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Originally Posted by Osem
Sorry it's certainly not hysteria to point out what's happening in the EU and what could so easily find its way here. As for demonising people, I have consistently stated here that we should be assisting genuine refugees closer to home. Sadly, the world is full of would be economic migrants and the more we allow to come here one way or another, the more will want to come and I couldn't care less what religion they are. That's not hysteria it's logic and it's happening right before our eyes in Greece now. To claim the UK will somehow remain 'immune' forever from the huge fallout of what's going on in Europe is naïve.
The rest of your post regarding ISIS and Farage is garbage and not worth commenting on.
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Yes, it is hysteria to point out a minority of failings and to appear to damn the whole process and a whole culture for it. You perhaps ought to chose your language more carefully so that you at least appear to have balanced sentiments. You perhaps ought to repeat your caveats about the majority of genuine refugees as you go. You can't expect folk to trawl through all your past texts.
Holding all the refugees in their first country of arrival is not sustainable because of the numbers involved. Many have to be taken by Europe and other continents. We have a combination of refugees escaping from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; those escaping rising sea levels in the Mekong and Ganges Deltas; those escaping the political consequences of increasing droughts of the sub-Sahara and those who we can call typical economic migrants. This is highly complex and will only get worse over the next generation as global warming progresses. The thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean Islands are very vulnerable as are many coastal communities. Where are they to go? As with Syria this is a global, not an EU problem. Syria and Africa just happen to be next door. We should also be thinking of not reducing foreign aid, but increasing it and targeting climate change mitigation and self help, without handing cash to corrupt officials. The consequences of not investing foreign aid now, cost far more later.
We would like to think that the Syrian / Iraqi situation can be managed in the medium term, with the return of peace, but the whole developed world working with the developing world needs a strategy to deal with the bigger problem in terms if rehousing, keeping migrants economically active and promoting the integration of uprooted peoples.
Don't get me onto neocons like Farage and climate deniers, who seem intent on making things far worse by opposing all attempts to reduce greenhouse emissions.