It's all gone to shit

27 down...

The drowning of 27 illegal migrants in the English Channel is followed by the predictable handwringing from the great and the good. I wonder how many of them would actually turn their own back yards over to a camp?

The UN Refugee Agency, for example, says the deaths could have been avoided and calls for a co-ordinated response. But what, of practical value, is the UN Refugee Agency actually doing to ease the burden on the UK, and other nations that are being inundated?

As opposed to the people whose taxes are sponged; whose streets are begged on; and whose pockets are picked. And seem to have no choice but to accept the detritus.