Money for nothing

Several staff in our offices have and I seriously question the necessity of it all.

It must have cost a fortune to discover that Worthing's roads are totally inadequate for the volume of traffic using them; that many of our principal routes need to be drastically improved and that we need a proper A27 by-pass.

We've had census after census in the past; we've had inquiries, properties bought and sold along the A27 twice and we've had piecemeal botch-ups on our roads for decades.

Isn't it time to spend money on actually doing something?

NEWS that hundreds upon hundreds of economic migrants to Britain are being lured here by deception and forming a new, exploited underclass is frightening.

What is happening is that people in Eastern European countries are being conned into parting with hundreds of pounds to get to Britain on the promise of jobs which don't exist.

Instead, they are given to gangmasters who put them into modern-day sweatshops and pay them far below the minimum wage and have the cost of appalling accommodation deducted.

If they don't work they mount up debts to the gangmaster and, in effect, are being kept in modern-day slavery.

It's no wonder that some unscrupulous employers are tempted and, in the process, higher-paid British workers are thrown onto the dole.

It's a time-bomb waiting to explode into the faces of politicians, because if the UK economy, which has boomed over the past few years, goes sour there will be trouble, big time.

This decade of Labour government will be remembered for the time that it completely changed the face of Britain.

It sat back and watched mass immigration, both legal and illegal, and for years anyone who raised the issue was branded as a racist.

I wrote about the dangers of all this on the future of this country two or three years ago and had letters from people demanding I should be sacked as a racist.

Thank goodness the majority view has finally dominated and people realise there must be an informed debate.

There is no doubt that Britain has benefited by the immigration of talented people from abroad and by future wealth creators.

But allowing the country to be a magnet for vast numbers of people who can offer nothing but trouble is dangerous at best and suicidal at worst.

They form a vast under-class of disadvantaged, living parallel existences to the rest of us, involved in organised crime and posing a bigger and bigger threat to the security of the country.

Why the Labour government couldn't see this coming in their first few years of office confounds me.

I cannot begin to understand what their agenda was.

Another news item I saw last week came from economists who were warning that both government and many people in the UK were "skating on thin ice" by borrowing to the limit with no thought of tomorrow.

I hope a serious economic slowdown doesn't happen, because heaven help us if it does.

Did you see a news item that 10,000 is to be spent to build special loos in prisons for the vast number of foreigners in our jails.

Apparently they don't like to sit on loo seats.

Instead they like to squat (like the holes in the ground in French motorway lay-bys).

Why on earth are we spending a fortune in keeping convicted foreigners in our jails?

Why not electronically tag them and send them back to their home countries?

If they try to get through our border controls the tags would sound alarms and the "not wanted" would be sent packing again.

It would save loads of money and free up more space in our prisons so we can jail those who really should be locked up but can't because the jails are full.