Migrant schools farce must stop

SOME families in Kent have been told there are no school places left in the Canterbury and Ashford areas – because they have been allocated to migrant children. Instead, local kids are having to travel up to 25 miles for lessons. Quite apart from the inconvenience and the stress – how are they supposed to see their friends or attend after-school sports clubs? – this is just the kind of thing that turns even the most generous-minded person into a raging reactionary. It’s all very well for the liberal elites to condemn the Government’s efforts to stem the flow of arrivals across the Channel. But they are not the ones with hotels full of fit and healthy men in their 20s masquerading as victims on their doorsteps, or whose children are being turned into outcasts and educational migrants in their own country in order to accommodate the needs of those with no legitimate right to be here. Of course we must welcome those in need, of course we must do what we can to help. But this farce has to end.