Having read a few bits of BNP literature it seems that they acknowledge that there are people who's lives really are in danger, however believe that it is not the British taxpayers responsibility. To which I can imagine a lot of people saying "well, fair enough - a bit selfish, but fair enough".
While I don't want to present a 'solution' with my design, I do think that I want to promote some kind of compassion. We are a wealthy country, we can afford to help.
I want to show that we have the responsibility to take asylum seriously, not just because its a nice thing to do, but because we as a nation owe it to the world. There are so many ways that Britain has (directly or indirectly) fucked so many things up, and continues to do so.
Whether it African countries that Britain colonised, semi-westernised, and then left in a mess (Nigeria, Eritrea, etc). Whether its the conflict between Isreal and Palestine (and Isreal and Lebanon) because of the way that the Western backed Isreal oppresses Palestinians. More recently, we should also consider sweat-shop labour. Lets use Bangladesh as an example. The British people are perfectly content in buying clothes from Primark which takes full advantage of what the Foreign Office calls "the worst [country] for corrupuption" to make cheap clothes. However, it is completely different if a Bangladeshi wants protection from the corrupt government. In fact Bangladesh is on the 'Whitelist' a list of countries considered safe, meaning that an asylum claim from a citizen of a whitelisted country is considered unfounded (however the Foreign Office advises us not to travel to Bangladesh as it is a dangerous country).
Anyway, I have started collating my information on a world map. It is far from complete, but whitlisted countries are coloured white and listed on the right and countries whos citizens come the UK are coloured black and listed down the left.
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Oops, is it Hezballah, or Hezbollah...? I'll have to check up on that.
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