The EU Migrant Crisis

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teaboy5 said:
An example was given which included one child. I am taking about larger numbers in each class. There is no way it would work without affecting the other kids.
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Why don't you go and do some research to find out what the answer is?

You've got a supposition - find some numbers to validate it.
 
FoxEye said:
Yet again, you demonstrate a complete lack of awareness about the cuts being undertaken "everywhere else."

Cuts in public services, cuts in disability allowances, cuts in policing...

And "everything else" is funded by tax money.

It's soooo easy to spend other people's money, isn't it... Why don't the people so vocally supportive of taking economic migrants use their *own* money, not the dwindling tax revenue, to fund all this?
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Quite ironic given his anti cuts mantra.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Why don't you go and do some research to find out what the answer is.

You've got a supposition - find some numbers to validate it.
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And why don't show us all how it will work. And not some silly little example of how one child worked fine in your wife's school, so it will work fine everywhere else theory.
 
OldCoals said:
But we are cutting services in this country.

We have just ended funding for about 12 different cancer drugs.
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Yes - that's an issue, I don't disagree. But using it as an excuse to do nothing doesn't fly. As I've said previously, the crisis is political - not a crisis with money or capacity.

I agree we need to do something but we should be tackling the problem at source, not adopting a populist sticking plaster approach.
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I agree, but I see nothing wrong with having a short term, medium term and long term solution. ATM, we seem to have no plan at all.

I'd like to see a short term plan to help those in immediate danger, a medium term plan to educate and improve the situation of those we've helped and a long plan term to assist Syria (and other countries) become a country they can return to in safety - taking our enlightened culture with them.
 
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Boycey0211 said:
But so are the people opposed to the idea, and herein lies the problem.
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Nobody has yet said where we could find the money.

What do they think we're spending too much on, currently?

Welfare?
Defence?
Infrastructure?
Public services?
NHS?
Education?
Transport?
Policing?
Industry subsidies?

What areas can we afford to take money away from?

All we hear is that "we're a rich nation - we can afford it", but we all know that wealth is not evenly distributed here in Britain. The rich could afford to take a hit, most likely.

But the burden of economic migration will end up costing the poor and middle class disproportionately more, as the austerity cuts have already demonstrated.
 
scorza said:
Wonder if BBC News will lead with the results of that poll?
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Why would they? As well as being quite a small poll it's also quite badly worded. The majority of the responses are actually in favour of Syrian refugees continuing to come to the UK, only 14% said to stop entirely.

'Increase in admission' as I read it refers to a rate of admission, not total numbers.
 
FoxEye said:
Nobody has yet said where we could find the money.

What do they think we're spending too much on, currently?

Welfare?
Defence?
Infrastructure?
Public services?
NHS?
Education?
Transport?
Policing?
Industry subsidies?

What areas can we afford to take money away from?

All we hear is that "we're a rich nation - we can afford it", but we all know that wealth is not evenly distributed here in Britain. The rich could afford to take a hit, most likely.

But the burden of economic migration will end up costing the poor and middle class disproportionately more, as the austerity cuts have already demonstrated.
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Well the obvious answer is the bloated foreign aid budget, which is actually appropriate since it's for helping foreigners. Bet when Labour signed into law that the FA budget must be 0.7% of GDP they never envisaged it funding refugee camps in our own country. Anyway, divert money from India and their space programme.
 
Every Council in the UK is tightening their belt and cutting where they can. Essential services are taking a direct hit. Schools are at breaking point because not only are they supporting foreign students who don't speak English yet. They also have to provide support workers and smaller class sizes for ADHD, autistic and Aspergers children.

So yea just bringing thousands of migrants from the 3rd world that want a fresh start in Britain when others have to go through a rigorous point system isn't fair and it's not smart.

Also calling it now, in the coming months when we face some terrorist attack, we will find out they arrived through guise of immigration.
 
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