Cease your puerile pretence.
It is simplistic, naive, puerile pretence that anyone "desires" famine, disease and water shortage.

The 1979 low was not achieved again until years into new Labour.

Not Tory then.

It (unemployment) is much higher than that today,

So is employment.The population is much higher.

My comment on housing was nothing to do with house building. I was referring to council house selloffs.

Why?
The problem is a shortage of housing.
The sell off did not reduce the housing stock at all.
All those houses still exist and are still occupied.

The refugee crisis (not just a migrant crisis, your words) is squarely the upshot of decades of terrible foreign policy balls-ups over decades by the west in the Middle East in which we have been thoroughly complicit.

We have not been complicit in any way in the implosion of Syria.
Only about 30% are from Syria anyway.
Most are from Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

The government is only sending money to try to stop them coming here,

Not true.
Most can not afford the thousands that it costs to make the trip.
The humanitarian aid is for schools, shelter, health care.
Look up "humanitarian."

and not only is it completely inadequate, it is also coming off our foreign aid budget.

Our aid to Syrian refugees is second only to USA and more that the rest of the EU combined.
We give proportionally more in foreign aid than anyone else.