Like you, I don't know if the people depicted are asylum seekers refugees or economic migrants. What was it that made you assume that the people in the picture where refugees? Was it because the word refugee is more emotive than the word immigrant? Were you deliberately trying to blur the line in the hope that you could claim that Farage wants to turn his back on those in genuine need? Was that it?
My interpretation is that the picture was used to illustrate the fact that there are currently large numbers of people on the move from one country to another. When people move in the numbers that we are currently seeing, it does not allow the countries who receive them to grow their population naturally through a steady increase in birthrate. This inevitably puts an un-natural and on un-planned pressure on services and infrastructure. I think we are seeing this pressure in doctors waiting rooms, school classroom sizes, and social service type activities being unable to cope with a rapidly rising work load. This I would call a route to breaking point unless some form of population control is implemented.
We cannot take in every single person that wants to come to this country. The fairest way to put in place controls to allow people to move here based on merit. That may be skills based, genuine asylum or other specified factor. In a nutshell, what I am saying is that controls need to be put in place and the current chaotic system ended.
I don't know if leaving the EU will achieve this, but as things stand today continued membership doesn't seem to offer much hope. I can't see the logic in continuing along a path that has failed to deliver. Whenever I meet a problem in life, I try something else. If that doesn't work I'll try a different approach and I think that is what the EU referendum offers, a chance to try something else.
Immigration is a big concern to a karge section of the population, many of who are recent immigrants into the UK. I know that a similar number of people share the opposite view, but that does not mean that it is racist or wrong to hold these concerns.
David Cameron, rightly or wrongly, pledged to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands. That was popular. Hiwever, he has failed in the most spectacular and high profile of ways. People see this and believe that he has failed because of the EU.
In simple numbers terms, we are trying to put 6 Litres into a 5 Litre can. It doesn't fit. People will tell us that other countries have taken more immigrants and refugees per head of population than the UK, but countries like Germany and France have a 10 Litre cans and bigger, but I suspect they are still experiencing similar strains on their services and infrastructure to us.
