THE number of European migrants, many who are refugees fleeing from US-inspired NATO-led campaigns, continues to rise daily, thus swelling the numbers wishing to claim asylum in Italy and Spain, at the same time adding to those in Calais who see their future as being in the UK.

The European Parliament is holding desperate discussions over quotas, while the UK will not accept any of these displaced people.

Meanwhile the hawks on Capitol Hill in the US continue to beat the drums of war for countries around the globe, and are primarily responsible for leading western nations under the guise of NATO in creating regime change, destabilisation and subversion in the homelands of these poor people, by spending billions on weapons of mass destruction which has sadly led to the deaths of countless civilians in these targeted countries.

Having created the conditions for and having furnished most of the armaments for the very existence of IS, the US are now spending $9bn a day in fighting their creation and have spent $2.7bn on bombing campaigns in Iraq and Syria.

The UK has been actively involved as part of a US-led NATO coalition since early August and it makes one wonder just what it is costing this country at a time when we are all being urged to tighten our belts.

Isn’t it about time the European Parliament and the Cameron government started demanding the US, which is primarily responsible for causing such mayhem in the homelands of these poor human beings, step up to the plate by offering them asylum and a new life in the States?

The US seems to have a bottomless amount of money in its war chest which it continually uses in an effort to fashion other countries around the globe in its own image, whether they desire it or not, but keeps inexorably quiet over putting up any funding to clear the human tragedy that it is primarily responsible for creating.

G A WOODWARD Nelson Street, Swindon