How is it in our national interest? We're still part of the EU, and engaged in activities against IS with a view to restoring Syria.

If history shows us one thing, its that refugee camps become fertile recruiting grounds for extremist groups - The PLO, PFLP, Hamas, Hezbollah, Black September etc.

I think the EU has contrived to muddle policy on asylum with policy on migration. We should only be open to legit refugees and not open to economic migrants who fancy a Northern Europe lifestyle.

Refugee as soon as they reach Turkey, economic migrant everywhere else.

By turning refugees into economic migrants, and placing the emphasis for dealing with refugees on other countries.

The UK doesn't really have a problem with Asylum based migration. Even in its busiest year, we granted 26,500 applications. Considering that on average 125,000 UK citizens leave the UK permanently, its very much manageable.

We should of course be taking individuals displaced into refugee camps, rather than waiting until they turn up on our doorstep and claim asylum. All states should because a) it gives us greater control over the problem b) it keeps refreshing the camp population c) it prevents the market for traffickers.

Instead, we've essentially stalled, done as little as possible, over 5 yetars, and now complain that people who may have been in a refugee camp for several years, are resorting to desperate measures.

We complain about taking 20,000 Syrian refugees (over 4 years) and how it will overburden our public services. Lebanon, a country of 4m, at the last count, had around one million refugees, displaced by the Syrian civil war.

Our problem is with actual economic working migration, and always has been, people who are essentially being used to provide a cheap labour force.

Well done - a 60+ year definition that pre-dates the current day "benefit shopping" culture of not looking for immediate protection from war or oppression, but rather shopping for the best passport and best package for their new life.

Is France so terrible that they must camp out for the chance to move to the UK? Are they being bombed in Calais? No. Yet they are killing themselves trying to walk through the tunnel to get to the UK because of the huge pull-factor arising from naive idiots here offering them the moon while our ex-servicemen are sleeping on the street.