Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
I'm very sure that if the UK had a land border with a country that had refugees, all the people arguing "first safe haven" would instead be arguing "European countries should work with each other to share it out"

It's NIMBY and isn't fooling anyone.
Well quite.

I still can't see the issue with letting them all in.

The cornerstone of our legal system is that its better to let 10 guilty men go free than punish one innocent man.

If they are asylum seekers, then we need to help them. If they turn out to be economic migrants then so what.

We should have asylum centres on the French side. Anyone processed there has a right to entry.