As well as proving to be the most intractable challenge that Europe has faced for a generation, the current migrant crisis has also revealed the profound consequences of gesture politics.
For we are now told that the cost of every Syrian refugee who comes to Britain will be up to £24,000 each — a year.
These official figures imply a total bill for taxpayers of up to £2 billion for the 20,000 migrants that the Government has pledged to take in here over the next four years.
By their vain grandstanding, some of our EU partners — especially Germany’s Angela Merkel, who has said she would be happy to take 800,000 Syrian migrants in 2015 alone — have made the predicament much worse.
Their promises to open the door mean we are confronted by an unprecedented continental exodus, not just from Syria, but from countries such as Nigeria and Bangladesh. ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3282096/DANIEL-JOHNSON-know-true-cost-liberal-grandstanding.html#ixzz3pQqVH7PJ
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