I don't disagree that something needs to be done about the camps and that we can't take in large amounts of immigrants. It's not feasible to do so and it would encourage the problem to get worse. I think that we should be willing to accept some of them should we come to a cross-Europe agreement to deal with the problem at source, not Calais, and for each nation to take in a percentage of them.
However that doesn't mean we should dehumanise these people, lack sympathy for their situation or imply that this is their fault. They are escaping horrific conditions back home which isn't their fault and I imagine any of us would do the same thing. I think some of the language and insinuations directed at them in this thread is getting close to crossing a line...
It's often remarked that you can't raise concerns about immigration without being labelled a racist but if the discussion about those reasonable concerns can't be had without referring to those involved as if they were vermin trying to invade your house then that is the natural result. It's right that concerns are addressed without the assumption that those rising them are prejudiced but equally it's right to expect that conversation to happen without nastiness creeping in.
