Monday - June 08, 2015

‘How long will it take to get to London?’ asked a migrant.  the future demographic

This is what is making the news over here, and I imagine it’s covered somewhat back home.
In not too many generations, this is what europa and the the uk will look like.

One of the headlines from a paper today. Big question is will the EU let them?

Is Italy about to shut the door on the Mediterranean migrants? Northern towns are ordered to stop accepting them because situation ‘is like a bomb ready to go off’

3,500 are plucked from Mediterranean in ONE DAY
· Pregnant women and children among the desperate migrants rescued 30 miles off the coast of Libya yesterday
· Those helped were given bread and water by crews onboard HMS Bulwark while security checks were carried out
· Royal Navy Merlin helicopter spotted the overcrowded boats yesterday morning on radar before launching rescue
· Up to 500,000 refugees are still waiting on the Libyan coast for migrant boats despite thousands drowning

By Larisa Brown On Hms Bulwark For The Daily Mail and Kate Pickles For Mailonline

Huddled in their hundreds on the lower deck of a warship, these are the desperate migrants who claimed the Royal Navy had ‘saved their lives’ after being rescued off the North African coast.

Children as young as two and heavily-pregnant women were among the 1,200 migrants rescued by HMS Bulwark at various points along the Libyan coast yesterday.

They were plucked from nine vessels – six of them rubber dinghies – set adrift off the coast as ministers fear half a million more people are waiting to make the trip, all hoping to be rescued by the military.

As those rescued clambered aboard HMS Bulwark in the Mediterranean, many took the opportunity to disclose the harrowing journey they had faced since fleeing the country.

One of those rescued said: ‘It was no problem.’ Others said they felt like they had been in hell.

Yasin, 29, from Islamabad, Pakistan, summed up many of the migrants’ feelings. She said: ‘The Royal Navy has saved my life. I want to live in Europe because I feel safe here.

It is thought that human traffickers launched the boats from the North African coastline knowing that naval ships would intervene and give the migrants safe passage to the European Union.

Their flimsy boats – described as ‘lilos with sides’ – were spotted by radar and two Merlin helicopters. They also had a huge wooden craft.

Not all the refugees came from failed African states. Some are Pakistani, proving that the trip across the Med is an established route for economic migrants.

Many more migrants were waiting for a ticket to Europe.  it’s reported 500,000 more.

Already this year, over 76,000 migrants have made the 260-mile crossing to Europe – 40,000 of them are now in Italy. Over the weekend at least 4,000 people were rescued by 11 different European vessels.

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