We know that making countries more hostile to asylum seekers does not work in the sense of deterring people from trying to come. If a country decides to ban asylum seekers from working while they are waiting for their claims to be heard, it's pretty clear that that has no effect on the number of asylum seekers trying to reach a country. And when you ask asylum seekers about why they are trying to come to britain, or to any other country, they don't come out with a whole long list of kind of bureaucratic procedure points. They say things like, well, i've heard of manesty united. I've heard of the queen, and my second cousin is living in london

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