Is it right for the EU to impose refugee quotas on the UK?
The EU is planning to change its legislation for a mandatory migrant quota system which will mean EU countries share responsibility for “mass influxes” of non-EU migrants like all the refugees currently trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, Greece and Spain.
EU countries migrant quota would be based on their size, wealth and unemployment rates.
Britain, which last year accepted 31,745 asylum applications, could expect to have these numbers doubled as France already accepts twice as many people as the UK and Germany welcomes seven times more that us.
The UK has always been a place of refuge for people fleeing wars, tyrannical regimes and persecution and we are well known as a welcoming country for those in need.
Should we be accepting more refugees? Is it right for the EU to impose this legislation? What do you see as the options?
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to sea at rate were going if keeps this rate up i wont be round in future i dread to think what it be like in 25-30 years time the people
i feel sorry for are my Grand children they will the ones to suffer
On a different subject, why are we trying to bring home those who want to join ISIS? If they want to go, let them. On the strict understanding they will not be allowed to return. Why have we allowed 700+ jihadists to return? Our stupidity beggars belief.
All we are doing is putting a sticking plaster on to try and stop the bleeding when it really needs stitching and finding out why it bled in the first place and then cure the root of the problem.
One comment was to have an army that went to sort out the leaders of these countries the immigrants are coming from and I truly believe this is the only solution. Start with the corrupt people who are lining their own pockets while the rest of the country live in abject poverty and oppression and invest the wealth in improving the country.
If the powers that be really want to overcome this problem they need to all be of the same mind and force the corrupt leaders to do the right thing by their people.
Perhaps this would happen in a perfect world - but it has to start somewhere!
However, what's upset the apple cart in recent years has been the surge in the number of economic migrants seeking a better life in the west. Membership of the EU is intended to facilitate the free movement of capital and labour between members states, but unfortunately the capital markets, which are increasingly global, are a law to themselves, which leaves the EU as the whipping boy for the problems associated with labour movement.
This is all then exacerbated by the general lawlessness and exploitation apparently endemic to large regions of Africa and Asia, which has produced a new generation of migrants fleeing real dangers and hardships at home, and seeking a better and safer life in the process.
If there's going to be a workable solution to this problem, it needs to focus around ways of dealing with these issues in the 'home' countries. Not easy, when any measures we may take will be condemned as imperialist or neo-colonialist. However, we do need to persevere if we are to persuade migrants to stay at home and not risk swamping our ability to support our own population.
Europe dont contribute to UK just take out just look at Roma
Many of these people are not fleeing persecution anyway, they are economic migrants.
meagre possessions & dumping them in a life threatening situation at sea, By "Dealing" I don't mean just simply discussing the problem in various places I mean a co-ordinated REAL EFFORT!- by Europe to wipe out this inhuman racket,
Unfortunately regardless what we are told they get here and do receive benefits and help right away .Get help with filling out all the relivent forms.
There are going to be enough cut backs to the unemployed and the people who work in poorly paid jobs with Cameron and his crew .So no I don't think we should take more people in .They see money and homes for themselves that's why they are all scrambling to get here from Calais ,France.
Or send them into the rich arab countries - Saudi Arabia, Dubai etc where the cultures are much more similar and the rich arabs live let them house them all. Just where do the EU propose that the uk keep housing all the immigrants they want to keep sending us? In the council houses that cameron and co. are wanting to kick the existing tenants out of on their proposed 5 year tenancy limits? where will they go to school? in schools already full to bursting?
How will the hospitals cope? where will they find jobs? will tax payers have to pay even more tax and see living standards fall even further to keep these immigrants in comfort?
Will the food banks grow at an even more alarming rate and form queues as these people join the end for their handouts?
None of these eurocrats even think of the problems they cause with their ridiculous ideas and proposals, of course they don't need to, because none of them will affect them, they will be safe and secure in their own private little world, isolated from the reality that affects normal people.
Fight and kill ISIS in Iraq and Syria - they who behead babies, men, women and children without exception (and i have seen some more of the atrocities perpetrated by these ISIS scum this evening- they deserve to be wiped out) and create a land for these immigrants and asylum seekers in safety there.
Many immigrants have a lot to contribute and many work very hard. The problem with EU directives is that they are worked out by a bunch of academics who don't have to implement their policies and they don't have to manage the communities which bear the brunt of their decisions.