Shrinking horizon, shrinking mind

The shrewish screams from the British government about asylum seekers is making me angry. Germany and Sweden are the most open societies in Europe at the moment. The Germans in fact are showing themselves to be true friends of liberty by taking close to a million asylum seekers compared to about 30,000 for the UK.
The UK is shrinking its horizons and closing its mind to all the suffering everywhere that we could do a little to alleviate by taking in some refugees.