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Response To Hopkins
Dear Mrs Hopkins, I am writing to you in response to your recent absurd monstrosity of an article about migrants- it simply didn’t quite fit with me. The points you make in this heartless piece, I can not comprehend, and I’m sure I speak on behalf of the UK. Starting with how you label the migrants as ‘cockroaches’, says a lot about your closed minded views- these so called ‘cockroaches’ are human beings. Their desperation for a normal, safe life has resorted them to risking their children’s lives and their own life. Do you feel no sympathy for these people trying to gain peace and prosperity? These distressed people have one thought in mind: to pursue happiness and wellbeing. You need to take a hard look at yourself, Hopkins, if you cannot …show more content…
We are seen as precious humans that need to be looked after, as we are seen as innocent- it’s a maternal instinct to look after one another. You being you, this is evidently something you don’t have. Looking further into your discriminating, scandalous article, you stated, ‘And we don’t need a campaign from Save the Children to encourage more migrants to take the journey. What we need are gunships sending these boats back to their own country.’ No. We don’t need to do that. What we need to do is make room for the poor and give them a chance to regain dignity and make a better life for themselves, give them a second chance- I’m sure you have had too many second chances, more than it’s worth, Katie. You also make it apparent that Britain isn’t paradise- ‘Britain is not EL Dorado. We are not Elysium. Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like monopoly money.’ First of all, yes we know Britain is no paradise, however, they see it as this, as anything is better from where they have come from- destruction, hate, evil. You describe our towns being swarmed with migrants and that they are destroying them. Are they really though? What mass destruction have we heard of since they

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