The letters from Messrs White and Kerridge (Basingstoke Gazette Thursday, September 26) cannot go unchallenged.

Everyone is entitled to their beliefs be they left or right wing. But the inhuman way in which Mr Kerridge talks about immigrants is despicable.

Indeed in the context of the recent riots his comment that "we all know" which local hotel they are housed in could be considered incitement.

The right wing bile about less fortunate human beings was a feature of the horrible Brexit period. Mr Kerridge clearly holds on to those xenophobic views.

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The linkage to pensioners is typical right wing disinformation.

The vast majority (approx 90 per cent) of those pensioners who will no longer get the winter fuel payment never needed it.

It was a bribe to predominantly Tory voters.

It makes no sense to waste that huge sum of money and hopefully the other 10 per cent will be found and supported in a different way by the state or wider society.

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Most of them may just need to bury their pride and claim benefits they are entitled to.

But in no way will their suffering (if it actually happens) compare to that of people who flee their homeland in fear of their lives leaving family and livelihoods behind.

Given that once processed the majority of asylum seekers are allowed to stay it is grossly misleading and offensive to call them "illegal". A few are but most are not.

Messrs White and Kerridge display by their language the bigotry and ignorance that typified the vile Tory government of the last 14 years whose failings have put us in the position we are now in.

But irrespective of political leaning please show some humanity to fellow inhabitants of this planet.

When global warming has done its worst we will have to work out how to share what is left of it!

Russell Burton

Beggarwood

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