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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I suggest there's a whole planet out there, with bigger and emptier countries than ours, and there's no reason we should take the burden at all.

Turkey was number 1 for taking 2.4 million Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani and Somalian refugees. Lebanon opened its doors to 1 million and Jordan took 665,000. Germany 749,309, Italy and Greece took 355,361 and the US took 559,37O. We took 168,978 and turned away a further 21,000 applications for asylum.

Yes, yes, we are only a small island but The Geneva Convention is a a United Nations agreement that the UK is signed up to and so long as we are part of the UN and we will be when we leave the EU, we are still obliged to take what the UN decide is our quota.