HELPING refugees in Libya would stop people getting boats and coming from Libya and other places in troubled lands.

We are told it is our responsibility to help these people who are taking the risk in overcrowded boats. Why should we help these people try to get to Italy, then integrate into the European Union, and then try to get into the UK?

Don’t bring this country in to helping these people – they should be told that we cannot accept more people.

Tom Mitchel, Mendip Close, Huntington, York