{"id":3742,"date":"2021-11-25T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/tragic-preventable-loss-of-life-in-the-channel-action-needed"},"modified":"2021-11-25T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:22:00","slug":"tragic-preventable-loss-of-life-in-the-channel-action-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/tragic-preventable-loss-of-life-in-the-channel-action-needed","title":{"rendered":"Tragic, preventable loss of life in the Channel: action needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are devastated to learn that 27 people have died in the Channel, trying to reach safety in the UK.\u00a0These were people with hopes and dreams, friends and family. They should never have been put in a position where their only option was to cross a deadly stretch of water.<br \/>\nThe British public are in agreement that these dangerous crossings need to end \u2013 no one wants to see people dying 15 miles off our coastline. But instead of taking a compassionate and realistic approach, the government is ensuring that the Channel becomes increasingly more dangerous and deadly.<br \/>\nInstead of ensuring that people can get to the UK safely, the government pursues ever-higher fences and illegal &#8216;pushbacks&#8217; at sea.<br \/>\nInstead of international cooperation, requests from the French authorities have been met with posturing and bravado.<br \/>\nThe government must accept responsibility for these deaths, and change course now to prevent further loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking t&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are devastated to learn that 27 people have died in the Channel, trying to reach safety in the UK.\u00a0These were people with hopes and dreams, friends and family. They should never have been put in a position where their only option was to cross a deadly stretch of water. The British public are in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}