A SOLIDARITY convoy from London to Calais will be distributing food, clothes and sanitary goods today after an overwhelming outpouring of support for refugees on the French coast put politicians to shame.

While Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond moaned that African migrants threaten our standard of living, and Prime Minister David Cameron bewailed “a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean,” the British public got on with helping.

Joining the convoy, friends Mona Dohle and Syed Bokhari alone raised over £7,400 in two weeks and with the help of friends, eight vans and piles of donations left their home in London yesterday, bound for Calais.