[wai-ming]

The Eastern Europeans, the Poles in particular, are not "a drain on the country's economic security". Quite the contrary, they're net contributors: mostly young, hard-working, with useful skills and not claiming benefits. Rather similar, in fact, to the situation with the Hong Kong immigrants which you describe.

That's good to know. Thanks for enlightening.

I'll bet that there will not ever be a single incident in Great Britain of a Pole, Czech, Hungarian, Rumanian, or Bulgarian Christian refugee setting off bombs on buses or on railways.

Nor a Hong Kong Chinese. Perhaps not all immigrants to the UK enter with the same intentions.

[plenipotentiary]

The British never voted for mass immigration. Unlike the US we have no need of immigration, this country has been full up for many years.

Because the UK is an old country it already had a set of homogenous identities, but now we are asked to accept unlimited change in our national identity. We don't want it, never voted for it, and won't have it.

If I wanted to be a Pole, I would have chosen to go to Poland. If I want to live like amongst Nigerians, or Pakistanis, I would have gone to Lagos, or Lahore.

Why we give any old foreigners citizenship rights, when all they are, are guestworkers.

If all the bilions of the world population who wish to come and live in the UK are allowed to the UK will cease to exist.

The UK Government never says what the UK GDP per person is in a real terms comparison with recent years.

I'd hazard a guess that the Total GDP has increased because the working population has increased, but the real income per person is a different story.