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Many people have insulated themselves from the very real refugee crisis…terrible but no great surprise.
Far right and hard liners who believe illegal immigrants only take the risk because they want a free ride from the taxpayer for life and who scoff and refuse to listen when you try and explain that they are in fact escaping the ensuing chaos and terror of their home land.

Why don’t they stay in the first safe country? Most of them do. Turkey is deemed the first safe country for Syrians to reach and Turkey already hosts over 3 million refugees but the refugees in Turkey are refused work permits and only 45% of the children are getting any form of education. There’s a further million in Lebanon and 1.5 million in Saudi Arabia. Qatar and Oman. Another 800,00 in Egypt and Jordan. The people fleeing to Britain are merely a trickle in comparison to these other countries.

The UK will always be an attractive place to people fleeing war, persecution, poverty and starvation but for this problem to be resolved; gleefully uninformed sanctimonious finger pointing is the first thing that needs to stop.

Instead of having an extraordinarily harsh response to refugees, try having a little compassion (it is Christmas after all).