Questioning the "benefits" of mass immigration. England is full - there is no room.

Clive Lavelle of the English Democrats had this letter published in the Western Daily Press on the 10th of October 2015.

England is full - there is no room.
At the Conservative Party’s conference, Theresa May made a speech in which she questioned the “benefits” of mass immigration.

The following day, in a national daily, this headline appeared. “What have migrants ever done for us, Theresa?”

It went on to list the numbers of doctors, nurses, etc who come from immigrant stock.

Now, the journalist who wrote the headline has either, not bothered to listen closely enough to what was being said, too thick to know the difference between the words “immigration” and “immigrant”, or content to misquote people for his own political ends.

Mrs May was talking about immigration – the process whereby foreigners come to settle in England.

Last year, these numbered a third of a million.

The immigrants themselves are, no doubt, all nice people. But to house them all will involve building a town the size of Doncaster. There’s another third of a million on their way.

Another town the size of Doncaster will be required to house them and this building process will involve concreting over yet more of England’s “green and pleasant land”.

England is full. The population per square mile of France is about 270; of Germany, 550 and of Scotland, 175. The population per square mile of England is about 1,070 and rising.

It’s time to hang up the “no vacancies” sign.

Clive Lavelle

Weston-super-Mare

Can any reasonable person disagree?

On a similar theme this letter was published in the Western Daily Press four days later on the 14th October.

No more beauty of English countryside?
The Conservative government’s new National Infrastructures Commission chairman Lord Adonis, a former Labour Cabinet Minister, has said that 40 towns and cities in southern England must double in size even if it means building on the green belt. As Clive Lavelle of the English Democrats pointed out in his letter “England is full – there is no room” ( Western Daily Press, October 10) any such building will involve losing much more of England’s green and pleasant land.

It seems rather bizarre that a Conservative government apparently no longer believes in conserving the English countryside in general or the green belt in particular.

S.W.

Ilminster, Somerset