The issue with asylum, apart from security, is that it is a virtually infinite process of increasing numbers.

We cannot wait for a crisis before we make wise decisions. The idea that the planet cannot sustain the population, who will be increasingly stressed by famine, weather and warfare, is one we will have to get used to. We must avoid being the victims of it for as long as possible. We can't save everyone.

You, hedgehog and Stirling can take 1,000 each.

What a load of rhetorical and emotive grandstanding and hogwash to boot.

Refugees should be housed in the nearest safe country, which is also likely to be culturally compatible.
We should not take any although I do agree we should divert some of our huge foreign aid budget to supporting the countries such as Turkey which have taken in refugees.
Why have not a single one of the oil rich arab states taken in any of their fellow muslim refugees. Answer: They don't want them there so why should we take them?

Permanently taking in such refugees in large numbers will only import the same problems that the refugees themselves are fleeing from. We have a responsibility to future generations of our own people to keep the country a pleasant and safe place to live and to remain a civilised, peaceful first world secular country.

Responsibility to help fellow humans? Sure, with financial aid but not at the expense of the above things we take for granted.

The age of Farage and Trump is truly here judging by the answers from the reasonable right expressed here. You do not need to be socialist to agree with all that nick gusset has written,it saddens me that so many are finding the view of the far right attractive and fail to empathise or attempt to understand the situation of others less fortunate.

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