Gary Lineker should be applauded for speaking out against the Tories

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We should learn from history and not continue a policy that will bring eternal shame to the UK (PA Wire)

Gary Lineker seems set to be punished for speaking out against the Tory party and expressing his concerns about the government’s attempted crackdown on small boats. He should be applauded for it.

However, he may not have used the most accurate simile. The government’s asylum plan is much closer in nature to the pitifully small immigrant quotas applied to those migrants who fled from Nazi Germany and sought to reach the safety of the UK during the Second World War.

The Kindertransport was but a small ray of hope in those dark times, and yet even then there were extremely small quotas for refugees.