Letters: The problem with celebrity TV presenters

Channel anger

Sir: I fear that in your leading article (‘Our duty to refugees’, 11 March) you find yourself in the same bind as the Labour party and at odds with majority opinion in the country. While people in the UK are vexed by the Channel crossers, this is only because it is the most obvious example of the failure of the political class to control immigration as a whole. The population of the UK is increasing fast: this is almost wholly as a result of immigration. Despite government propaganda about the necessity of migration to ensure an adequate supply of labour to support an ageing population, it remains very unpopular. Migrants are going to get old too: are we to expand our population endlessly? The truth of the issue of migration, as was always stated by Migration Watch, is that it is numbers that are most important and currently there are simply far too many people coming to the UK and staying here, illegally or otherwise.