SWINDON Stop the War Coalition remembers in solidarity with the thousands of people who are fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea from poverty, imperial wars, violence and persecution. Many of these people come from the countries that Britain and USA have bombed and invaded in recent years. Therefore, this government must not let these people die.

As a student of history, most of the British people were immigrants. From Saxon to Vikings, and people who fled from WW1/2 oppression, later labourers from Asia with their sons and daughters now in parliament, media, doctors, lawyers and intelligentsia. There wouldn’t have been a Steve Jobs, Apple and the iPhone if his father, who was a PhD student from Syria, was refused entry. This is also true of the Labour leader and the current President of the USA. Historically, we are all migrants.

AXMED BAHJAD Fleet Street Swindon