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The Asylum Delusion: How Britain's Political Class Abandoned Both Refugees and Voters

• via The Economist

The Asylum Delusion: How Britain's Political Class Abandoned Both Refugees and Voters

The Economist's Asylum Proposal

The Economist's proposal to "scrap the asylum system" represents the final capitulation of Western liberalism to its own failures. After decades of mismanaging migration policy, the establishment now proposes to abandon the 1951 Refugee Convention entirely—not to create something genuinely better, but to legitimise what they've already been doing: turning desperate people into political pawns while pretending to care about both human rights and border control.