If we could stop the need for them coming, we could fund it from reducing border control processes that are clearly just for show, and there's sure to be savings in immigrant processing/housing/welfare/repatriation costs that everyone seems so flag wavy about.
It's called soft power. It's a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run, but it's clearly a hard sell to people who think every problem can be solved with a 20mm cannon.
(, Thu 23 Oct 2025, 10:26, Reply)