"mind-made-up"
You seem not to have noticed, but everybody's mind is made up on the Empire Mike, even the old colonel sitting in his deckchair with his whiskey and soda, dreaming of the Imperial glory days and yearning for the chukka to pull of his boots and service the memsahib when the going gets tough - is dead and gone now, nevermore to return.
You really are an anachronism, Mike.   
The Empire is a part of Britain's chequered past - all we have left are the trails of wreckage we left in our wake.
Britain is committed to dealing with these refugees on several levels:
For the part is has played in making their home countries what they are.
For the damage still being caused by unethical trading, arms sales and the support given to dictators and mass murderers: the agreement with reached with the E.U. on open borders: and then, of course, there's the moral duty to assist people when they are in trouble.
I wonder what would have happened if the post war British Government had treated Holocaust survivors in the way these people are being treated - shutting them out and treating them as criminals, scroungers and potential terrorists.
It doesn't bear thinking about.
Jim Carroll