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Hold David Cameron to his word, a cap of no more than 20,000 refugees in the UK.

Closed 107 signatures

What the petition asks

Our PM will take in 20,000 refugees from Syrian bordering refugee camps. The PM is under pressure to accept more, including those travelling illegally through the EU. We must ensure this does not happen. Our own nationals face dire conditions daily on our streets, veterans for one who need our help.
Our PM has already gone back on his word of decreasing migration. However, there are genuine asylum seekers who are desperately fleeing for their lives, we do need to help these genuine families. 20,000 is a generous amount. We can't save the world and we most certainly should not be accepting economic migrants who are travelling illegally through many safe countries, rioting & causing chaos to get to a richer country of their choice, these are not the actions of people fleeing for their lives.

Timeline

10 Sep 2015 Petition opened for signatures
10 Mar 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 107
Status Closed
Opened 10 Sep 2015
Closed 10 Mar 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.