I can't see why it couldn't happen. They arrive by flight, apply for national insurance number, and can immediately start working. Australia and NZ already are open with each other. Just because there is a larger physical distance I see no problem, all of the countries have similar amounts of wealth, opportunity and culture. However, where I do foresee a problem is the marked rise in xenophobia in UK, I can imagine people still being against it just because 'they're not British'.

Ha, I very much worry for people like you. Or rather, I worry about your views. I actually wouldn't just throw the doors open, I would argue for a co-ordinated international effort to help the current refugees and consider imposing stringent appropriate sanctions (and pressure other countries to do the same) on the countries from where refugees are coming from if the local government is at fault.  I do think that refugees who commit severe crimes like those mentioned earlier in this thread (rape, violence etc) should immediately be deported. But everyone else should be helped as much as possible.

Ah, of course, they must be coming to the UK to extort the local system! They must be just a bunch of thieves looking to grab what they can...  There could be dozens of reasons why they choose UK over other countries (some countries have terrible anti-migrant laws or local groups for example). But all I am concerned about is they they're a person fleeing their homeland because they are at risk if they stay there. See above on the red cross link.

I was actually talking about voluntary work through organisations like WOOF; http://wwoofinternational.org/

Right now there are no open borders with any other non-UK countries. A freedom of movement for the commonwealth is just a second-best hope.

I was referring to the refugee children, I want to know what you think should become of them? Do you really not care what happens to the refugess at all?

When you said directly affects us, does us refer to simply the people of UK? Or England?

Of course people die every day. But I think its rather normal to be concerned for the suffering of others, and even more so if those people turn to us for help.

If we hard brexit, I can completely see why any country/group of people in the UK would want to leave to re-joining the EU. Leaving the EU will have such a profound impact that I totally think Scotland (or like I said anywhere else in the UK) have the right to have a referendum.

The main thing I personally would benefit from being in the EU is the open borders, it would be much more difficult (or impossible) with closed borders to casually go and teach or do casual voluntary work. People from countries outside the EU who want to just do casual work/volunteering in the EU are generally subjected to limiting work visas. I do see some benefits to leaving the EU in some ways, but like I've said before on galaxy, I'd only be comfortable leaving the EU with a very different type of government.

So to take this further, what do you think France should do? Or do you not care?

A superman complex?! A feel this is very much moving away from a debate and more toward name-calling.  But I'll try with a dignified response. You say I want to help everybody. I ask you who do you want to help? How far does your empathy for other human beings extend? Only for those born in the UK? Or only England? Or only your county? Or only your town? Or only yourself? Although I've accepted throughout this debate that the refugee problem is complicated with no easy answers, I struggle to understand palming off the suffering of other human beings as not my problem.

I have some ideas in the pipeline  A lot of it depends if we hard brexit (which it looks like we will), if so I'm seriously considering moving to Scotland in the hope they go independent and re-join the EU, or consider another country entirely, like New Zealand, despite being small they have none of this toxic hate for immigrants and refugess. Also keeping an eye on the progress of The Commonwealth Freedom of Movement Organisation; http://www.cfmo.org/

So what do you think we should do with the refugees at Calais, in particular the kids?

Well Mike, I know all too well about the madness of homelessness in the UK, I worked in a shelter when I was younger. And as much as I'd like to see a lot more being done for the homeless, I don't distinguish from those who are homeless born in the UK as being of more worth than the homeless from any other country. Also, keep in mind that the refugee crisis is unprecedented, I don't like it but western governments had to make a decision as the problem was quite literally on their doorstep. Like I said I don't like it but homelessness gets brushed away under the carpet so to speak.

I really do think all the money we spend on taking 1 refugee here would be better spent helping 10 or more refugees closer to their original home lands, especially since it tends to be the stronger and more well off younger males who come here, leaving the truly poor and helpless, and the women and the children, behind.