HAVE we become so horrible as a nation, so lacking in humanity as a people that we care not for our brother humans?

As a supposedly Christian nation, should we pass by on the other side and leave men, women and children to become increasingly desperate in stinking and unsanitary tent encampments near Calais?

Britain and France are spending more on keeping out one or two thousand refugees than it would cost to settle these fellow humans in Britain.

If some of them are not refugees but economic migrants, surely the traumas they had to endure to get to Calais make them just the type of aspirational people our Government say they support.

Why do the refugees want to come to Britain?

Is it for British benefits when countries like Germany and Sweden pay more in benefits?

Is it to parasitise the NHS when other countries have just as good health care?

No it is not, the vast majority of these people want to settle and work in Britain because they speak English and not German, French or any other European language.

A lot of them have family here, so the UK is the sensible place for them. Listen to them on the TV, they speak English.

Having had to take early retirement with a wrecked spine, I sympathise with Mr Hunt’s predicament and wish him well.

However, far from burdening the NHS, it is quite probable that the nurse who looked after him and the consultant he didn’t see, were most likely immigrants or the children of immigrants.

STEVE THOMPSON Norman Road, Swindon