The refugee crisis

Any thoughts???
Has Germany started something they now want to stop?
Is Britain doing the right thing by only accepting those from camps in Jordan etc.?

Can Europe cope with the numbers that want to come here?

Lots of questions, but not any real answers.

My personal thoughts will wait till later.

Just wondering how you all are thinking?

 

I think we should do more. All we do right now is fund nato billions a year, give 12 billion to the EEC every year, give about 14 billion a year in foreign aid, gave 1 billion already to the Syrian refugees,give millions in gift aid, raise millions in one off fundraisers etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
And people think we should do more ? This at a time when child poverty is going up again, people are eating from food banks, theres people dieing because the NHS cant treat because of funding issues, millions are unemployed and millions are on the housing waiting list and yet people want us to spend more solving the worlds problems.
Do the British just hate their own people so much they would rather watch them suffer than spend more at home instead of saving the world.
The UK population is 60 millions. THE world population is c. 6billions. We cant save the world.
Or have the British just got some hang up about still trying tobe the head of a massive empire and they wish they were still colonialists at heart ?

 

Can we get one thing straight from the beginning please ?

Are we talking refugees or migrants ?

As for refugees, true ones, I think that we are right to take them straight from the camps and I think that is what all countries should do.

I don't feel that taking in pure illegal immigrants is right.

I am getting fed up with seeing teenagers jumping on the " refugee " bandwagon just to use our ( by this I mean Europe ) education facilities etc.

Also people who are so well dressed ( new trainers, clothes etc ) that are obviously just trying to abuse the system.

 

You got me a bit confused there Tam

 

I just know how I would feel if , for example someone took my life from me, everything I know, my family, my friends, my job, my home, my belongings, my town, my city, my country, bloody glad I'm not them. Hope this offends no one, I have a grandma aged 97 she went through similar, when will it stop?

 

This is a dreadful situation & I honestly don't know the answer.
All of these refugees are from planet earth just like we are! They do need help & id like to help them BUT I'm not sure if we can as a country take on 20,000 people, we don't have enough housing, school places, doctors surgerys & look at the NHS is on its knees etc. Having said that I can't bare the thought of these people in temporary accommodation or trying to flee their own country so they aren't killed, raped, beat etc etc it's a dreadful humanitarian disaster.
My biggest fear is...are we allowing huge numbers of Isis members to move into our country?
I really don't know what we should do!

 

Am I the only person here who dares to say out loud that a lot of these people are actually migrants and NOT refugees.

 

I totally agree but these people have to go somewhere, I love debate
I love this site

 

Hi Loki,
What do you mean, by " these people have to go somewhere ".

I personally think all migrants should be put on a boat/ plane straight back home.

 

Hi, what I mean is this has happened before. Not in this country but this has happened before. I'm not talking immigrants (look at stats in this area) Sorry if I'm ranting, my grandmother is 97 god knows what she would make of people needing help being turned away

 

We take more immigrants percentage wise but we still welcome anyone who needs help