Loving ones neighbour.... Allowing all these immigrants into this country can only undermine our country and cause even more poverty amongst our poorest and disabled and elderly people.
It doesn't need to, but there is a significant risk that these would be the groups most disproportionately affected, yes. However, the 'poverty' in Britain is of a different magnitude and scale to that in places like North Africa. Poverty here is earning less than 60% of the average wage, that's disproportionately raised by the extremely high-earners in this countries.
Imagine a boat you just keep packing it with more people.
I don't need to imagine those boats, they're pushing off from the shores of North Africa all the time - they are obviously overloaded, obviously rickety, obviously unseaworthy - yet what lies behind is so atrocious that people still load their children into them. Why is that, do you think?
Why are people coming here.
Which 'here'? The UK, they aren't particularly, most of them are headed for Germany and Scandinavia. Europe - because it's where there is peace and hope and jobs and education and healthcare.
It is common sense that we save our own first then the rest of the world.
Science tells us that race is a myth - your own 'Good Samaritan' belies the idea that we look after our own first.
It is stupidity and foolish to think this country can keep everyone else in the world.
And no-one's suggesting that it should. What people are suggesting is that the world has room and resources enough for everyone, if certain nations weren't hoarding massive segments of it.
We have taken enough and done more than any other country already.
Done more than any other in what sense? We've not sold more weapons than everyone, nor taken more refugees and migrants. We've not sent more soldiers, nor given more overseas aid (although we are nearer the top of that measure than most).
It's not about whether we've done more than anyone else, Sass, it's about whether we've done enough, yet.
Let the rest of Europe and the World help them.
Large segments of Europe are, other segments aren't. The likes of Saudi, Kuwait and the like have done nothing, yet I doubt we'll see much in the way of complaints sent their way.
They don't want to go anywhere else because they won't get handouts in the same way as this country dishes it out.
Isn't Christianity supposed to value charity, Sass?
If they could get it in there own country would they be coming here.
Probably not, that's why they're leaving.
If our people went there would they be given help and handouts.
Get a reality check we cannot afford this anymore.
Why not, we're one of the five or six richest nations on the planet, we have more than enough resources to go round, if we make caring for people in trouble a priority.
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