nanna8
I have to admit it looks better than I expected and I didn’t expect gymnasiums . It looks like a Princess cruise line, albeit the economy class. I have to say, if it is anything like here, a lot of homeless people wouldn’t go in a hostel place because of the other people there who are sometimes violent and/ or drug affected - they feel safer in doorways rather than in the ‘shelters’ where things get stolen and people beat them up. Completely different issues from the refugees. At least I hope so.
Agree nana8. There are no 'frills' but it is providing the basic needs for human existence in a safe environment.
Faced with an ever-increasing number of migrants seeking asylum in the UK, we have to be both compassionate and realistic.
We have a system which is designed to help persecuted people and those suffering the effects of environmental disasters, and this system has to be sustainable.
As much as one might sympathise with an economic migrant and understand their motives - they are in effect abusing the system, and it will ultimately collapse if steps are not taken to deter them from exploiting it.
It's all very well to suggest that among these migrants will be much-needed doctors and engineers, there might well be, but there will also be uneducated migrants from poor countries and, again, as much as one can understand and sympathise with their motives in wanting a better life - this is not what the system was designed for.
Those that suggest we welcome anyone and everyone who want to come here with open arms are being as unrealistic as those who think we should just push the boats back and wash our hands of the whole migration problem.
We all know that immigration to our shores has been happening since it first became possible to move around from country to country. We have absorbed immigrants, and their culture(s) into our own.
If you are a refugee from, say, the war in Syria, and you are languishing in a refugee-camp in Jordan or Turkey, for months on end with no prospects, no work, no future - and decide to further migrate to Sweden / Germany or the UK - are you an asylum seeker or an economic migrant?
I don't know the answer, and I don't know the solution, but that's the reality, and that's why we need an integrated and co-ordinated Europe-wide and world-wide strategy to deal with the matter. Because the system has to be sustainable and we have to have the infrastructure to support it.
And if climate-change ultimately makes some parts of the world completely uninhabitable - then we really do have to have a plan. World-leaders are just not keeping up in any meaningful sense with the rapid change in environmental matters and geo-political events, maybe because they're too invested in their domestic popularity and too involved in internal squabbles.
I don't think my 'view' will be popular - with either those that are 'for' or those that are 'against', and I am looking at the issue from both a narrow, personal perspective as well as a wider, hopefully more objective one, but even so, there appears to be a 'narrative', and I don't think I've followed it. Also, of course, I'm no expert - and there are other posters who are far more involved and far more knowledgeable on this issue, so I'm prepare to be 'corrected'.
