Agenda 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/23/stop-being-sentimental-about-child-refugees-says-tory-mp Stop being sentimental about child refugees, says Tory MP Pauline Elizabeth Latham OBE Pauline Elizabeth Latham, Conservative Party politician, the member of Parliament for Mid Derbyshire, adds her contribution to the debate on child refugees. How indicative her views are of Conservative government policy on this issue is not clear, but certainly her abhorrent remarks demonstrate a callous and uncaring demeanor to a tragic situation which the United Kingdom government and Latham, chooses to ignore. Latham went on to say that, "   if children were living in “rat-infested” shelters with no mattresses in Greece, that was not Britain’s concern. When it comes to indifference and insensitivity, conservative MP's have few equals.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-to-take-more-refugees-as-cameron-bows-to-pressure-after-more-than-100000-back-our-campaign-10485195.html Britain to take more refugees as Cameron bows to pressure David Cameron bows to pressure   Cameron "bows to pressure" and is expected to announce that Britain will accept more than a thousand refugees from UNHCR camps on the border of Syria. A "knee jerk" reaction forced upon him by public and political pressure, to a problem he should have been addressing for months. Even then, Cameron leaps to the wrong conclusion either by accident or more probably design, and fails to recognise the reality.    The refugees in the UNHCR camps on the borders of Syria, although not l iving in the lap of luxury, have the basic necessities of food, shelter, water, sanitation and medical care provided by the UN and other voluntary organisations.  Refugees wait to board a train at Budapest ...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/david-cameron-migration-crisis-will-not-be-solved-by-uk-taking-in-more-refugees David Cameron: Britain should not take more Middle East refugees David Cameron: "try to bring peace and stability to that part of the world". "Cameron insisted the best solution to the crisis was to bring peace and stability to the Middle East" It is indeed ironic, that Cameron should use this phraseology, at this time. It would appear that the vast majority of those refugees locked out from Budapest's Keleti  railway station, thousands more in Greece and Serbia and yet thousand more crossing the Mediterranean (and many being drowned in the process), are in fact from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.  Perhaps Cameron and other members of his government could explain how a long term solution, like bringing "peace and stability to the Middle East", will solve, or at least improve the current crisis, today or tomorr...