Let's give some rational thought to the situation into which Martin invaded: it is my opinion that if anyone insulted Portugal by inference as a third world country ... she most definitely did.
Obviously she was of the opinion they weren't up to the job and she was needed to do their job for them ... or why do what she did?
There have been child abduction cases in Britain. When did we ever see the parents or witnesses hanging around in the street waiting to be taken to a police station to make their statements?
When did we ever see the parents being accosted by a total stranger who insisted on taking one aside to ask personal information?
When did we ever see parents abandoned to make a lone public appeal on the street without police support?
Does anyone think Yvonne Martin would have behaved as she did in a missing child situation in England?
Does anyone think the English police would have tolerated it?
Let's give some rational thought to the situation into which Martin invaded
(emotive rhetoric, your honour): it is my opinion that if anyone insulted Portugal by inference as a third world country
(in economic terms, she was right: GDP growth in 2006, at 1.3%, was the lowest not just in the European Union but in all of Europe. In the 2000s, the Czech Republic, Malta and Slovenia overtook Portugal in terms of GDP per capita. From 2010 until 2012, GDP per capita (PPP) in Portugal fell below those of Slovakia (in Europe) and Seychelles (outside Europe). In 2013 it was estimated that the Portuguese GDP per capita will be similar (within minus or plus US$1,000 per capita) of those of Greece, Estonia and Lithuania. The GDP per capita fell from just over 80% of the EU 25 average in 1999 to just over 70% in 2007. This poor performance of the Portuguese economy was explored in April 2007 by The Economist which described Portugal as "a new sick man of Europe".) ... she most definitely did.
Obviously she was of the opinion they weren't up to the job and she was needed to do their job for them
(an accusation routinely levelled at the PJ by McCann supporters, so why not YM?) ... or why do what she did?There have been child abduction cases in Britain. When did we ever see the parents or witnesses hanging around in the street waiting to be taken to a police station to make their statements?
(This was Portugal - and when were they 'hanging around in the street'?)When did we ever see the parents being accosted by a total stranger who insisted on taking one aside to ask personal information?
(All the time. There are manifold support services eager to offer support - when my house burnt down a kind man from St. John's Ambulance helped us - last time I nearly cried openly - nearly, not because of the house, but because such people exist)When did we ever see parents abandoned to make a lone public appeal on the street without police support?
(They were on holiday, not leafy Leicestershire).Does anyone think Yvonne Martin would have behaved as she did in a missing child situation in England?
(Yes, that's her job - social worker).Does anyone think the English police would have tolerated it?
(Yes, they would have encouraged support services to assist in their specialism)