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Yvette Cooper says so too
fair play to these lefties: seems they are prepared to walk the walk here
fair play to these lefties: seems they are prepared to walk the walk here
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Nicola Sturgeon and Yvette Cooper have indicated that they would be prepared to house Syrian refugees as the Scottish government and Labour party intensified pressure on David Cameron to act generously.
Sturgeon told the Murnaghan programme on Sky News that she would be “absolutely happy” to take a refugee from Syria. This raised the prospect that a refugee could be housed in Bute House, the 18th-century Edinburgh townhouse that serves as the official residence of the Scottish first minister.
The musician and aid campaigner Bob Geldof said on Friday he felt “profound shame” about the response to the refugee crisis and said he would put up families in his houses in London and Kent.
On Sunday Pope Francis urged Catholic parishes and other communities across Europe to follow the Vatican’s example in taking in refugee families, and on Saturday Finnish prime minister, Juha Sipilä, offered his home in Kempele, 500km north of Helsinki, to accommodate asylum seekers from early next year.
Sturgeon, asked whether she would be prepared to take a refugee into her house, said: “I’ve been overwhelmed myself with messages from people across Scotland saying they personally would be happy to give a home temporarily, or for a longer period of time, to somebody fleeing Syria. Yes, I would be absolutely happy to do that as part of a bigger, wider, organised approach.”
Pressed further, Sturgeon described the questioning as gimmicky. The first minister, who has established a taskforce to prepare for the possible arrival of refugees in Scotland, said the whole matter could be academic if the prime minister declines to admit large numbers of refugees. The Westminster government is responsible for the control of UK borders.
Cooper also told Sky News she and her husband, Ed Balls, would be prepared to accept a refugee. Speaking before Sturgeon, the shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender said: “If that’s what it took and that’s what was needed, then of course, I think lots of people would be. But I think what I’ve been calling for is for each city and each county to support 10 refugee families. I think we can do that, I think we’ve got a lot of people across the country coming forward now and saying: ‘Do you know what, we want to help’.”
Thousands of other people have offered to house refugees in their homes as Britons respond to the refugee crisis.
Zoe Fritz, 39, who works as a consultant at Cambridge University hospital, said she set up her own database after seeing shocking images of the wave of refugees risking their lives.
Fritz who lives with her husband, seven-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter in Cambridgeshire, said she had heard from people “who clearly have the space to people who have said: ‘I don’t have much but I have more than a tent on a beach somewhere.’
“I have been in tears. I’ve been very, very heartened. We can all offer to help but we need to turn that into action.”
Fritz said members of her family fled the pogroms against the Jewish people in Ukraine and Belarus a century ago, while others found sanctuary in the UK as part of the Kindertransport programme to evacuate children from Nazi Germany.
“There is a precedent for this action in the UK, and I felt we should be doing more”, she said.
“I had hoped for 1,000 in a week so 2,000 in three days has surpassed my target.”
A fundraising campaign set up by children’s writer Patrick Ness to help with the Syrian refugee crisis passed £500,000 in just three days, with Philip Pullman being among a number of fellow authors and publishers pledging sums up to £10,000.
Ness launched the fundraiser on Thursday, explaining he had to do “something to help this refugee crisis” and matched the first £10,000 in donations for the charity Save the Children.
Sturgeon told the Murnaghan programme on Sky News that she would be “absolutely happy” to take a refugee from Syria. This raised the prospect that a refugee could be housed in Bute House, the 18th-century Edinburgh townhouse that serves as the official residence of the Scottish first minister.
The musician and aid campaigner Bob Geldof said on Friday he felt “profound shame” about the response to the refugee crisis and said he would put up families in his houses in London and Kent.
On Sunday Pope Francis urged Catholic parishes and other communities across Europe to follow the Vatican’s example in taking in refugee families, and on Saturday Finnish prime minister, Juha Sipilä, offered his home in Kempele, 500km north of Helsinki, to accommodate asylum seekers from early next year.
Sturgeon, asked whether she would be prepared to take a refugee into her house, said: “I’ve been overwhelmed myself with messages from people across Scotland saying they personally would be happy to give a home temporarily, or for a longer period of time, to somebody fleeing Syria. Yes, I would be absolutely happy to do that as part of a bigger, wider, organised approach.”
Pressed further, Sturgeon described the questioning as gimmicky. The first minister, who has established a taskforce to prepare for the possible arrival of refugees in Scotland, said the whole matter could be academic if the prime minister declines to admit large numbers of refugees. The Westminster government is responsible for the control of UK borders.
Cooper also told Sky News she and her husband, Ed Balls, would be prepared to accept a refugee. Speaking before Sturgeon, the shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender said: “If that’s what it took and that’s what was needed, then of course, I think lots of people would be. But I think what I’ve been calling for is for each city and each county to support 10 refugee families. I think we can do that, I think we’ve got a lot of people across the country coming forward now and saying: ‘Do you know what, we want to help’.”
Thousands of other people have offered to house refugees in their homes as Britons respond to the refugee crisis.
Zoe Fritz, 39, who works as a consultant at Cambridge University hospital, said she set up her own database after seeing shocking images of the wave of refugees risking their lives.
Fritz who lives with her husband, seven-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter in Cambridgeshire, said she had heard from people “who clearly have the space to people who have said: ‘I don’t have much but I have more than a tent on a beach somewhere.’
