MAY I through the medium of your columns point out a rather glaring oversight in LA O’Bee’s letter (August 18).

He says I falsely accused him of being a people hater in relation to the refugees and the situation created thereby in the EU.

He then goes on to describe them as a ‘lawless rabble’, a phrase even more derogatory than the PM David Cameron used, which he was taken to task over.

He seems incapable of understanding the desperate situation these people are prepared to risk, many with children, to escape the murderous, corrupt regimes from where they came.

In the last two years, thousands have perished and continue to do so. Much of it brought about by our meddling in places like Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.

Yes, the problem needs addressing, but we are only dealing with the effect, not the cause.

Had we a really true United Nations, sufficient combined forces could easily eliminate these regimes. But it’s unlikely because the senior members will consider their own strategic, and economic interests first; the great God Mammon Rules.

Mr O’Bee then remounts his favourite hobby horse, the Great British Empire, which wasn’t according to him, all won through the muzzle of a gun. Though if he reads his history, most of it was.

He then proudly points out that the empire was won without any help from Europe. Considering the extreme brutality murder, rape, arson perpetrated in its acquisition, I am sure they are extremely pleased about that.

I invite him to read the account of the genocide perpetrated by the British on Norfolk Island, some of the acts carried out are positively nauseating.

And all of this overlooks the fact that it was all in other people’s land in which we had no right to be.

I’m afraid Mr O’Bee that your many previous offensive references to foreign nationals makes me feel your latest ‘wish them well’ remark to be convenient, insincere and certainly not likely to make me change my view of your attitude towards them.

MRS DR SMITH, Bitterne