Why would some migrants / refugees / asylum seekers prefer to get to the UK as opposed to any of the other countries in the EU (of which the UK used to be a member)?
There's never an answer to this.
These '
refugees' flee the war torn country they are persecuted in, arrive in safe Europe where they have the choice of settling in any number of nice warm countries, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, or economically prosperous countries such as Germany.
But no, they don't want to stay there, they want to risk their lives in rubber dinghies heading for Britain, where the weather is dreadful, housing is expensive, knife crime is rife & the country is full of anti immigrant racists.
I notice a record number of 'refugees' fleeing the horrors of war & persecution in continental Europe, drowned in the channel this week.
It has been described as a
tragedy.
I think the bigger tragedy is that it doesn't happen to more of them.