The 20,000 Syrians who will come to the UK over the next 5 years will not begin to satisfy the likes of Yvette Cooper and some left-wingers who seemingly want open access for the world's suffering people.

Yes, relative to where they used to be.

Edited by leggedstruggle (09 Sep 2015 11.51am)

Who are these left wingers who want open access. I thought they wanted the UK to consider people for Asylum who had fled Syria. That isn't open access. The UK turns down 59% of Asylum Applications.

Its not just the left wing. I noticed that a right wing government has being providing money to Syrian refugee relief and already given 5155 Syrians Asylum since the war started.

Have the Conservative party become left wing?

A foreign heritage. So that's the issue, people with a foreign heritage are more likely, but incredibly unlikely, to be or become terrorists. Of course people with foreign heritage also end up joining the army, police (in fact far more do than become terrorists). But we should always focus on the negative aspect, rather than be realistic and look at it as a comparison.

Lee Rigby was murdered, by two British citizens, who converted to fundamentalist Islam. Its a tragedy, and rightly demonized, the issue I had with how quickly it was co-opted by the far right and certain media elements as being anything other than a very unusual, and uncommon event, into a cause of anti-migration and anti-Muslim propaganda.

Both prior to this were Christians (as was one of the July 7th terrorists) maybe we should consider Christians a risk? Nearly all of the UK Islamist terrorist murders in the UK, have involved someone who converted from Christianity. Of course we shouldn't it would be as absurd as basing any kind of policy decision about foreign heritage as being linked to terrorism.

Its also worth noting, that its an assumption that many of those fleeing Syria are Muslims.

The risk of IS infiltrating as refugees should be considered, obviously, but in terms of getting people into the UK, its a very poor tactic, given we believe 500-1000 British citizens are currently part of IS, and could fairly easily come back to the UK (being british, having passports etc). I suspect a large percentage are unknown to the authorities as being in Syria.

Plus the waiting isn't condusive to IS tactics (which tend not to be very long term elaborate plans like Al-Qaeda, but short term and based around people who've returned from IS territory). They could be in refugee camps for several years before being sent to a country which even then is unlikely to be a country involved in the bombing).