Blame Home Office for migrants crisis

LET'S GET one thing straight from the outset: it is not racist to have concerns that large numbers of mostly undocumented young males are being settled close to where you live, or possibly where your children or grandchildren attend school.

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It is showing understandable concern over a situation where central and local government have patently lost control.

And while some of the protests at the three areas targeted for demonstrations last week - Epping in Essex, Canary Wharf in east London and Diss in Norfolk - verged on the near hysterical, with chants and banners demanding "Save Our Kids," the campaigners' main concerns were wholly justified.

Some on the Left seek to portray all these protesters as "far Right" and point

'Double standards stoke up tensions'

out the actual number of sexual assaults, convicted or alleged, is extremely low.

This is a wholly risible argument, like trying to explain away the murderous activities of Dr Harold Shipman as being of little significance because it was the work of just one doctor.

Although it is easy - and understandable - to blame asylum seekers and migrants, that is to miss the central issue.