The Spectator

Letters | 12 April 2008

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

issue 12 April 2008

Crowded isle

Sir: You spell out the complexities of the immigration issue clearly in your leading article of 5 April, but the overriding problem, the nettle that simply has to be grasped, is its effect on the overall size of our island’s population. At more than 60 million it is already uncomfortably large, but a projection of its present growth trend puts it at more than 85 million by 2081!

So where on earth is it going to end? Courageous decisions will have to be made by those political leaders whose love of this country is genuine. It is no good depending on those who have a visceral distaste for our nation state and what it represents, and who would be only too glad to see it subsumed in a larger ‘multicultural’ entity — which is, I fear, the mindset of the Labour party.

Christopher Arthur

Durham

Stuck in the mud

Sir: I read Simon Nixon’s article on banking regulation with great interest (‘A crisis of credibility’, 5 April).

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