Dearest Foxy,

Sorry, I don't speak Twitterese. What does WFYB men in English ? Or in any other language ?

Love forever,

Joe

Joe, I don't know what it means either...but it's probably something along the lines of:

"Why is this smarmy individual addressing me in nauseating and disingenuous tones of endearment?"

Hi Poirot,

I don't think so, I checked it out on Google but I still don't get it.

'Nauseating' ? Moi ? Horses for courses, dearie.

Still, whatever floats your boat .......

Cheers,

Joe

Poirot and Foxy,

If you insist on only reading from left whinge publications such as the Guardian and far left whinge blogs, then you will be starved of what the mainstream thinks.

The reality is that the EU have implemented the same idealistic policies that KRudd and Juliar did, and as a result are reaping the same poisoned fruit, namely hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and thousands of people drowning. Tens of thousands are in camps that would make Nauru look luxurious, and EU countries are refusing to take these people from Italy or Greece.

There is a huge backlash growing in all EU states, and any government in the EU that wants to stay in power will have to address.

Hi Foxy and Poirot,

Thanks for the posts about the worrying new development in this whole sorry saga of asylum seekers and our governments desire for secrecy. These new laws supported by elements within the Labor Party put Australia into the same league as the worse of histories totalitarian regimes. Free speech was once a basic tenet of our democratic society, where to next for those with the courage to speak out, the gulag!

"Dozens of doctors, teachers and humanitarian workers have challenged the Abbott government to prosecute them for publicly discussing conditions in immigration detention centres." SMH

Hi Joe,

Your story about the "lovely woman from Ethiopia", clearly shows that Australia as a humanitarian nation will have to do a lot more in the future to accommodate refugees. Despite the displeasure of the lunatic right who want a 'Fortress Australia' approach to refugees.

Hi Paul,

Yes, indeed, let's push for an increased quota of genuinely destitute refugees who have filled out the forms, sometimes more than a decade ago, and waited, in vast, barren tent ghettoes. Not much chance for them to get on a boat.

So what's the alternative ? Allow every boatful to come if they have the money ? Then why not - seriously - just fly people here direct, since a plane ticket from Jakarta is surely cheaper than getting on a boat ? Qantas could fly a dozen planeloads every day.

And like that UN idiot Shetty suggested, we could take any economic migrant who wants to come here as well. Well, why not ? So, two dozen planeloads each day ?

Those are the choices: open slather, or rigidly-enforced quotas. Do you have a better idea ?

Cheers,

Joe