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yeah I wondered if it was international law rather than British law.

Surely you see that this is the problem though?

I guess it's a problem if you don't want to help refugees yeah.

I think the idea of being physically in the country you're applying for asylum is to keep countries from setting up an embassy in a country neighboring the refugee country, insisting applications come through there, and then the neighboring country having to look after the refugees while the target country processes their applications, which they could arguably then delay indefinitely.

This is an open border policy, just to stop people from taking ludicrous risks coming to the UK from a safe country. It would be an ever increasing flow of people, until one day we say "enough" and we're back to square one.

It's not open-border, that implies you approve all the applications. No-one is suggesting that, it's just about giving the opportunity to apply.

You don't know it would be ever-increasing. All you know is it would be more than we're taking now. There's not an infinite number of people trying to get into the UK.

If I threaten to swim to USA< should they come and collect me?

That's up to them really. If we're talking about a 2 hour ferry ride, that's different to me than a cross-ocean ride.