Do not accept any more asylum seekers or refugees into the UK. · petition

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:

Refuse asylum seekers & remove support for so called refugee migrants in the UK, or Stop uncontrolled immigration, stop illegal migrants, stop asylum seekers

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

Timeline

4 Sep 2015	Petition opened for signatures
9 Sep 2015	Rejected by the Petitions Committee