Comments on: Weekly survey: Just a third of LFF readers think the UK should take more refugees

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:16:00 +0000

It would be a more difficult survey to do, but you should ask readers first to identify how many refugees they think Britain should take, and in a second question give the current figure. Otherwise you risk people having inaccurate notions of how many refugees we’re accepting.

By: John B Dick

John B Dick — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:34:00 +0000

I live on an island in Argyll.

Local politicians and churches here are gearing up to handle a significant influx. A hundred or so would not be a difficult challenge to housing schools or health. Our share of 20,000 over 5 years is 2.

Over five years we could easily take a hundred times our share and they would hardly be noticed. Argyll could take the lot.

By: Mike Stallard

Mike Stallard — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:15:00 +0000

In reply to Cole.

“right wing nutters”.
Well that’s sorted.

By: Mike Stallard

Mike Stallard — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:14:00 +0000

I do not agree with what the government is doing in a lot of things, but it has got this one completely right. Accepting lots and lots of Syrian and other refugees, young men on their gap year travelling the world (I have met them), people running away from modern Africa – does not make sense. A lot of them simply are not going to fit in. Much better to keep them in the place where they feel at home feed, educate and give medical succour there.
I notice that the Germans, at the moment top of the “compassionate” league by a long way, are storing immigrants in what we would call reception centres. They are not all going to good homes by any stretch of the imagination. And they, being human, are creating a terrible backlash when the refugees realise they have been tricked.

By: C A

C A — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:54:00 +0000

In reply to Yvonne Lunde-andreassen. Thank you.

By: Yvonne Lunde-andreassen

Yvonne Lunde-andreassen — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:25:00 +0000

In reply to C A. what about the ones who have stayed in Syria, who cares about them ? raqqa-sl.com/en

By: C A

C A — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:19:00 +0000

In reply to jj. Let the oil rich Arabs look after persecuted Muslims. Turkey can process them and we can make provision for them there. Let the Ummah look after them. The real vulnerable non-Muslims that have been decimated for years need can seek refuge here. That makes sense not a more Mohammeds and Ahmeds.

By: Cole

Cole — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:32:00 +0000

In reply to jj. Probably because only the right wing nutters who post comments here could be bothered to participate in the survey.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:51:00 +0000

Strange, and this is LFF readers, who are far more likely to be all for more refugees when compared to the general population. It seems your numerous articles are at odds with public opinion?
I’m all for taking in more refugees, and I think the governments stance on this issue is perfectly reasonable