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David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
announced on Friday that the United Kingdom will provide resettlement to "thousands more" Syrian refugees.
Cameron's pledge came following calls from European counterparts, human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
and charity organizations and some leading figures such as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
"Britannia will act with its head and heart [to find long-term solutions to the crisis]," Cameron told the media in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.
The refugees are expected to come from UN camps on the border with Syria, and not from among refugees in Europe already.
Earlier, the British premier had said that accepting more refugees into the UK was not the answer to the refugee crisis and claimed that the UK was doing its bit already.
In response to Cameron's earlier remarks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, said Thursday: "I am seriously concerned by the British prime minister's position that the UK should not provide protection to more refugees from the Middle East."
Muiznieks said that at the moment, the UK was doing much less than other European countries, like Germany or Sweden, which gave refuge to thousands of Syrians.
"Additional tragedies and shocking pictures could be avoided if politicians had the courage and determination to uphold human rights standards and common European values," the commissioner said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
British media coverage of the tragic deaths of two Syrian brothers -- three-year-old Aylan Kurdi and his five-year-old brother Galip -- caused public outcry.
The British premier said that "he was moved" with the photographs of two young brothers who were washed up to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
coast after their attempt to cross to a Greek island failed tragically in the sea.
A parliament petition asking the UK government to act to assist refugees is now signed by more than 350,000 people.
Petitions signed by more than 100,000 people can be debated at the parliament.
Germany was the largest recipient of new asylum claims in the EU in 2014, with an approximate 173,100 asylum applications.
The UK received 31,300 new applications for asylum by the end of 2014.
According to United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
, there are 1,938,999 registered refugees in Turkey alone as of August 25, 2015.