The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES
MAINSTREAM media headlines over the last week lead us to believe that the biggest crisis in Britain is that 900 people want to seek asylum here.
It would be nice if this was the case. It is easily resolved by simply allowing people to apply for asylum in Britain. A smaller and much poorer country like Lebanon which is the size of Cornwall, and currently gripped by a humanitarian and political crisis, has a population of 5.9 million people, and 1.5 million of them are refugees.
Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita, amounting to 25 per cent of its population and equivalent to Britain welcoming over 16 million refugees. Let that sink in.
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