Today the Irish Government waived their visa rules for Ukrainian refugees. Every Ukrainian who gets to Ireland will be allowed to stay. Should the UK do the same? I personally don't know the answer to this. And presumably visas need several weeks to be drawn up, and the British Embassy in Kiev is presumably busy with other things.
There are lots of refugees in Calais who are also the victims of war in the Sudan, Yemen, Libya and others or who are facing persecution for their faith, so why treat the Ukrainians differently? Libya is probably as near to us as Ukraine is, and we did help to destabilise that country so maybe we owe them something. Is it because Ukraine is part of Europe and the others aren't? I'm not knocking that as a reason, because I think that I agree with it, but I'd like to know other peoples thoughts. (Just please don't parrot any bxxxsxxt that "this country is full up already".)