Jeffrey, I would like to take you to task over your statement that Northern European countries want their society to remain cohesive and indigenous and to coin your term "They like their society; they just don’t want newcomers."



I think this is disingenuous because I think the truth of the matter is no society minds if an immigrant moves to another country, gets involved, works hard, fits in and contributes. Apart from racially segregated countries like Saudi Arabia, Japan and perhaps China most countries of the world value contributing migrants and new ideas.



The problem we have had in Europe is that many of these migrants, are hopelessly out of their depth, in terms of education; cultural identity; work ethic; educational level; and religious restrictions which have made many of the new "migrants" unable to take on the usual role of a migrant.



Added to that, it is clear that knowing (as many of these inward looking communities do) that they won't fit in and they won't get much of a the better life they are looking for, they have deliberately targeted Northern European countries because it is in those countries the most generous welfare and social provision is provided and knowing that much of the mainstream society are content not to integrate with these minority groups they can be pretty confident they will have plenty of taxpayer funds to live pretty much how they wish without having any obligation to integrate or contribute.



What you are seeing in places like Northern Europe is a kick back on freeloaders from outside their nations, who are themselves "cherry picking" where they aim for as a "refugee" or as a "migrant" - the bottom line is they have families, have set up religious communities and a parallel community and wish to bring other members of their communities out adding more burden to the host community who (finally) feel they are getting very little out of this situation.



The New Abnormal I would hasten to suggest, is the end game of the failed "multicultural" paradigm which the EU and the soft left have been peddling for the last 25 years which has ended in complete and abject failure. It has created welfare dependant isolated and increasingly loathed inward looking and living communities, who are supported by mainstream society but make it very plain indeed they do not wish to become a part of such a society .



We now have huge problems in Europe, where people who have been given safe haven, new lives, welfare and education simply throw it back in our faces and commit appalling acts of societal damage and these are now happening on a weekly basis.



Mainstream Europe have had enough. This is why there is very little support for Syrian Refugees and no interest in spreading these people around Europe - we have already seen what can happen and we don't want it. This New Abnormal is a political problem, borne from lack of consultation with communities in the execution of foreign policies. It is putting the so called human rights and needs of people who could well have created their own problems, ahead of the needs and taxpayers of European Countries.



The UN is not an institution that should lecture the people of Europe on populism, having been responsible for the waste and poor deployment of vast amounts of Aid funds with (let's face it) very little to show for it. Long term projects to rebuild communities is only very latterly been something the UK has worked to effect, meanwhile the billions of aid that has been syphoned off over the decades leaves the UN charged with incompetence and if exhausted and fed up donors start to reject the "old normal" and start to question what these agencies have been doing with their cash then that is no bad thing.



The days of us stealing qualified immigrants for the benefit of the west is a zero sum game for these destabilised nations and continuing to attract the best and the most educated so they revert to poverty and misery is not an ethical policy any country let alone the UN should be endorsing.



We have to find a fair; ethical and affordable new model. The New Abnormal is the state we are in until we transition - how we transition and what we transition to is on the table to be debated and argued about - but one thing is for sure we are not going back and all countries have to start being more accountable; work harder and be more responsible and not expect the west to keep filling the begging bowl - those days must come to an end.