Sir, – Britain has championed the cause of those being ethnically cleansed over time: the Jews, gypsies and homosexuals in the second World War; the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs in the Balkan war. There are many examples of this type of intervention by Britain over the years.
But when it comes to the Irish, well, we can see now the real attitude towards an ethnic Irish community on Britain’s shores. If it were a Muslim group or a Black/African community, would we have seen the same response? – Yours, etc,