Swarming at Calais

On the BBC News at 2200 on Thursday 30 August the headline was that the Prime Minister had been "widely condemned" for his language on the Calais illegal immigrant problem.  Of course, the BBC did not repeat the word "swarm" but we may assume that it provoked the "outrage."

As it sounded to me, which was clearly the BBC's intention, the whole weight of public opinion was against Mr Cameron. But I think we are entitled to ask exactly whom they consulted to justify the use of the term "widely."  Specifically, what was the extent of their research and what cross section of opinion did they consult in order to reach their editorial position?

It comes as no surprise that the Prime Minister would be condemned by the Labour Party for whatever he said and I suspect that most of the egalitarian hierarchy in the BBC would be only too eager to mount the highest moral ground at the slightest sniff of a humanitarian interest.  However, I feel sure there would be many who would consider the use of the word swarm, collective aggregation by definition, as entirely descriptive of the situation.   I wonder whether the BBC consulted the occupants of the Clapham Omnibus, to say nothing of the long-suffering people of Kent, before trumpeting their headline? I have asked them the question in an official complaint.