Syrian Refugee Priority

A large number of senior Clergy (84) presumably representing the less than 800,000 church-goers, have written a letter to the Prime Minister attacking Government policy on Syrian refugees.  The Bishop of Durham said it was "disheartening" that he had not received a "substantive reply."

In response, Michael Fallon correctly points out that "no other country in Europe was doing more in Syria than Britain."

Meanwhile, here at home, our righteous clergy might be better placed if they directed their influence to putting our own house in order before inviting more pressure upon our limited resources.  Unless, of course, their intervention assumes that the 80,000 of our children in care will be housed first and that something has already been done about a situation which sees one child admitted to care every 20 minutes!