cheesyboy has a point. When we wish other people were in worse circumstances than ourselves then that's probably the part in the film where you press PAUSE and have a conversation with yourself.
Cheesy is suggesting we open our borders and just let everybody in.
Whatever feeling of sympathy you might have for the less well-off (not necessarily in danger, remember, just poor), I cannot see how inviting everybody to rock up in this country, expecting to be housed and fed and schooled and cared for on the NHS... how is that even possible?
I'm fairly left wing myself, but surely you have to have some eye for what is pragmatic and what is downright impossible.
When asked, Cheesy said he thought we could deal with an unlimited/unbounded number of migrants - if we had the political will to do so.
I suspect that would involve diverting a massive amount of treasury resource to make this possible. Frankly, we don't even build enough housing and schooling and hospitals for the populace we already have.
And the reality is, the people currently in charge don't have the political will even to help the poor already in this country. Heaven only knows what would happen if we had truly open borders and just took all comers. I suspect we'd have people simply living on the streets, and local councils would fold financially under the pressure.
Don't forget UK govt have already cut funding to local councils and many services have ceased and staff numbers reduced. Local councils will not be able to cope with unlimited migration.
This is not an easy problem and the solution is not simply to "care more about others". It's also a problem of practical reality.