Germany ? Bullying other smaller countries? Surely not, I won't have it.

Did anyone see the sky news footage of the Hungarians putting up security fences? Jesus H Christ it was like listening to commentary of Simon Bates narrating the erection of a death/ concentration camp FFS.

When in fact all they where doing where securing points along the border were ILLEGAL immigrants where ILLEGALLY (there's that word again). The actual official entry point was still open, and yet it wasn’t being used ? interesting isn’t it, a perfectly legal and above board boarder control crossing not being used. Well in the words of one English speaking Syrian "refugee" (my arse) they didn’t want to cross legally as their finger prints would be taken.

So in his words, they would stay at the fence causing as much as a problem for the Hungarian authorities as possible until they removed the fence.

Now if that doesn’t make even the likes of UN special envoy for peace Mr Jamie Martin even a tad suspicious then I give up.

I know why they don’t want their finger prints taken, its because there is a central bank of over 73000 known terrorist finger prints, and I would imagine a few among their contingent have let it be known that no one will have their finger prints taken, or Allah will be very cross.

And at this rate there won't be anyone left in Syria by October.
Dodgey as f***, and making it harder to recognise the real cases of hardship and persicution.

I see your point but:
1. There is no chance that Free Movement will be suspended.
2. Those from the EU under the Free Movement scheme will, generally speaking, return home in due course.

The refugees that are taken on will eventually apply for full citizenship. No way will they want to return to Syria/Afghanistan etc after the fighting. As I have said before tracking them down and deporting them will be expensive and difficult.

That isn't represented in the data sets though, it seems that the UK migration rate is about 300,000 or so more than the UK emigration rates each year.

I'd see this as unsustainable, as any kind of long term strategy, especially given the impact it has had on wages in the UK (here the demand makes sense, given the strength of the pound against the Euro). Whilst I'm left wing, I see the use of the Free Movement as a means by which cheap labour has been shifted around the EU and has driven down wages for the working class and upper working classes (and to a lesser extent middle classes of the UK).

Refugees on the other hand traditionally do generally end up becoming long term citizens, I don't see a case where by they will be able to return to Syria, so the prospect of them becoming a cheap labour force that drives down wages doesn't exist. Admitedly, they'll have longer term costs in terms of health care, but also greater based UK spending and long term engagement, as well as providing a potential boon for the intelligence services - an influx of people who speak both English and Arabic, many of who have been driven out by groups such as IS. As a rule Refugees have a great history of integration and loyalty in their first two generations

The spike in Syrian refugees as boat migrants, has been driven particularly from the Syrian middle classes, which means that many potentially have useful skills and educational backgrounds.

In my view that's mostly an excellent post.

After an initial annoyance I think that Cameron has pretty much played the right card in this situation.

We should respect our long standing position on refugees. However, this country is in dire straits in terms of housing even its own inhabitants and national policies need to take account of realities on the ground.

Germany's population is going down......They need migrants but......after a couple of idealistic comments they are now obviously aware of the potential for swamping.

No country will operate policies that are significantly against there own self interest.

You mean on the basis that e.g. the US has done such a good job of controlling unregulated migration?