Editor

What a load of nonsense Roger Louvet writes (Cambrian News Letters, 8 October). He claims that British statesmen participated in making a mess of the settlement of the Middle East after the First World War.

He believes, because of this, we (the present generation of British people) should be willing to accept hordes of refugees from that area. He expects us now to accept responsibility for them because of the mistakes made by British statesmen way back then!

He is also critical of the suggestion that migrants should be put in detention centres on offshore islands. At present they are being housed, at great expense, all over the place in hotels and guest houses. From these places they can easily abscond if it looks like their asylum applications are going to fail. Many do and disappear altogether off the radar.

It is easy to make lefty and noble statements about migrants if you live somewhere like Gwynedd where hardly any of them actually end up.

Incomers that do come to Gwynedd are mostly English and they are increasingly made to feel unwelcome. It would be reasonable to assume that the same atavistic attitude would be taken to migrants from the Middle East if they come here in large numbers.

Roger Louvet omits to mention that the Prime Minister at that time was Lloyd George, so if you want someone to blame then blame him. Also, using Roger Louvet’s logic, as Lloyd George was a Welshman from Gwynedd all refugees from the Middle East should be sent to Gwynedd for the present inhabitants to atone for the misjudgement of their precious predecessor 100 years ago!

Edmund Brown 17 Lynton Close Chester

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