it comes up all the time on the doorstep, our inboxes are full of it, we've now got leafy suburbs where the hotels are full of illegal migrants. i went to calais the other week and witnessed firsthand the nonsense that's going off there, it scares me, it frightens me. when you said, "ignoring the obvious", what did you mean? the obvious, it is a big problem, that is the obvious, it is creating big social problems in this country. we've got undocumented tens of thousands of young men coming in from all over the world, we don't know who they are, where they have been, some of them are blatantly lying when they go through the process. there are protests now outside the asylum hotels you described which are sometimes in leafy suburbs, they are quite often actually in the poorest parts of the country. they are, yeah. do you have some sympathy with the protesters? of course i do. when i hear that protesters are protesting, and these are not far right extremists, they are just normal family people from some of these towns and villages that are upset that overnight, 200—300 young men have