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Beirut Explosion

US and French police arrive to start an investigation into the cause. Where are the British police?

Nicholas Beard ● 1822d16 Comments

So why do most go elsewhere?

Keith Iddon ● 1819d

Asylum seekers come to the UK because English is the common language.

Nicholas Beard ● 1819d

Actions over sixty years ago bear no responsibility for the unsafe storgae of chemicals in 2020.Yes they do speak the same language: Levantine Arabic of which Lebanese Arabic is a subset.What point are you trying to make?

N V Brooks ● 1820d

We did invade some of these peoples countries. Also they speak the same language as well.

Nicholas Beard ● 1820d

FAR bigger countries (France is over twice the size of the UK).

N V Brooks ● 1820d

France and Germany take more asylum seekers than we do.

Susan Kelly ● 1820d

I assume refugees and asylum seekers make such as effort to come to the UK because they've heard of our long tradition of tolerance, our naturally welcoming attitude, and our innate consideration for those worse off than ourselves - but maybe they were mistaken!

Peter Evans ● 1820d

Far better to spend any spare cash sorting out the mess of illegal immigrants crossing the Channel and invading Britain.Why are these people choosing us over all the other safe countries they've been dragged through?  Is the UK's Welfare system so superior and generous -are we the the best "soft-touch"?

Jennifer Selig ● 1820d

It's none of our business.

Susan Kelly ● 1821d

Our Police have far more important work to do like fining those without masks and this who drive a vehicle.And they cannot manage to even find cyclists who know people down on pavements and speed off.So investigating a bulk load of weedkiller that did not have anything to do with the UK?

Raymond Havelock ● 1821d

I'm sorry, but frankly I think it's a bloody good thing we aren't getting involved. We're not the world's policeman and enough money has been frittered away trying to solve the abduction of Madeleine McCann, a crime that happened on foreign soil.

Ian Speed ● 1821d

If the Americans are there we should follow. We are now free to act on the world stage after Brexit.

Nicholas Beard ● 1821d

Where are the Germans and Australians and Mexicans and and.......

Paul Fisher ● 1821d

Why?

Keith Iddon ● 1821d

I know, but why the US? We should be there as well.

Nicholas Beard ● 1821d

France was the colonial power in Lebanon.

Susan Kelly ● 1822d