Walls

There was a short piece in yesterday's DT about how the EU and others are getting cross about a Hungarian plan to erect a tall fence, possibly topped with barbed wire, along their border with Serbia.

The piece also said that Hungary, a relatively poor country, is accommodating more immigrants per capita of its own population than any country in the union, apart from Sweden.

It seems quite likely to me that the rule of law might be a bit stretched in a place like Serbia and with one result being that large scale transit through Serbia of people from troubled parts south and east is entirely probable. Also entirely probable that any such fence will simply push the traffic through next door Romania, which has much longer borders with both Hungary and Serbia.

But I fail to see what the moral outrage is about. While the EU is failing to manage immigrants from said parts, it is clear that we can only cope with so much of it and management is needed. Unless we get our collective act together, countries on the front line like Italy and Hungary are going to take unilateral action.

Hopefully such outrage is not coming from the UK, rather more protected by the English Channel than our fellow Europeans are by lack of management. On the other hand, the possibility of such management, for reasons which I do not understand, is resulting in outrage coming from the UK. What is our problem with our doing our fair share? Not least because we are responsible, at least in part, for the various messes which are fuelling all this migration.