@DrewPeacock
“…but only the left is laugh-out-loud hilarious because of how stupid its adherents are…”
I should declare an interest - inasmuch as I have close family members who are on the left 
However, I do think it’s way too simple to say “leftists are stupid”, or whatever. Some of them are for sure. But then, some of any group are stupid.
I think the left-right thing has mostly to do with mindset - how people view the world. People can be genuinely well meaning, well intentioned, yet a little naive about tough realities; or they can be governed by emotion without reality checks.
Take for example the refugee question: you remember that heart-breaking picture of the little boy from Syria who was drowned crossing the sea to Europe? Many people (like a sister of mine) reacted to that by saying, essentially, “oh that’s terrible!! We must throw open the gates and have them all here!”
The cooler head would want to ask some questions:
1.) Why are we responsible for this? To what extent were the parents responsible for putting themselves and the poor child on an unseaworthy boat? They had already escaped a war zone - so why gamble their lives to reach the European mainland?
2.) Can we have unlimited numbers? What are the implications of doing that for our (already over-pressured) schools, NHS, and housing? What realistic chance is there to integrate these people in our society?
3.) These people are coming from a brutal war zone. Is it possible that some - if only a tiny percentage - could be dangerous?
It seems to me that we are responsible at a humanitarian level for helping people in genuine need, but not necessarily having all of them in our countries. We could set up safe zones nearer to home for them and supply medical aid, food, shelter, etc. Above all we could do everything possible to bring an end to the war - even if that means negotiating a settlement with Assad.
We simply can’t have unlimited numbers here - even if we wanted to. There will be some angry SJW-bigots who will shout “ray-cist!!” at this, but our government’s first responsibility is to UK citizens - end of. We can’t push our health service over the edge, make it increasingly impossible for young people to buy a house, etc, just to be an international do-gooder.
Is it possible to integrate large numbers of people with a different language, religion and culture? I have seen some credible people like Niall Ferguson say that the evidence shows there is “almost no chance” of doing this successfully.
Are small numbers of the refugees even potentially dangerous or violent? Unfortunately it seems the answer to that is “yes”. That isn’t to stigmatise an entire group - most of whom are entirely peaceful. But it only takes one bad person to commit an ugly terrorist attack.
In fairness, the British left (post Brexit referendum) is increasingly coming to terms with these realities, I think.
