Over-population of Britain puts strain on infrastructure

I see that your two correspondents have attacked Steve Vickers and myself in a very unpleasant but entirely predictable manner for daring to criticise our immigration policies.

The parrot cry of ‘racist’ is directed at anybody who suggests that immigration should be strictly controlled or that multiculturalism does not work in a modern pluralistic society when certain sections of the Muslim community are illiberal and intolerant.

John Payne’s diatribe accuses Steve Vickers of skirting round the issue. Yet that is precisely what he himself is doing. By banging on about outrageous assertions and calling people racist he is absolving himself of addressing a number of key issues. He seems not to be bothered about the overpopulation of Britain and the strain on infrastructure and services, including the NHS. Let’s just blame the wicked Tories instead.

The left seem to have their backs to the wall at the moment. Wrong-footed by Brexit and the increasing marginalisation of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party they have little to offer the debate except hysterical abuse and pre-formed opinions.

John Payne offers the pointless argument that we are all descended from migrants. So were the first Cro-Magnon incomers to this part of the world and, going back further, so were the first single cell organisms. So what? I wonder what his Viking ancestors would have thought of him. I suspect he wouldn’t have lasted very long in Tenth Century Danelaw.

Mr Rod Parker thinks I have lost the ability to think for myself. However, this is an accusation I could more accurately accuse of those who take their pre-packaged opinions from the ‘Guardian’ and ‘The New Statesman’.

Comrades Parker and Payne will need to do a bit more than offer up than sixth-form Marxism and abuse. Dick Hayball