Economic migrants are taking the place of those fleeing oppression

Whilst most of our media is firmly on message about our migrant crisis, I, like the majority of ordinary punters I suggest, remain unconvinced of the merits of taking in any more than the government has suggested.

Firstly, whilst the US and its collaborative allies, France, Germany and Britain mainly, contrived to blast Libya back to the Stone Age, where was the outcry?

If it was left to Gaddafi to sort out, the pain and loss of life would have been much less than the lingering state of war at present. The same applies to Syria, when the US and Gulf states backed Sunni extremists to topple Assad to fit with their view of how the Middle East should be arranged.