The 29-year-old, who calls herself Noor, escaped from Yemen when her life was threatened and travelled alone with only smugglers and other desperate migrants for company en route.
It is highly unusual for a woman from a country such as Yemen to embark on this kind of journey unaccompanied. She was determined to flee not only because her own life was in danger but also in the hope of rescuing her four children from the Yemen civil war once she had reached safety.
Well, let's have a look at the map. Gosh, there's a lot of safe count...
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Noor’s journey began on 14 November 2019 by plane and continued by Jeep through one desert, then through another on foot before reaching Europe and crossing to the UK by small boat from Calais in July 2020.
She had passed through Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Morocco, Spain and France.
And yet none of them were good enough. I wonder why?
Now that she has arrived in the UK she wants to campaign against child marriage and lack of rights for girls and women in Yemen.
You couldn't do that in Egypt, Mauretania, Mali, Algeria, Morocco, Spain or France, then?
Noor has been accommodated in a hotel in London by the Home Office and is waiting for her claim to be processed.
And given the awesome competence of that august body, she'll almost certainly be here next Christmas. No doubt with the rest of her brood.
We are being taken for mugs, aren't we?
While I agree with everything you say, doesn't a case like this show, very clearly, that the UK is a far better place to be in than other shitholes on the list, like the Muslim countries and France? And isn't that obvious even to some bint in the middle of Yemen?
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should make a point of saying that before we ship her back to look after her family?
Maybe it shows that she came here to spread Islam. Just an idea.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that the UK, with all it's faults, is a better place to be than the shithole described, I would suggest that the level of benefits, free housing, medical care, and the pressures by SJW(UK) Ltd, make this country the place to be. No doubt there will be a Yemen inspired quango set up, paid for by the taxpayer of course.
ReplyDeleteI served in Aden, as it was, and it was a shithole then. The people wanted the British out, they got their wish, and it's turned into an even bigger shithole.
Penseivat
It's truly amazing how tenacious a really dedicated benefit seeker can actually be.
ReplyDeleteHang on, she left just before the Covid thing, and travelled through ALL THOSE COUNTRIES while international travel has supposedly been shut down? How is that possible? Unless... Maybe its only shut for the likes of us?
ReplyDeleteA heroine for the Guardian readers. In the real world she's a border hopping benefit cheat.
ReplyDeleteJaded
"...doesn't a case like this show, very clearly, that the UK is a far better place to be in..."
ReplyDeleteAnd for how long will that be the case, if the flood of people who caused their countries to become that way contibues?
"I served in Aden, as it was, and it was a shithole then. The people wanted the British out, they got their wish, and it's turned into an even bigger shithole.
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See also: South African and a lot of others...
"A heroine for the Guardian readers. In the real world she's a border hopping benefit cheat."
Day by day, the 'Guardian' seems to retreat into its own little pocket of unreality.