The Guardian: Cameron won’t take refugees who have reached Europe – like there’s a humanitarian offside rule

15/09/2015
CommonWeal

The British government is only accepting migrants from camps – we don’t want the ones who cheated and didn’t wait to shout “What’s the Time Mr Wolf?”, writes Frankie Boyle

DAVID CAMERON visited a refugee camp in Lebanon on Monday.

Our prime minister, a man who can normally muster all the moral authority of Roman Polanski’s penis, has discovered his soul. Amazing what a three-week break away from parliament can do.

It only took David Cameron six years to finally come out and take a moral stand, and all it took was the death of one toddler.

You may call the Tories’ glacial crawl towards respecting human life a political and personal train crash. I call it compassion.

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