Saturday, 5 September 2015

Refugee crisis: What will the true cost of taking Syria's displaced be?

Telegraph
In March 2015, a Freedom of Information request revealed that the UK spends more than £700,000 a day housing and feeding asylum seekers – prompting representatives of Ukip and the Taxpayers’ alliance to complain that people were not being processed quickly enough. Once the cost of taking, say, 10,000 Syrian refugees is properly understood, we could see a political backlash against it. Where are the school places? The hospital beds? ......  But even if we help bring peace to Syria, we shouldn’t expect the Great Migration to stop. Because it’s about more than people fleeing immediate peril. It’s about a desire to economically better oneself and it’s made possible by a revolution in cheap communications...... Intellectuals and populists warn that huge transfers of populations are bound to change the culture of the country involved. That's the argument of Hungary's controversial premier, Viktor Orban, who has spoken of the erosion of Christian identity"

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