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The pictures of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found washed up on a beach in Antalya, Turkey, appear to have (finally) brought it home to the British commentariat that more must be done to help those refugees currently fleeing from war and dictatorship.
As such, David Cameron is coming under increasing pressure to let in more refugees. Up to now the prime minister has responded that Britain is doing a great deal to help refugees – but by spending money on aid to be sent to the areas where people are fleeing in the first place.
But are the prime minister’s critics right – should Britain take in more refugees? Or is Britain, as the PM likes to point out, already doing its bit?
Have your say – the results of the poll will be published early next week.
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94 Responses to “Poll: Should Britain take in more refugees?”
Gordon toneou
Are you deliberately being obtuse? Out of everything I wrote this is the only thing you comment on? Everything you’ve stated above tells me how blinkered some people can be, yeah lets let everyone in and the economy will go boom and everything will be OK, at what cost? Where did you study Economics? Play school? Wake up and try to understand what will actually happen if this or any other country lets a massive amount of immigrants in. The Government this, the Government that, yes successive Governments have made a hash of things but we cant do anything about that right now can we? What we can do is not overrun the country making it impossible for all but the super rich to have anything like a normal life. Go to any area you like which has had immigrants dumped on them and ask the residents what they think.
David McKendrick
How many is “a massive amount”? I think 850,000 have crossed the Med this year. So the European population outnumber them by about 874 to 1. Speaking of large numbers there were 327,000 Emigrants FROM UK last year and over 624,000 people immigrated to the UK in the year ending September 2014. Despite these 624,000 legal immigrants our economy doesn’t seem to have collapsed despite my allegedly poor grasp of economics.
bobrob22
There seems to be something of a Gordon Brown bigoted woman attitude from some people on here. The party ignores what ordinary people feel at its peril
mr_fatty
How can you be sick of something you clearly know nothing about? Get your nose out of The Sun/The Daily Mail, get yourself down to the public library and look up some facts instead.
You can’t blame migrants/immigrants/refugees for the lack of social housing. The cause is (a) successive right-wing governments selling off existing housing stock to private ownership and (b) underfunding any new builds, or just leaving the job to private finance initiatives. Now if the rich could be made to pay the taxes they owe, there could be housing for everyone, and a fully functioning NHS.
clair hugs
your name says it all plonker