I don't 'need to read up more about the Tommy Robinson syndrome' at all Jim, thank you. I know all about the despicable chap.
A woman married to a black Muslim W African immigrant would hardly be involved with such rampant racist misanthropy.

Any genuine asylum seeker would be quite all right settling in France, and I suspect there are numbers who are just economic migrants taking a chance on being settled here in UK.

None of that means I'm not in favour of improving their lives 'where they come from' but that is an enormous task. My sister and I have been improving the lives of my numerous Ivorian in-laws for years. Setting them up in small businesses, paying for medical treatment, installing sanitation, sending regular financial support.

Even in Cote d'Ivoire, a francophone old French colony, my husband's mates talk of nothing else but somehow getting to UK, not France. His brother, the 'sans papiers' in Paris, would like to continue his travels to our shores, but hasn't the money to pay a trafficker.

Any person wishing to apply for work here could be accepted on a registered basis for a limited period, using the requisite formal application. We do need all types of workers (NHS, agriculture and so on) But droves of unverified people creeping in without health checks or monitoring is a disaster waiting to happen.

My husband for example had to have all sorts of health checks to obtain his Visa (current TB X-ray renewed every six months, full medical examination) His sister has just recovered from active TB, the treatment of which we paid for. Imagine the strain on the NHS if large numbers of ill migrants filled the hospitals to overflowing.