WHILE reading your article about a Wallingford family who delivered aid to the mostly male migrants encamped around Calais, I was reminded of another group of young men who, 75 years ago, took part in the Battle of Britain.

Those brave pilots, along with service personnel from both the Army and Navy, fought and died for the very Britain that those illegal migrants are now trying to reach by various and sometimes violent means.

Of course, Calais is just the tip of the migrant iceberg, as despite television reporters frantically trying to find ‘human interest’ stories, especially ones involving children, we can observe in the background not families but predominantly young men, some acting very aggressively, as they swarm all over Europe fleeing from their own country.

We are told they are running away from conflict and poverty to seek a better life.

What a different country Britain would be today if those young men, and indeed women, of yesteryear had abandoned their country and run away from conflict.

So why are the hundreds of thousands of young migrants outside Calais and the rest of Europe not doing the same by staying and fighting to change the country of their birth to make it a better place? Perhaps today their priority is not to risk their lives to change their own country but to take the easy option by running to more affluent and, dare I say more gullible, countries to find a lifestyle more to their liking.

A place of course in which they can also use their ever-present smartphones, the owning of which, apparently, is a key factor in showing migrants are not from the ‘Third World’ but instead worthy and industrious individuals. A very debatable point surely?

MIKE ROSE
Norries Drive, Wallingford