Last week the Green Party in Stroud wrote a letter calling on the government to do more to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in the EU by accepting its fair share of refugees – saying that Stroud could accept 10 people or three families to be homed he
THE Green Party’s suggestion that Stroud should take in refugees has evoked both praise and criticism.
Many agreed that, as a wealthy country, we should do what we can to help people fleeing war-ravaged nations. While others said that, as a nation with thousands of its own living on the breadline, we simply cannot cope with taking in even more people who will need handouts.
I stand by my support for the proposal. By equally distributing the refugees across Europe, we would be turning the daunting figure of 40,000 asylum seekers into 10 extra people for Stroud and so on.
It is an intelligent and humane way to help these fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who are so easily dismissed as just refugees.
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