“I have been in tears. I’ve been very, very heartened. We can all offer to help but we need to turn that into action.”
Fritz said members of her family fled the pogroms against the Jewish people in Ukraine and Belarus a century ago, while others found sanctuary in the UK as part of the Kindertransport programme to evacuate children from Nazi Germany.
“There is a precedent for this action in the UK, and I felt we should be doing more”, she said.
“I had hoped for 1,000 in a week so 2,000 in three days has surpassed my target.”
A fundraising campaign set up by children’s writer Patrick Ness to help with the Syrian refugee crisis passed £500,000 in just three days, with Philip Pullman being among a number of fellow authors and publishers pledging sums up to £10,000.
Ness launched the fundraiser on Thursday, explaining he had to do “something to help this refugee crisis” and matched the first £10,000 in donations for the charity Save the Children.
Yeah fair play, pointless hollow promise that some people think are good and will never happen.
The scottish krankie should offer them all free entry and how we are going to pay for it.
The scottish krankie should offer them all free entry and how we are going to pay for it.
As long as those beeches get their facts right.
I'll give a Christian refugee a home but wido chancers, I'll shoot!
I'll give a Christian refugee a home but wido chancers, I'll shoot!
Would not have had Sturgeon and Cooper down as Betfair forumites! 
But obviously they linked to my petition on the other fred
https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-dave-the-people-have-spoken-it-is-...
But obviously they linked to my petition on the other fred
https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-dave-the-people-have-spoken-it-is-...
^ and I mean it.
I have no problem WHATSOEVER looking after a person/s that is in genuine need but Nutty Nikki is seeking the sympathy vote oot her pishflaps ... with "you know who" egging her on.
I have no problem WHATSOEVER looking after a person/s that is in genuine need but Nutty Nikki is seeking the sympathy vote oot her pishflaps ... with "you know who" egging her on.
Nicola Sturgeon says she will let an asylum seeker live in her house
Lord Mayor of Bristol and Bob Geldof have said the same.
I do really feel sorry for these refugees they are in a desperate situation. And that picture of a 3-y-o boy washed up on a beach, amazing the impact that photo had, it was an image that hit very hard, but a week ago 71 migrants were suffocated to death in a container truck.
Lord Mayor of Bristol and Bob Geldof have said the same.
I do really feel sorry for these refugees they are in a desperate situation. And that picture of a 3-y-o boy washed up on a beach, amazing the impact that photo had, it was an image that hit very hard, but a week ago 71 migrants were suffocated to death in a container truck.
hound dog, you been on mars ?
the kid was was from a family that had been living in Turkey for 3 years, they had money, a home and were safe.
the kid was was from a family that had been living in Turkey for 3 years, they had money, a home and were safe.
^ Were they safe (?) I read that their town was at the centre of a battle between fighters with Islamic State and Kurdish fighters for almost a year. Don't know for fact if that was right or not but I did read it in one paper.
the family had been living in turkey for 3 years, the father has already told 2 lies to the press.
Their are rumours that the father was not even on the boat.
Their are rumours that the father was not even on the boat.
^ could be, HD2. Who knows and who knows where you heard that from?
FACT is - they were in a safe land. End of.
FACT is - they were in a safe land. End of.
Hound-Dog-2 wrote, "but I did read it in one paper."
Aye, and there's a guy down my chippy cursin' the day they got standard fish supper wrappings!
Aye, and there's a guy down my chippy cursin' the day they got standard fish supper wrappings!
that should stop many refugees coming to the uk.
the thought of having to share a house with Nicola sturgeon.
the thought of having to share a house with Nicola sturgeon.
Chances are that security measures will save the
Politicians from taking in a its
Politicians from taking in a its
Where are ye, Mam?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYRHkYrNAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYRHkYrNAk
Perhaps she will also spend her own money on healthcare and education for them too? Just soundbites pure and simple.
Will she bolllocks. The sum total these luvvies and chancers will take will be zero.
What if a homeless family from England applied to live at Nicola Sturgeon's residence would she accept them.
Were she to say no wouldn't that be discrimination.
Why has someone not tested this opportunistic shallow political gesture.
Were she to say no wouldn't that be discrimination.
Why has someone not tested this opportunistic shallow political gesture.
there was a soldier in the news the other day refused a council flat even though suffering from post traumatic stress disorder caused by what he went through
Quite right Epicurean, but it doesn't even need to be an English citizen. She should be now offered the chance to house and pay for the upkeep of one or more homeless Scottish tramps.
She is, after all, the head of the Scottish National Party, and should be looking to help her country's citizens, like it says on the tin.
She is, after all, the head of the Scottish National Party, and should be looking to help her country's citizens, like it says on the tin.
This reminds me of something from a couple of years ago.
Woman had been away on holiday, and when she came back found a family of migrants living in her house.
They had some sort of "cobbled up" form from an alleged landlord and were insisting it was their right to live there.
The punchline is that she worked in immigration....
Woman had been away on holiday, and when she came back found a family of migrants living in her house.
They had some sort of "cobbled up" form from an alleged landlord and were insisting it was their right to live there.
The punchline is that she worked in immigration....
My mum and I let an asylum seeker live in our house.
As my mum said, "It's never easy, but he is your dad."
As my mum said, "It's never easy, but he is your dad."
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