So why did not every single Ukrainian stay in Poland?. If my family and I were being persecuted to the extent that I needed to get them out of the country to safety, I'd take them all and stop at the first safe country we came to.
none of them needed to come here by your reasoning
most of them do stay in neighboring countriesWhat I would NOT do is leave them there, pìss off on my own, travel through several safe countries,
not many come to the UK, only a small number
3.8 million in Turkey
2 million in Jordan
lots in Italy and Greece
etc etc
The fact is displaced people disperse widely, which makes sense as some people have connections to particular countries -some have family in UK, some just speak the language
Its very easy for Mottie to say what he would do, whilst he sits in a nice warm house with no mortgage