YP Letters: The case for looking after our own before taking refugees

Jeremy Corbyn visits the Calais migrants camp.

THE Government’s new stance – they might allow migrant children into the country – could be seen as a positive step to alleviate the criticism from other EU countries.

However I firmly believe that migrants, such as those who stormed the ferry and those who attack our truck drivers on a daily basis, should be barred and repatriated to their country of origin, and that includes any of those in the camps who have destroyed their nationality papers.

The vast majority at Calais are economic migrants; youths and single men with the sole intent of getting into this country to lay claim to our benefit system.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to the Calais migrants camp.

Those with families I can understand, but if we allow thousands of unmarried men, we will be storing up trouble for our finely balanced nation.

We have already seen in other EU countries migrants committing crime, and numerous physical assaults on women because they do not, and cannot, understand the way we live in the West.

Our cultures are far apart and they have no concept on the way to behave here, or indeed understand that some of their own extremist religious beliefs and actions are not welcome here either.

Common sense should tell us that if large numbers of migrants manage to enter Britain they will naturally congregate with others from their country, and that’s when problems may well begin.

You can bet your bottom dollar that when they discover Britain isn’t the land of milk and honey that they expected, and discover there isn’t employment or benefits, many will voice their anger and frustration either in the form of volatile demonstrations or, worse still, resort to terrorism.

Yes, it would be humane to allow thousands upon thousand into our small country, but people fail to understand that  we are already struggling to  find housing and employment for our own citizens, especially with the job losses at our steel works.

Our services are already stretched to breaking point, and one has to ask if can we afford to house, feed and school feed huge numbers of migrants who probably will not be able to understand English and inevitably will never have a chance of employment and will remain on benefits.

Uncharitable it may seem, but surely we need to look to after our own first?

When this country is back on its feet, maybe then – and only then – might we be in a position to help.