I know this comment was aimed at SI, but I think you have to look at things slightly deeper than that, and of course i accept not from SI's racist angle. Germany is about 1.5 times the size of of the UK. Germany's population has more or less not increased for some time, it even maybe on the decline. The population of the father land was about 80 million in 2013, the population of the UK is said to be at about 64 million and I would have a pure guess, nearing 70 million. The UK is the most densely populated land in Europe. Now some of my stats might not be completely accurate but it's not rocket science why Germany should be taking in substantially more refugees than us, actually in comparison to our density they probably aint taking in enough migrants but I'm not basing that on any financial or infrastructure viability to do so.