David Cameron's belated proposals for restricting
benefits for the
expected influx of Bulgarian and
Romanian immigrants,
characteristically, amount
to little more than
empty rhetoric.
They will do
nothing to placate mounting anger at the prospect
of public services,
already stretched
to breaking
point, having to cope with even
more immigrants.
The level of immigration is the greatest in our
history
and its cultural impact on this small, overcrowded
island, dramatic. Politicians talk but appear not
to heed the voice of the people, who are reduced
to impotent bystanders, as their nation becomes
almost unrecognisable.
We shall see the deteriorating social conditions
in Sheffield and
other cities replicated across
the country. The
Prime Minister's proposed
action to remove EU
beggars and vagrants will
surely be as unsuccessful as that of the past
attempts of the UK
Border Agency.
The proposed restrictions on access to benefits
clearly do no go far enough and will require
primary
legislation, which will not go through Parliament
until next year. By this time potentially thousands
of new immigrants
could well have arrived here,
creating social
dislocation, a situation no-one ever
wanted and no-one
voted for.
