I found the Daily Mirror in the gutter, where it belongs, but since I don’t buy or read the propaganda press, out of curiosity I picked it up to see what drivel the brainwashed masses are being fed. There was the usual ‘celebrity’ trivia on the front page, but inside something more sinister was lurking, Sue Carroll.

In an unbridled Xenophobic tirade, she urges our troops to be deployed in preventing “rogue refugees” breaching our borders. What was once described as a ‘flood’ of immigrants, is now called a “tidal wave” by Sue Carroll, although the way she portrays asylum seekers as “swarming” the Channel Tunnel in a “violent stampede” sounds more like a mega tsunami!

She says hordes of “fit” young men are “raiding the tunnel” encouraged by a generous “package of rights to benefits” like vouchers, which they have the audacity to openly exchange for cash! She implies they have no desire to contribute to our economy, happy to depend on hand-outs.

The truth is, in Europe refugees have no right to work, in Britain they do, that’s why they come…

I challenge Sue Carroll to live on vouchers for one week, and see if she can carve a “better way of life” for herself. Although admittedly, it would be still better than anyone’s lifestyle in the Third World!

She writes, “the people swarming the tunnel do not look in poor health, impoverished or overwhelmed by misery.” Perhaps she should visit the Pakistani camp, from which many Afghans are fleeing and see if she could survive there, for even one week! Or stay in a Balkan village reduced to rubble by NATO?

She says, British people’s tolerance is being “stretched beyond endurance” by these “chancers.” That may well be true of her and the mindless Mirror readers she writes for, personally I welcome ALL victims of global injustice and inequality, many who are escaping from poverty, oppression, war, torture, mines and starvation, otherwise they would prefer to remain in the country of their birth, rather than be detained in a UK prison cell.

Sue Carroll claims genuine refugees like Africans are welcome here(?) Many Nigerian, Sierra Leonian and Congolese women and girls, the victims of rape, abuse and bereavement have their applications rejected. More alarmingly an unknown number of child refugees disappear from social services care, which the police conclude have been taken by traffickers for prostitution, forced labour and crime, worth an estimated $7 billion globally. Many get no refugee status and by the time they reach eighteen years, are deported.

A Sri Lankan boy, Kannan, aged twelve, whose mother was shot, sister was raped then shot, baby sister was strangled and father was blown up in a truck by Tamil Tigers, is typical of the orphaned children arriving in Britain. The odds are so stacked against them, that their pride, determination and dignity is impressive, they want to study and feel included, yet according to the Refugee Council, 1,400 asylum-seeking youngsters have no school places.

Unfortunately however, Sue Carroll’s tawdry tabloid journalism will have the desired effect and create a backlash, with children like Kannan becoming the target for racial abuse. So, they next time a Kurd is stabbed in Sitehill, or an Asian’s house is fire-bombed, the Daily Mirror can take full credit.