bookhunter2007
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In response to cee-dee

‎25-06-2015 4:30 PM

@cee-dee wrote:
The thread has been off-topic all over the place and somehow climate change has been one of the points raised. What climate change has got to do with the migrant situation I don't know

Quite a bit. And most certainly will affect migration patterns in the future.

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought/

 

@cee-dee wrote:
 

These migrants are heading for the UK because it seems likely that they've been told (by using the benefits of modern communications) that the UK is the land of Milk and Honey where the fools give you money and houses for nothing.

Do you have any evidence of this?

 

This evidence suggests otherwise:

 

"The majority of respondents (around three quarters) had no knowledge of welfare benefits and support before coming to the UK. Most came from countries lacking well-developed welfare systems and had no expectation that they would be supported."
 
@cee-dee wrote:
If they were merely escaping some form of persecution, wouldn't you think that the first place of refuge that they got to would have been their safe haven?

If you read my link above, most do. i.e. Hundreds of thousands fleeing the Iraq War ended up in Syria - Of which we are now seeing the knock-on effect of..

 

Also, people seek asylum in other Countries in the World. Germany for example receives far, far more applications than the UK. Even Sweden has more than double the applications that the UK has.

 

http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Refugee-support/Refugee-facts-and-figures

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