IN an excellent letter (Citizen June13) headed "Keep them out altogether" an opinion poll is quoted as saying that 88% think that Britain has too many immigrants.

This is interesting because during the general election campaign last year any Conservative who advocated stricter controls was howled down as "racist"!

Your correspondent rightly draws attention to the huge cost of educating immigrants' children. Yes, and at the same time our own students are forced to defray university expenses by loans. Weird!

Also there is the huge cost of NHS treatment for immigrants while many of our elderly people who have served in war and peace have their homes confiscated to pay for care. Obscene!

But, bless my soul, New Labour has another agenda, such as banning hunting, tinkering with the House of Lords (which has worked for hundreds of years), a clutch of sly taxes on the middle classes and a massive dose of regulation on industry.

They are also slimming our armed Forces dangerously low but scattering them all over the globe where there is minimal interest, such as antagonising the Gibraltarians. Given time, Labour would bring this country to its knees. They must be stopped.

T L Entwisle,

St Annes