GETTY Peter Sutherland has branded Britain's plans for a wall at Calais 'inhumane'

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Irish multi-millionaire Peter Sutherland, who advocates unlimited migration to Europe, provoked outrage by railing against the Government’s latest project to protect UK truckers from brutal migrant attacks. The fatcat former banking executive, who is the UN’s Special Representative for International Migration, described the migrant situation in Calais as a “humanitarian catastrophe” and said more fortifications were not the answer. And he argued that Europeans “recoiled in disgust” when US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump unveiled his plan to build a wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico to keep migrants out.

But Mr Sutherland immediately came under fire for his remarks and was attacked for being part of a “globalist elite” which favours uncontrolled migration for its own economic reasons. The Irish-born banker lives the life of ultimate luxury, jetting around the world in his taxpayer-funded role after a career which included stints at controversial investment firm Goldman Sachs and a directorship at NatWest. His gilded lifestyle is a million miles away from the daily grind of the average Briton, but he has still been a leading voice for a number of damaging globalist policies including mass migration and freedom of movement.

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And the Government’s plans, announced this week, to build a £2million wall around the port of Calais to protect lorry drivers from marauding migrants proved too much for his elitist sensibilities. In a series of provocative tweets today he wrote: “A 'Great Wall of Calais' isn't the answer to humanitarian catastrophe in Calais. It is inhumane and empowers smugglers offering risky routes. “When Donald Trump spoke of plans to build walls to keep Mexican migrants out, most of us in Europe recoiled in disgust.” However, far from support the remarks were immediately met with disgust and fury online, where social media users accused the multi-millionaire of being hopelessly out of touch. Irish user Hagan Krell raged: “Only the globalist elite were disgusted. Normal, good Europeans support the wall and support borders.” New York resident William Strunk Jr ‏blasted: “You global elitists sneer at national sovereignty as an outdated concept, but we'll keep it, thanks.”

It is inhumane and empowers smugglers offering risky routes Peter Sutherland

And Alex Debruyne offered a withering assessment of the UN pen-pusher, saying: “You wouldn't need a wall to protect truckers if you had borders. "You fail on everything.” One user, Bob Fox, accused Mr Sutherland of showing “staggering chutzpah” by claiming he spoke for the opinions of most people in Europe, whilst another, under the name A.Grey, echoed that sentiment and pointed out that asylum seekers are “safe in France”. Another tweeter, Chris P, described the UN representative as “a danger to our society and way of life”. On his remarks about Mr Trump’s wall, Mark Markison fumed: “Most of the establishment recoiled, but the wider population didn’t. We’re sick of left wing fundamentalism.” Bob Fox wrote sarcastically: “Oh yeah, such a shame to have a small barrier (not Great Wall) to protect the Channel Tunnel, port and people of Calais.”

Jungle Migrant Camp in protests Mon, October 3, 2016 Up to 10,000 migrants are now living at the camp and are using desperate and violent measures to try and board trucks heading for the UK. Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 24 Demonstrators protest near the area called the