And for all that this country has been screwed up - it still remains to be the first choice for the vast majority of asylum seekers entering Europe. They want to come to Britain - not France, not Germany. The reason is that in Britain their prospects are better.

Harvey have you written a song about immigration into the UK. As for people emmigrating to leave, "The country that Thatcher created" arrant nonsense, people leave one place to go to another for a whole raft of reasons - the "I'm all right Jack, pull up the ladder" culture was well established in Britain long before Maggie came on the scene.