A predictable response from you OTB. Why on earth would I take anyone in when I pay my taxes to the Government to run refugee programs?

Do you honestly think that the bulk of Syrians escaping that war in their own country are 'economic migrants'?
There have been many thousands of civilian deaths and the place is bombed to hell.
How stupid you are.

Yes CHERFUL, the reef has been trained to die on command, every time the academics in the sheltered workshops around Townsville, AIMS, James Cook, & the GB Marine Park Authority, want more in grant money.

Just travel a hundred or so miles through any part of the reef, & you can find little areas of disaster suitable for horror films for the evening news.

And don't get the idea many of them spend much time out the reef. When I have taken groups of them out the reef, as I did regularly, most of them were more seasick than the tourists we had on board. They obviously rarely went anywhere near boats, even large ones.

Suse, if there are that many of them, 50 million is it, & they are worth bothering with, they will be going home to take their country back. If they are too gutless & useless to do that for themselves & their kids, they are definitely too useless to be let in here. We have quite enough dropkicks of our own, without importing any of the useless.

Suze,

While the majority of Syrians are genuine refugees, the majority of "Asylum seekers" entering the EU are not even from Syria.

The problem facing the EU is that the immigration policies so favour illegal immigrants that even those that are clearly not refugees are nearly impossible to repatriate. Secondly, once they get residence they then want to bring in an extended family.

Economic migrants should be repatriated immediately, and a TPV will ensure that refugee criminals can be booted out immediately or once the war stops.

The current migration problem in Europe has given a warning of what
is coming in the next few years. It has given Europe the opportunity
to get its policies into a state to handle the much larger migration
events to come.

Many middle east countries are living on the profits on oil.
They subsidise the cost of fuel and food and provide uneconomic work
and social services to their populations.
Their populations have increased to take up the available resources.

Withe the end of cheap oil and declining production these countries
are moving into a period of financial deficit.
This is resulting in increasing food prices.
It was the protests about food prices that were mistaken for the Arab Spring.

Watch Egypt, It has to get rid of some 40 million people.

Already Saudi Arabia is feeling the crunch, and we never thought that
we would hear of that country worrying about money, did we ?
It is a country with some 60% plus of its population under 30 and
basically unemployed. Their population has risen to levels that are
unsubstainable if their oil income declines.

It all signals more war for resources, water and good land, and
the ability to feed their elevated numbers.

Where do you think they will go ? Africa, Iran, Pakistan, India,
perhaps central Asia or perhaps Europe.

Susie--on-line

It goes back to why they are refugees doesn't it?
one woman Who was 37years old had 11children.

I kept hearing this over and over, 7children,at least 4 or 5 for most families.
this is the reason they stormed Damascus, an inability to feed their
children. Assad hit back, hard, in defence of Damascus and the people
there. Europe is not responsible for their overbreeding,
you remember, the 7billion people and rising out there. Of course this will result
In war and refugees.

If someone comes to your door, begging for food and aid, yes, you
would gladly help them, for a length of time. But when they are still
coming to your door, 50years later. You have to ask,what their problem is
and why the hell they don't fix the problem?
Some contraception and less Muslim religion might be a start.

Hasbeen, <the reef has been trained to die on command>

That's so funny.

You are dead right.