The mood has soured now, with parties across the political spectrum rushing to outbid one another on ways to curb irregular migration - ranging from cutting benefits to capping the number of people granted asylum.
You’re going to see more and more of this all over Europe. Nearly half a billion people have seen their quality of life drop in the last decade or so from the post 2008 austerity to the current post Covid inflation with governments seeming powerless to make anything better anymore, seeing their government then allow tons of new people in who need assistance, whether you understand their plight or not, rubs people the wrong way.
I know theres the argument that there’s plenty of money in the system to help all these people if it wasn’t being horded at the top bymillionaires and billionaires, but how we access that money is very complex and abstract and requires global cooperation that isn’t going to happen any time soon.
With countries pulling back on climate policies meaning climate change will continue to pick up leading to mass migration from no longer habitable equatorial areas, I fully expect to see guns on the beaches of the Mediterranean in my life time to push boats back.
I know it’s a horrible view of the future, but I don’t see anyone trying to find other solutions.
And there is a housing crisis in all these European countries these refugees want to go to. In my country refugees who have received their official refugee status get first priority in getting social housing. While the waiting lists grows larger by the year, because of the crisis. It’s no wonder that people have changed their tunes when it comes to the refugees.
The real problem is of course our short sighted governments who are only thinking of the next election. They are treating every refugee crisis like it is the last one. And only implement measures to deal with the current influx and not trying to make the entire system better for the future. Thus when a new wave of refugees arrives the government is overwhelmed by the refugees and is always scrambling to find shelter for them.
You’re going to see more and more of this all over Europe. Nearly half a billion people have seen their quality of life drop in the last decade or so from the post 2008 austerity to the current post Covid inflation with governments seeming powerless to make anything better anymore, seeing their government then allow tons of new people in who need assistance, whether you understand their plight or not, rubs people the wrong way.
I know theres the argument that there’s plenty of money in the system to help all these people if it wasn’t being horded at the top bymillionaires and billionaires, but how we access that money is very complex and abstract and requires global cooperation that isn’t going to happen any time soon.
With countries pulling back on climate policies meaning climate change will continue to pick up leading to mass migration from no longer habitable equatorial areas, I fully expect to see guns on the beaches of the Mediterranean in my life time to push boats back.
I know it’s a horrible view of the future, but I don’t see anyone trying to find other solutions.
And there is a housing crisis in all these European countries these refugees want to go to. In my country refugees who have received their official refugee status get first priority in getting social housing. While the waiting lists grows larger by the year, because of the crisis. It’s no wonder that people have changed their tunes when it comes to the refugees.
The real problem is of course our short sighted governments who are only thinking of the next election. They are treating every refugee crisis like it is the last one. And only implement measures to deal with the current influx and not trying to make the entire system better for the future. Thus when a new wave of refugees arrives the government is overwhelmed by the refugees and is always scrambling to find shelter for them.