are war torn make me ashamed.

Answer 3

This is the way a bunch of **** eyed people in Government, who have never grown up and still stick to the half baked ideals they had as students. Young people tend to be idealistic because they have no responsibilities; those governing us who still think the same way are just frightening, not to say incredibly incompetent.

Answer 4

Why is this money not being invested in enabling British people to "set themselves up in business", thereby easing strain on the welfare state, reducing unemployment and raising many British children out of poverty?

Answer 5

Sorry dear heart, but I am afraid I feel that as with UK and others if a fraction of the money used to make weapons to kill and maim were made available both needs could be met!

Answer 6

New Labour is why with their high taxation , no viable plans and a declining ability to govern, they have run out of ideas and promises to break.

they are floundering immigration is all they have to distract us from their ineptitude

Answer 7

pathetic isn't it. and whats to stop them telling all their friends to try it or for them to come back again to get another payment. nice of the government to be so generous with our money isn't it. yet when our own IE the police want some they tell them to get lost.

Answer 8

Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the stupidity of those in power!

Answer 9

well the best thing to d is when you die and come back reconated ask god to make you brown

Answer 10

Vote BNP!