All condemned to an uncertain future

R TERRY James (Letters, December 18) says that “here in Brentwood” he has “witnessed the relentless influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal, via the EU” which has pushed the local “infrastructure (roads, hospitals, schools, housing etc) to breaking point, like so many other places in the UK”.

He states that he has undertaken “many years of independent research”, but one wonders how “independent” he has been, and indeed how much “research” he has done.

A quick Google search will reveal that the number of EU immigrants in Brentwood accounts for about 1% of the population from the Republic of Ireland, 2% from the EU and 5% from outside the EU. That’s hardly “swamping”, is it?

If the local infrastructure is stretched to breaking point, perhaps the locals should look to themselves, and their own local politicians, to sort out the mess, rather than blame it on immigrants who constitute a paltry minority of the population.

What’s even more remarkable is that Mr James rails against that “boozy despot” Jean-Claude Juncker and his “fat-cat Brussels cronies”, while wheeling out that even more boozy despot and fat-cat Brussels crony, Nigel Farage, in support of his hopelessly wrongheaded argument.

The facts speak for themselves. Sadly, it seems that those for whom the facts about the EU count for little – a tiny majority, by the way, Mr James – have condemned us to a future of uncertainty and isolation.

Disgraceful. Gareth Williams Neath