How terribly sad that, despite the efforts of the staff at the Rivenhall hotel, certain people within the area saw fit to complain about the asylum seekers placed there by the Home Office.
Presumably one of those people saw fit to notify the odious Nigel Farage who gleefully took the opportunity to criticise Priti Patel, as a result.
Clearly the Home Office was wrong to place the asylum seekers - who had faced desperate dangers in travelling to Britain - in the wrong type of location at Rivenhall, without notifying the local authorities.
But while migrants in small boats are more visible than those hidden in lorries, illegal immigrants trafficked by criminal people smugglers, differ from acknowledged asylum seekers, of which there were only 36,000 last year. France and Germany each had about 100,000 more (see the Economist, August 15).
Britain used to have the reputation of being a compassionate, open society. No more, it seems.
Noel Mead
Coggeshall
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