Jeff Alderson's letter on asylum seekers (Oxford Mail, June 24) ignores the obvious final conclusion.

I make reference to November 1, 1961, Britain tightens immigration laws. It was based, purely and simply, on commonsense.

The Government has now announced new but flexible Commonwealth immigration controls.

There is no stated annual quota. Entry will be curbed by a voucher system. Immigrants will come to Britain as of right, provided they are self-supporting without a job, or have a job to come to, or guarantee they have skills that are needed.

It will be first come, first served in the voucher queue until the limit, possibly 60,000, is reached.

In 1959, Commonwealth immigrants totalled 21,000. This year, the figures will be well over 100,000.

On today's figures, some 2.1 million homes for illegal immigrants and their families will be needed over the next 20 years.

Roads and railways are already at breaking point. Other public services are under severe strain -- schools, health care and old age pensions.

It took four months longer than necessary for the 'No Health Service' to grant my son an urgent operation -- and when he turned up at hospital, the laser equipment required to assist surgery had broken down. No laughing matter.

Just imagine the waiting lists and non-functioning machinery in 10 years' time as the population of Britain continues to swell at an obscene rate.

This country cannot continue to be mother to other countries' problems.

There is a nursery rhyme: "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she did not know what to do." Fred Carter, Nightingale Avenue, Greater Leys, Oxford