Overcrowded Britain - Ashley Mote

Political correctness has hi-jacked our freedom to discuss one of the burning issues of the day. This book will inevitably be condemned by the politically-correct, few of whom will actually bother to read it. They are determined to turn Britain into unrecognisable regions of a multicultural amorphous European Union. For them, facts and other people's opinions merely get in the way. Which is precisely why we urgently need a full, open and -- if necessary -- controversial debate on immigration. This book looks at the facts and faces up squarely to many of the consequences of large-scale immigration and the urgent decisions Britain needs to make. By far the most important is to recover control of our own borders from the EU. The Foreign Secretary's announcement that Britain will allow all 75 million new so-called citizens of the EU to come to the UK immediately their countries become full members in 2004 astonished and horrified millions of viewers. It was a candid admission that immigration is out of control. Nine out of ten immigrants reaching the UK today end up staying here. In social terms, immigration is now causing serious upheaval that can only get worse. In political terms, immigration is such a hot potato Tony Blair and his ministers stare at this oncoming runaway truck like rabbits caught in the headlights. Which is why immigration, and the consequences of immigration, are in crisis in Britain today. Not that these are easy issues to resolve. This crisis is not centred on those who have arrived and settled. It is centred on those still coming, the sheers numbers in which they are coming, the illegal means they use to enter, the effect they have on local communities expected to accommodate them, and the short-term draining impact they are having on the finite resources of the UK. So here are the roots of our problem with immigration -- open doors, free movement, racial discrimination against the indigenous population, and the suppression of free speech. Even worse, the UK's current problems with immigration stem directly and almost entirely from our being members of the EU.