Britain has agreed to take 20,000 refugees over the next five years. Germany is expecting to welcome 40,000 this weekend.
Britain can ague that it takes more EU migrants than any other country in the EU, that its population is growing faster than Germany’s and that it gives more aid to refugees in Syria and surrounding countries than the whole of the EU put together. All of which is true, but as things stand at the moment, that is not the point. The point is these multitudes are on the move because of the policies pursued by the West which have destroyed the fabric of life in their homelands. Britain has been at the forefront of the foreign and military policies which have brought about this spectacular disaster. So maybe not as many a Germany but better than the tiny drop in the ocean of human distress which thus far we have on offer.