Yes, sorry, Tsand. Hard in a quick post, without the face and tone of voice.
But it really gets my goat (I was a child refugee too, when we were still allowed, not originally to the UK) that our current laws are a bit like the old test of a witch -- throw her in the water: if she drowns, she was innocent, if she swims, she's a witch.
This is how it works. Someone like Mo Farah now: either you're alive, in which case there's no serious threat against you so we won't see you as a legitimate refugee; or you're dead, in which case you're a refugee, but too late, we won't even bury you in our graveyard.
And by the way: you can't apply for refugee status in Syria or Afghanistan. But if you leave those places and apply from Turkey, you're in a safe country so we don't have to take you. Basically, unless France descends into another revolution, we in the UK will never recognise anyone as a refugee ever again.