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Er, he said ENGLAND, not the UK! If he is wrong, it's not by much. England is broadly similarly densely populated to the Netherlands. However, I can understand the confusion as he rather stupidly described England as a small island, which it isn't!

I don't agree. I'm not arguing that those aren't shocking cases. Again, this tells me we're letting the WRONG people work and live here. People with terminal illness shouldn't be able to work here in the first place, and nor should unskilled (or those with skills we don't need) from poorer...

Yes it should. It's just that we should be able to do a better job of deciding who gets to come into the country in the first place.

You're drifting in xenophobic little Englander territory with this sort of nonsense. They come here to earn money, yes. But anyone who does that is entitled to use our public services, providing they pay tax. And minority groups in every country in the world have "their own little...

So, to clarify, the problem in question can be described (in your words) as "the concerns people have with the changes that are being brought by this new society we live in". These concerns appear to me to be the marginalising of less skilled British workforce, the overloading of public...

I've told you what I want. I want immigration from developing economies like Romania and Bulgaria to be restricted based on skills that we need, perhaps using a points system. We have enough poor British sods on benefits who want the work, without the fear of being undercut by people prepared...

No-one is suggesting SHUTTING them. But the fact is, you're not actually making a case against exerting a bit more border CONTROL.

The problem with that answer is that the economic and political union we joined in 1973 has changed beyond all recognition. Back in the day, we joined an economic union with a dozen broadly similarly wealthy and culturally western economies. Since then, we've had no say in who joins. And now...

somerset and bashlsdir, do you know what the Schengen area is? How can you possibly NOT follow those rules? It would pretty obvious if those rules weren't being followed. Back in the 90s, I was cycling through France, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium - and in four holidays I...

I have sympathy for your argument, but the British electorate are not asked to approve pretty much anything. We don't want plebiscite/referendums on EVERY major decisions - we elect our MPs to delegate that responsibility and call them to account for the decisions they make. I'd be interested...