Can any progress be made on migrants issue?

OUR judiciary will continue to kowtow to European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) rulings until Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act is repealed and we leave the ECHR. Attempts to amend UK statutes may achieve little, because the unaccountable ECHR changes its laws as it goes along and could neutralise any UK amendments. Neither the UN nor the ECHR seem interested in the human rights of most of the UK’s 68 million citizens, so we must stop our Government submitting to their control. Sadly, experience tells us that any minister who moots that we should cancel our membership of those foreign bodies will have the skids put under them.

Unlike our friends in Australia, we are prisoners of Mother England. Would it be too much to ask for a referendum on this issue?

ROGER J. ARTHUR,

Storrington, W. Sussex.

LABOUR’S idea of processing UK visa applications before migrants reach our shores has a serious flaw. Say 1,000 would-be migrants applied within a given period. If 500 were accepted, we would receive 500 more migrants. The rejected 500 would promptly board an illegal crossing, hoping to join them.

DAVID BIRD, Chandler’s Ford, hants.

IF REFORM UK were to announce in their manifesto that they would suspend all immigration for a year to restore a semblance of order, they could gain huge numbers of Conservative and Labour votes.

JOHN JEFFERY, Bickley, kent.

I SEE Pontins has closed two resorts, at Prestatyn and Camber Sands. That’s a lot of empty rooms. I’m sure housing illegal migrants there would be more cost-effective than using expensive hotels.

S. A. CHALLIS, Chelmsford, essex.