The approach Shaun Ennis recommends for our approach to refugees is, I believe, somewhat flawed.

True, we need to do what we can for real refugees but when, for every real refugee fleeing persecution or war, there are a hundred thousand economic migrants – and all with more human rights, apparently, than you can shake a stick at if they get into this country – it is ludicrous to suggest we can just open our borders to people who say they are refugees.

Let us not forget that, technically, there are likely to be, literally, hundreds of millions of people who would, given half a chance, make benefits-rich, human rights-obsessed and free housing Britain their first choice destination.

If given the choice between Britain being seen as uncaring or our population soaring to eighty-five million within ten years then, sorry, my vote goes to being uncaring.

Our roads are full even on Sundays now, our NHS cannot cope, our housing stocks are inadequate – with barely enough £425,000 homes to go around the migrants, let alone the indigenous population, from what happened to that immigrant family with nine children is what happens these days – our schools are increasingly overwhelmed since the flood of migrants occurred in recent years and the welfare system simply cannot cope.

What part of this nation is simply bulging at the seams, with a population far beyond what we can realistically cope with, doesn’t Mr Ennis understand?

Many so-called refugees will come here and then, soon after, their parents and numerous other family members will be located and they will also demand to come here to re-establish a ‘family life’ with the original refugee and the human rights laws currently in place will demand that that happens.

Mr Ennis suggests it is hypocritical for Britain to refuse to let people come here to seek a better life. What utter garbage. People seemingly like Mr Ennis never acknowledge the pressures a huge population increase has on the nation, they just want us to open the doors to all-and-sundry because it is the ‘right thing to do’.

Okay, Mr Ennis, at what point do you think this country is too full to accept more people keen to improve their lot in life? Seventy-million? Eighty? Ninety? No limit, ever, despite us already being over-crowded? Please, Mr Ennis, join the real world!

Effectively destroying the fabric of this nation on the grounds of heart-felt human rights is not on the table, surely?

Philip Norman
Urmston