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    Just withdraw from the 51 Convention.

    It was set up specifically to deal with European Refugees post WW2.

    It specifically excluded the problems with Indian Partition and 'Palestine'.

    It has grown like Topsy.

    UK was quite happy (before international travel became a 'thing') to accept a few
    'brave' people fleeing Communism. It was part of the cold war and propaganda.

    I well remember being called to Gatwick during the Tamil war. Three 747s, full of Singahelese and Tamils, all happy as Larry with each other, who had all managed to bribe the Sri Lankan staff to get out to the UK.

    There's loadsa people with a 'well founded fear of persecution', how many do you fancy?

    6000

    600000

    60000000 (the number of displaced persons?

    Bluntly it's too big for me to care.

    Sh1t happens. Always has done. Yup, pure chance made me here and who and where.

    WTF should I waste my time on some sort of wierd existentialist guilt for something I have done absolutely nothing to bring about?

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