Just really good stuff here. Talking about a previous Exodus from Africa (asians, in this case), from people who actually had UK passports. Of course they got hate because it's not the paperwork that people care about. And his own escape:
I did not cling to the side of a ferry or wedge myself under a train to enter Britain. My brother and I arrived on a Sabena flight and were courteously interrogated by an immigration official. We had £400 between us and we were admitted on tourist visas. The £400 was to pay for our education, or so we stupidly thought; when that ran out we would work and study. We had no idea we had arrived in the middle of an exodus. I don't think we gave much thought to what we would find when we arrived. Yes, we should have done, but that is what I mean by terror. I thought about what I was escaping from and a lot less about what I was escaping to.
