the actual problem is that we're not willing to pay for the infrastructure

We are economically strong enough to take in loads of refugees (ffs, if Iraq can take 200k and Turkey can manage 1.8m, I think we can manage a few tens of thousands of the EU's current 400k influx).

There is also no particular reason why econoimic migrants are a bad thing either. Quite the opposite really, when you think that they tend to be well motivated and of working age, and would therefore be additional taxpayers and consumers and therefore would create demand that then supports jobs etc.

The problem is that we don't seem to want to build the extra houses, schools, hospital spaces and so on that would be needed (and which, incidentally, would benefit everyone else).

Too much NIMBYism and small mindedness around.

Posted By: CWC, Sep 3, 13:30:42