MANY letters from regular writers quote alleged official statistics which are self-evidently spurious.
Although they pretend to result from painstaking research, I suspect that they are slavishly copied from dodgy publications.
Chris Thackray tells us the vast majority of illegal immigrants are from Afghanistan and similar countries and are fleeing from persecution in fear of their lives. Actually they are not the vast majority and anyway they are escaping across the Channel from France.
We hear aid agencies complaining they are hardly able to cope with millions of refugees who are flooding back home, having once escaped from civil wars and Taliban invaders.
Do our local loony lefties not see any irony in the truth that most of those paying to be smuggled into our country in lorries are not escaping danger but from poverty in Eastern European countries.
This has resulted directly from a system of government which these same Socialists try to persuade us would be a good idea for our country.
No wonder nobody ever takes them seriously.
Keith Ratcliffe
Priory Green
Highworth
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