From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 18 - 07:53 AM
You do realise that you are talking about real, live, vulnerable human beings, people the same as you and me but a damn sight less lucky, do you, Nigel? People escaping from countries that we have either ruthlessly exploited in the past and left impoverished, people from countries that our foreign policy has completely screwed up, or both?

Yes, I do understand what refugees are.
I don't agree that this all stems from our foreign policy. Whether all refugees are from ex-British colonies, whether it is that colonial past (rather than more recent dictators / religious uprisings) which has caused their current problems.
Whether any of this is caused by trying to increase the population in lands which cannot cope with an increased population.

What I am not trying to do is belittle the suffering of these people, just clarify whether there is any justification to your claim that our (past) foreign policy is the sole (or even part) cause.