@HebrideanHecate My pet theory is that it's a UN directive or something similar. The UK is *obliged* to import anyone who rocks up on pain of *exclusion from the global community,* a fine, or some such *legal* sanction. This offers the government a get out clause; we can't turn them away because *laws* or some variation thereof so they can pretend that they are only doing it under pain of sanction rather than admit that they're totally on board with the globalist agenda. I also think there's more than a dash of useful idiots and true believers in the civil service who consider it their moral duty to import as many *oppressed asylum seekers* as possible, especially in the face of the *racist gammon* who don't want them.