WITH all the media furore over the alleged 'problems' of asylum seekers, it is interesting to look at the behaviour of rich foreign businessmen and women who visit our shores, in the light of the Rover fiasco.

They make misleading and untruthful statements to government officials about how long they intend to stay in Britain.

They receive multi-million pound hand-outs in the form of grants. They get a skilled workforce, trained and educated at public expense, which they then make destitute when they close factories down.

I am not making these points in order to be anti-foreign in any way, but to make the point that, once again, that it is the poor who get the worst treatment, British, foreign or whatever.

ROGER BANNISTER, UNISON National Executive Council (personal capacity), Admin Road, Kirkby, Merseyside.

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