Numbers don’t add up

No-one challenges the right of refugees to housing. What we are concerned about is the present scale of immigration – defined by the UN as people who change their place of residence for a year or more.

We are not opposed to immigration – its benefits to industry and commerce are self-evident. Our concern is not about the principle of immigration; it is about the scale. We believe it should be controlled in the interests of our society as a whole.

This is not an issue of race. Half of our ethnic communities were born in Britain, so they are as British as the rest of us, and we should not be implying that they are not.