IMMIGRATION - TOO LITTLE,TOO LATE

 

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 abate the 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, Boston and other cities replicated

across the country. The Prime Minister's intention

to remove EU beggars and vagrants will surely

be as unsuccessful as that of 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

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