The Pope visits Lesbos today, The Archbishop of Athens attends, Tsipras has little choice, Bernie Saunders crosses the Atlantic
Lesbos was quoted to have a population in 2011 of 86,436
Since the Refugee crisis started:
Lesbos has borne the brunt of the refugee influx with over 850,000 of the 1.1 million Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis who streamed into Europe last year, coming through the island
How does it manage it
Well here is quote from a resident
“Outside my door the media has turned my home into a reality show while I struggle to make a living and face huge difficulties in supporting my family. People here are slowly falling apart attempting to survive. I don’t know if I can stay here.”
Things fall apart; Lesbos cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats 1920
From the Telegraph (of all papers)
David Cameron has rejected calls for Britain to take 3,000 orphaned child refugees who have made their way to Europe amid concerns that it could encourage more of them to make the dangerous journey
At the Conservative Party conference
Britain “would be overwhelmed” if it opened its door to every refugee, Prime Minister David Cameron has said as he defended his position on how he plans to deal with the growing crisis….Mr Cameron told …in his keynote speech that he found it “impossible to get the image of that poor Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi out of my mind”.
And yet Greece is broke
While Cameron / Osborne continue to claim the UK is booming in Europe
Even if the UK took all the refugees its population would only increase by 2%
At least one bright light – Merkel puts HER own job on the line
Germany To Strip Job Protection From Citizens To Make Room For Refugees
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