It’s a shame that there isn’t the same outcry about the 1000 people who drowned in the Med this week or the 1000 who are going to drown next week, as there is about a gorilla being shot in an American zoo.

The United Kingdom’s wake-up call will come when bodies start to be washed-up along the Kent and Sussex coasts. Of course very little will happen now but, you never know – when the body count becomes embarrassing, perhaps David Cameron might convene a meeting and make a statement.