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They are not going to stop attempting these crossings. They will only increase as violence, political instability and climate change takes it toll. The vast majority of refugees are taken in by neighbouring, developing countries. Only an international effort by the developed world has a...

Hi Jen, think you are in my brew club. Royal County?

A well researched piece on the short falls of the UK asylum seeking process, with a lovely quote from an asylum seeker. https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2022/06/21/refugee-week-how-can-we-improve-the-asylum-system/ CloseSubscribe By Email UCL Home Prospective students Current students Staff Gi...

Is that what you did? Apologies, I thought you just copy/pasted articles

7 reasons people risk their lives to cross the Channel In November 2021, 27 people, including three children and a pregnant woman, tragically drowned in the English Channel. Others are still missing. This is still the highest number of deaths on record in one attempted crossing. The growing...

The result of that would be that the UK would receive absolutely no asylum seekers whatsoever. You realise you can only claim asylum in the UK on you are on British soil.

What's your theory whats happening

Probably low skill jobs, Prime Minister, Home Secretary or Editor of the Daily Mail spring to mind

What makes the United Kingdom such an important destination for migrants? • Eyes on Europe

I always get court and Convention mixed up. The same way I mix up Suella Braverman with that freaky Japanese girl from The Ring

As a teenager, I worked summer holidays and weekends all year round picking vegetables. Cabbages, turnips, Brussels sprouts and yes, even the cauliflower. Wonderful job in summer, pretty miserable at 7am in December. The European Court of Human Rights pre-date the European Union and the UK...

Well, they will now, as you are no longer an EU citizen

No need for all caps. Perhaps, if the UK allowed asylum seekers to seek asylum outside the mainland UK, you may seek reduction of desperate people making crossings on rubber dinghies.

Neither yes nor no. Just copy/paste

So they stay in mainland Europe and not go to the UK, full-stop. Is that your argument?

To apply for asylum in the UK, you must be on UK soil. You cannot apply for UK asylum outside the UK jurisdiction. Clever one that.

Any issue regarding ethics and doing the right thing, I always fall back on my favourite quote from Abraham Lincoln "One should always listen to the better angels of our nature and stop reading the Daily Mail."

That is what happens already. If your asylum claim and all appeals are refused you need to leave the UK From the UK law society https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/public/for-public-visitors/common-legal-issues/claiming-asylum

These people are seeking asylum. They make a case that their lives are in danger if they return to their country of origin. Then the UK authorities process the claim. Different from ditching off to the States or Australia to work on a building site

According to the UK red cross, the UK receives less asylum seekers than Germany, France or Spain. Has other interesting stats also...