ITALY right or wrong

[MaryN]

I read all the hysterical rhetoric in the papers with a lot of interest. I am a bit confused as to why the UK has been so castigated - it wasn't our own decision to halt the operations, and we didn't have much of a hand in it anyway. Still, there you go. Italy is evidently now fed up to the back teeth with being inundated by a wave of immigrant flotsam, and who can blame her. It is about time that immigrants were made aware of their impact on the countries they aim for. I hesitate to call their actions thoughtless when they are obviously born out of desperation - either financial or general fear - but Europe is not, and should not be, an endless source of money for these people.

To be brutally honest, unless they are heading for the UK, in which case I suggest we fill the Chunnel and sink any potential ferries, I am struggling to stay interested. I am obviously entirely inhumane, and the words "rat's arse" spring swiftly to mind.