Where Do Asylum Seekers Come From?

A useful chart of the “Top Ten” nationalities of asylum applicants to the UK in 2010:

I suppose one mildly happy consequence of the fuss over immigration from eastern europe (and elsewhere) is that there is less talk than there used to be about Britain being “flooded” by “bogus” asylum seekers. Doubtless there remain some claims that could be thought questionable but one need not be blessed with too much imagination to accept that there might be excellent reasons for fleeing Iran or Zimbabwe or China or Sudan or any of the other countries on this list.

Soft-touch Britain? That’s not something supported by these numbers.

[Hat-tip: Matt Cavanagh]