“.......we need to build more homes, for more people to rent at affordable prices....call them Council Housing if you like. It would provide much needed housing, give employment to our out-of-work construction workers, and provide for a good, solid housing infrastructure for the future.
Its what happened post-WW2 and it can happen again. It just needs political will.”
And money, Mikey, in true Socialist fashion you’ve forgotten the money. Which will come from er…er…??? “Giving employment” to out-of-work construction workers means paying them – with money. Buying bricks and mortar to build houses requires – money.
As naomi has pointed out, the children in Syria are just a small number of the millions across the world that live in danger, squalor and poverty. That’s life. Their parents choose to bring them into a dangerous, squalid, poverty stricken environment (those places did not degenerate from Utopia to cesspit in the nine months between conception and birth). The best thing they can do to ease the suffering of their children is to lay off knocking out so many of them for a while until their nations become fit for human habitation. This would also help with the huge over population time bomb that threatens the world to a far greater degree than so-called Global Warming ever will. These dispossessed children are an early symptom of that threat and it is not up to European nations to sort it out even if they could (which they cannot, without placing the wellbeing of those already here in great jeopardy).