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Originally Posted by Stephen
Well I have done plenty of research in to the subject and am also very intelligent.
Most people that cross borders or try to live in other countries after fleaing their own aren't doing so the the fun of it. They are doing due to fear of dying in their own country or starving to death. We as human beings can't just say no, go back where you came from. We have to do whats right and show compassion.
Ihighly doubt our various UK governments would have been able to do half the stuff being in the EU has brought in. Its them that privatised everything and destroyed so many industries! Can't really blame the EU for all of that.
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But at what point do we consider that the changes to our way of life and standard of living etc. caused by admitting huge numbers of migrants from around the globe are too great? Your intent is admirable but the scale of world poverty, war, pestilence and plague is vast. There are hundreds of millions of desperate needy people in Sub Saharan Afirca alone. Clearly they can't all be accommodated here or in the EU so what are you going to do when the limit (whatever that might be) is reached? We have had a perfect example in Germany of what happens when well meaning people offer 'welcomes' and as we all know, our tolerance, hospitality and generosity tend to taper off rapidly when our own lives are adversely affected, jobs taken, wages undercut, areas changed, services overstretched etc. etc.
I dare say that if a homeless person knocked on your door this evening and asked for help you'd give him a few quid or some food. Would you keep doing that if he came back every day? What if he told his homeless mates and they came with hi asking for help? Would you let them stay over? There is a limit to generosity and we all have our own. Equally so on a national level. IIRC the UK is the world's second largest donator of foreign aid and as such I think we're already doing a hell of a lot more than many nations. Merkel's Germany isn't facing the problem we are - our population has been growing rapidly for years whilst Germany's has been in relative decline. If they were in our position they certainly wouldn't have opened their doors to a million more and in so doing caused massive unrest and disruption across large parts of Europe.