The Earl of Chesterfield said:
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There's the equally blatant hypocrisy of the same vultures demanding we all but 'let 'em drown' demanding we slash foreign aid, too. The tiny percentage of our national wealth spent on alleviating issues at source withdrawn whilst billions vanishes into the pockets of tory cronies. You have to be either mouth gapingly stupid or wilfully ignorant not to understand that simple connexion.
Nah, since the first homo sapiens ventured out of Africa folk've sought better lives. The modern world is infinitely more complicated given climate change - summat else those occupying the Trumpian Venn diagram nexus instantly forget - poverty and political persecution. So for all the Right's demonisation to deflect from their corruption - moral and financial - human beings will always cross borders.
Excellent point.
If you want to stop people coming here for a better life, then make their lives where they are now better!
Somalia. Fishermen having the waters stripped of fish stocks by huge factory trawlers turn to piracy to alleviate poverty. This leads to a huge rise in organised crime, gang warfare end even the collapse of government, warlords, civil war and mass migration. Hey, give aid, not cash to the pockets of corrupt dictators like Mugabi but to NGOs, stop overfishing and let them earn a legitimate living and, you know, you might just see a bit more stability, a higher standard of living and less desire to leave in the first place.
Do the opposite, ie, deny climate change, cut aid, further destabilise the region, and you don’t need to have a phd to work out what happens next.
If wealth, security and just plain fairness was distributed a bit more evenly there wouldn’t be these migrants trying to reach Europe by the tens of thousands. They be happy enough at home.