Submitted on Friday 4th September 2015
Rejected on Wednesday 9th September 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Do not accept any more asylum seekers or refugees into the UK.
We cannot accept more refugees. The UK is already overpopulated. The welfare benefit system is under acute strain and the available resources are not sufficient for many of our own people, including the disabled and the old. Social services are in many cases stretched to the point of collapse.
While nobody can deny the power and emotional impact of images of refugees fleeing war zones and the bodies of children on beaches, these images don't change the fact that we do not have the means to look after all of the people currently here, much less many thousands more. The UK is not in any way shirking its responsibilities, it is providing substantial amounts of money and support abroad for the refugee crisis. This should continue, but the passage of refugees into this country should not.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107142, or petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107117
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
You might also be interested to know that the House of Commons has been debating the refugee crisis in Europe this week.
- The Prime Minister made a statement on Monday 7 September and was questioned by MPs about it:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2015/september/statement-on-syria-refugees-and-counter-terrorism-7-september-2015/
- On Tuesday 8 September there was an emergency debate on the refugee crisis in Europe:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2015/september/emergency-debate-the-refugee-crisis-in-europe/
- A further debate on this subject is happening today (Wednesday 9 September):
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2015/september/mps-debate-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-mediterranean-and-europe/
You can watch House of Commons debates live at: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons
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