http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/29/nigel-farage-syrian-refugees-uk

Clever man...

Nigel Farage is calling on the government to start admitting refugees fleeing the fighting in Syria into Britain.

The Ukip leader, who has been at the forefront of the opposition to allowing migrants from Bulgaria and Romania unfettered access to the UK, said the position of those displaced by conflict was very different.

"I think refugees are a very different thing to economic migration and I think that this country should honour the spirit of the 1951 declaration on refugee status that was agreed," he told BBC News.

"It was agreed with the UN and even through the European court, which sadly has changed its role. But the original ideas of defining what a refugee is were good ones.

"I think actually there is a responsibility on all of us in the free west to try and help some of those people in Syria fleeing literally in fear of their lives."

That's how the politics of division works. You start by forcing worthy / unworthy categories, then you tighten your terms so that less and less people are worthy. It's xenophobia that you can quite easily get people who think they are reasonable to agree with.

i have no xenophobia, but ...

i am really totally feed up of these free loaders ...

quite so.