Like many people, I suspect, I have mixed feelings about the migrants who arrive in Kent on dinghies.
Yes, it’s illegal, dangerous and the numbers are concerning; but wouldn’t you also be sorry for individuals and families who take huge risks to find a better life?
And ‘economic migrants’ aren’t new. Friedrich Engels wrote viciously about the Irish arriving in Britain in the mid-Victorian age – flooding into English cities at an uncontrollable rate.
The author of the Communist Manifesto condemned these ‘barely
