As you all know, I have a view on almost every subject. I never used to have. I used to be just like you and believe that I couldn’t do anything.
This week the press and media seem to be concentrating on the famine in Ethiopia, and the increasing numbers of refugees coming into the Country.
As usual, I have a view I would like to share with you.
The Ethiopia situation is sad, but is it right to encourage people to settle and live in an area where drought is the norm? Add this to a continuing war with it’s neighbours and funding must be being diverted to this ‘cause’ rather than looking after the population.
A similar situation exists in Zimbabwe, where the rulers are ignoring recent election results, confiscating land and saying that Britain should provide compensation. All the time Britain is providing £65 million a year in ‘aid’.

Meanwhile on our own doorsteps, we have the situation of thousands of refugees from eastern Europe manage to flee their own countries and arrive in the Channel ports without passing through anywhere else.
I have checked my atlas, and something is wrong. It shows that at least 3 countries have to be crossed before even getting to France/Belgium/Holland. The Dublin Treaty, which all these countries have signed up to, states that refugees have to request asylum ‘in the first country they come to’.
Does France/Belgium/Holland/Germany/Austria/etc. really have that number of people wishing to flee those ‘oppressive regimes’?