Interesting to read all the posts on here recently about migrants etc. I remember when I taught at a school in Southall, west London, in the 1990s, every week it seemed like we would get a handful of new kids from Somalia. Afghanistan or wherever, didn't speak a word of English, no idea how to conduct themselves in a school environment.

We had to get on with it and educate them the best we could, but we used to wonder how all these kids - and their families - were getting into the country. Some were refugees, for sure, but all of them?

This was 30 years ago, so how many more are coming now that we have mobile phones, email, internet and all the rest of it to communicate with those back home.

My point in posting this is that in the intervening 30 years we have had how many different governments in the UK? And none of them have had the appetite to do anything about this issue. The fact is, I fear, that too much of the agriculture, food service, hotel businesses etc. depends on under-the-table, low-wage labour from these immigrants.

The billionaires who donate to and therefore own the political parties couldn't stand to see their profits diminished by having to do everything above board. It's exactly the same here in the US.

Norman, please delete if this is too political!