[Osem]

We don't remove borders for the same reason that we don't let all and sundry move onto our land or into our homes, just because they want to. Anyone who feels differently and wishes to open up their personal borders and bank accounts is currently at liberty to do so and thereby do their bit for the homeless, desperate etc. Not only that, they can send every spare penny they have to the world's starving and needy if they so wish and thereby feel better about having so much when others have so little. How many people actually do any of that?

In an age where terrorism, people trafficking, drug crime etc. has probably never been worse, I'd have thought we need more stringent border controls not fewer. We also need to decide whether we're going to try to intervene and help in other countries or we just raise the drawbridge and let them get on with it. The latter isn't really an option so I think we can all look forward to more money and resources being allocated to trying to stem the flow of people want to leave their own countries for one reason or another.