OUTSPOKEN MP David Davies provoked online outrage after expressing allegedly ‘totally repugnant’ comments on the Calais migrant crisis.

Mr Davies’ comments on the BBC flagship Radio 4 news programme Today came just as his fellow Tories were explaining Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘swarm’ slur about those trying to find a new life in the UK.

Listeners were upset by Mr Davies’ suggestion that migrants should be deported to ‘humane camps’ in Africa and the Middle East where most of those seeking asylum have fled from.

He reckoned it was important to ‘take away the incentive’ for illegal immigrants to come to Britain by cutting UK benefits - and even called for British Army support to help restore order in the crowded French ferry port.

Troops should go into migrant camps in Calais to shore up security, he recommended, while development aid money could be used to build humanely-run camps and feed people.

“It may sound a little harsh but, at the moment, migrants are losing their lives on Channel Tunnel freight trains and on rickety boats out in the Mediterranean,” he said.

His comments were immediately shouted down by an army of critics online, one sarcastically asking, “Send in troops and build camps? Who did that before - and where?”

One described his views as ‘totally repugnant’ while another said his comments amounted to ‘ignorant assertions.’

He was accused of ‘spouting horrendous colonial ignorance’ and making ‘disgraceful’ comments which appeared to make migrants ‘look like they are animals.’

Nearly 4,000 people in Calais this week tried to escape to the UK by making a break at the Calais end of the tunnel.

Mr Davies estimated that some 100,000 people had already arrived in Europe so far this year. Many, many more would be watching to see what happens and look to follow them, he feared.

“Fundamentally, what we need to do is take away the incentive to come here. The UK Government already partly funds refugee camps in the Middle East.

“We should expand this programme and make it clear that anyone who is in Britain without papers should be removed back to their country of origin,” he argued.

He added, “If we can’t get into the actual country, we need to be building humane camps across North Africa and the Middle East where people can be sent while their asylum claims are processed. There is plenty of development money we can use to do that.

“We need to cut the benefits in this country. We need to change the law in a way the judges can’t strike down and we need to put people back in a kind and humane fashion so they are not incentivised to risk their lives for their sake as well as ours.”

Summing up, Mr Davies said the UK had a right to control its borders and ‘decide who comes in here.’

“We are losing that control,” he warned, adding, “Britain is already overcrowded and, sadly, we cannot allow everyone in. Our welfare system will collapse and our country will become unrecognisable.

“There comes a point when we have to say we simply cannot cope.”

And after the war of words he defended his controversial comments..

He told the Chronicle on Tuesday, “I stand by every word I’ve said. Let people say what they want to say - but I will argue my corner over it.”

Mr Davies insisted, “These people are economic migrants. They have come through Greece and Italy and France where no asylum has been sought. They are using force to get into the UK - and that’s wrong and it should not be tolerated.”

He added, “We spent 40 years defending our borders against the Red Army and now they are being breached by a group of economic migrants. It’s not on.”

He claimed many of those camping out in Calais were being ‘whipped up into a frenzy by anarchists and agitators.’

“We are stirring up a lot of problems for ourselves in this country. To those people who say my comments are repugnant, I ask them how many people are they prepared to accept. A million? Because they will come - and that will impinge on places like Abergavenny.

“People have to wake up. Dealing with asylum seekers is a very expensive business. I feel for these people in Calais - but the issue is that we just can’t let them all come in.”