THERE are targets to build 55,200 new homes in the next 17 years in Oxfordshire (Oxford Mail, May 7) and three million new homes in the South East by 2020.
The real reason is to house immigrants, as the indigenous population is slowly decreasing.
Now, UKIP is not a racist party and is not anti-immigration or anti-immigrant.
However, out of control immigration – sadly a subject not debated that much in the House of Commons as it should be – will not improve our economy.
Prosperity, measured by the gross domestic product per capita, is correspondingly reduced.
So, unless immigrants actually bring capital with them for investment, they decrease the overall capital in the economy, not increase it.
Were the ethnic make-up of Britain to change naturally over one or two centuries by means of moderate rates of immigration, this would not be an issue. But this is happening all too quickly by means of a deliberate policy of forced mass immigration.
Oxford Mail readers’ concerns are well-founded.
John Maden, UKIP, Oxford
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