Here’s the best way for Britain to solve the migrant crisis: give them work visas | Simon Jenkins

Our plight is rich in absurdity. The UK needs new workers and people want to come here. The real problem is populist politics

There is an unmarked warehouse outside Hull station that should be a museum. It is where hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of Jews fleeing eastern Europe’s pogroms at the end of the 19th century were isolated before crossing to Liverpool for ships to America. There is nothing new in the squalor of migration. It is about desperate people, and increasingly desperate...