TO the letter writer asking how many xenophobic people are in St Helens... just because you have learned to spell a difficult word does not mean it describes anyone around you.


In their usual whirlwind of confusion, the media have raised the status of refugees to a saintly level, whilst no one can tell whether there are Islamic State sympathisers, present or future, mingled among them or not.


England itself was stabilised and its major internal grievances settled through a civil war, as was the USA.


Syria now has its own civil war in our “media age,” and much is being done to shorten it, if at all possible.


Local politicians often try to look very grand through great beneficence at everyone else’s expense... permanent settlement of the self-detached.

That is what is being objected to, not necessarily help of the temporarily needy.


This is a democracy where people can hold their views without accusation of xenophobia.

The EU referendum recently knocked on the heads of politicians and told them public opinion still exists.


SG, St Helens