It is not that we don't want asylum-seekers but that we don't have the resources or accommodation to keep them.

Our small country has serious shortages of housing for those unable to buy, has to send medical patients abroad for operations and pays poor pensions to elderly people.

If the Government can find money for refugees, why does it not have the resources to solve the urgent problems on its own doorstep?

-Ron Wood, Hartington Road, Brighton