Refugees

How has this tragedy come about ?

• Western interference around the world, primarily the US, and the UK with Russia and China not far behind has created power vacuums from Afghanistan through to Iraq and Libya. In the past our interference lay mostly in the provision of weapons as these wars helped to finance our armament industries. We supplied Iraq with weapons during their war with Iran. We supplied weapons to Afghan tribesmen in their war with Russia.
• After 9/11 we extended our power through invasion of all these countries with “boots on the ground”. This has achieved nothing except to destabilise these countries by the removal of dictators leaving them ripe for takeover by various warring factions.
• ISIS – we have now spawned ISIS and their reach has spread through the middle east, North Africa and Central Africa. They are an extreme form of Islam with a rabid hatred of the West and Israel and use violence to spread their creed in the form of slavery, rape, torture, crucifixions, beheadings, and burning people alive.
• Russia is now taking direct action and bombing the “enemy” in Syria as well as extending their reach into the Middle East. This has now had the effect of dramatically increasing the flow of people to the EU.
• The EU is the only place of safety given that Saudi Arabia is standing well back from the crisis. However, The EU has its own problems namely the creation of the Eurozone which locked together the currencies of many countries into a one-size fits all currency called the Euro. Unfortunately the one size did not fit all thus creating areas such as Greece which will never recover from their financial demise. Add to this that the EU has extended its power base to include the old Eastern bloc countries of the Russian Empire. They all had failed economies resulting in a huge numbers transferring to Germany, France and the UK. Open borders enabled them to take advantage of our more prosperous economies especially welfare, NHS, housing and education – hence the term economic migrant.
• Refugees – economic migrants have now been added to by people fleeing to the EU, initially from Syria and Iraq but now from Africa and parts of Asia. The movement of people is biblical amounting to hundreds of thousands.
• Merkel – she has created a huge acceleration of people by offering to take 800,000 people into Germany. She did not consult her own people, nor the other members of the EU. To date Germany has taken around nearly 1m refugees/economic migrants. Merkel clearly did not think about the logistics and how people were going to have to travel from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and finally Germany. She also gave no thought to the effect on German infrastructure and has given a huge impetus to the rise of their far right parties.
• Turkey – the EU have now offered cash bribes (£2.2bn) and easy to obtain visas to Turkey in order for them to hold back the refugees. Turkey has turned Merkel down and insisted on full membership of the EU for its 75m people. Merkel has quite clearly lost complete control of the plot.

This crisis will take decades to solve

The UK will need to play its part in assisting the Syrian refugees

However, it will need to play its part outside of the EU not within the EU which is being run by Merkel

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