Stop helping people.

Have a look at this video.

What kind of nation do we live in where trying to reunite a child with their family is an Imprison-able offence?

I realise the hard issues at play here, the difficult situation of nations having to safely resettle immigrants is complicated by matters Legal, Social and political but then things like this happen and you see that in lot of cases people are just stuck because they've fallen into cracks of the system after fleeing terrible situations.

The apathy of the political elite to do something in the face of the defenseless is... well let's face it, that's just par for the course now isn't it.

Are any of us really surprised?

These are not voters, not taxpayers, not citizens nor even particularly well represented in the media, The Calais camp and the Refuge Crisis are just the product of larger problem within Britain and the EU.

Governments have for sometime now ceased trying to be more than bureaucrats, year in year out they enact policies that are by and large merely supposed to appeal to a small section of society that polling says vote for them.

What ever happened to Leaders changing their country to help people?

Instead it seems that the Etonian prefer to make life as difficult as possible while at the same time making sure that it is impossible for the people of the nation to help those in need.

Just look at the sneering contempt our government has towards Unions and Charities.

It's not even as if this is an isolated case, take the legal case of an asylum seeker's court fines being paid by a magistrate. [Source]

Professional organist Nigel Allcoat, a magistrate for 15 years, said he was despairing at the mounting fines and costs being accrued by an asylum seeker at Leicester magistrates court.

“As a magistrate, my job is to prevent more crime, but now the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) would have me sent to traitor’s gate,” he said. “But it is something I take very seriously.”Howard League criticises 'unfair and unrealistic' court fees The 65-year-old magistrate said the young man in his 20s had appeared before him in early August having defaulted on his fine, and had to also pay £180 in mandatory court charges, The 65-year-old magistrate said the young man in his 20s had appeared before him in early August having defaulted on his fine, and had to also pay £180 in mandatory court charges, under legislation introduced late in the last parliamentby the former justice secretary, Chris Grayling.

Allcoat said he had been deeply affected by images of refugees facing riot police in Hungary. “These people have travelled for hundreds of miles to reach us, I wanted to show what British justice meant, to show him the character of this country is actually compassionate.”

The man had £35 on a top-up card to use in specified shops, and was not allowed to take any form of work. A £60 victim surcharge he had owed in June had already been paid by a sympathetic burger stall owner who fed the young man occasionally when he was destitute, Allcoat recalled.

“What can someone do in that situation, when you tell them they need to find £180 or they will go to prison, but they cannot work?” Allcoat told the Guardian. “They could steal the money? Commit another crime? That would cost the state even more money to have him put in prison. It costs more to keep someone in prison than to send a boy to Eton.”

Let's be clear though, these charges were the result of an asylum seeker being taken to court because he couldn't pay a previous fine where he was then given £180 "mandatory court charges" where the magistrate decided to pay part of his charge since, as and Refugee, he is not allowed to work to earn money to pay of a fine.

So naturally a magistrate, someone who perhaps wants to see court cases seen through rather than just toss people in jail for it being impossible to pay the fine, is suspended because the poor should not be able to afford justice and woe betide anyone the state does not deem it acceptable to help.

I really question the sanity of this Kafkaesque nightmare that Tory Britain has descended into.

Yours sincerely,
Ethan Blair.