by St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:40 am
I'm far from a UKIPper, in fact I kinda detest that party, but I do think a harder line should have been taken when the aggression and disruption by those fleeing Syria started to become a real problem (like the Chunnel closures). Not that Syria is in Europe, so I dunno how exactly UKIP would fix it anyway.
On the other hand though, if the UK didn't have such a puppetmaster role in a lot of the shit that is happening in that part of the world, the citizens of these countries (which are presumably even worse now than when they were run by dictatorships) wouldn't be trying to run, probably.
The UK has a lot do with the subterfuge and financing/arming whichever faction looks friendliest/most useful at the time, but we're pretty much reading from the script that the USA tells us to, so part of me thinks we should take the hit on ticket costs and fly a portion of these asylum seekers over to the USA, just on the basis that if we (the UK/EU) have to deal with them, so should they, probably to even more of an extent. Will never happen though, and the asylum seekers probably wouldn't want it to either since they get more help in the EU.
It's all just one big mess really, though I think it is probably not as bad as it could be.
What I don't get though, is the UK really doesn't seem to be that great for people like that. From what I've read other EU countries are more generous in the benefits for these people, and being in the EU are gonna be a lot safer than wherever they are running from, so why do they SO want to come here so bad? Some other EU countries will have a climate closer to their hot ones than we do too. Is it because everyone has English as a second language, rather than German/French/Czech/whatever?