IF our doctors treated symptoms while watching the patient die, we would be alarmed.
That is what those presently debating housing are doing.
In my lifetime the population of this country has increased from well under 50m to its present 61m.
We have had to build hundreds of thousands of houses each year just to keep pace, wit
h all its destructive consequences for towns, villages, countryside, agriculture and nature.
Yet today we have more old people than young — due to the indigenous population having smaller families.
The reality is that our population would be falling to a sensible level, environmentally and socially, were it not for immigration.
No responsible government could allow this to continue.
We have to look after our own people, and other countries look after theirs.
Now, to add to that we have the potentially devastating effects of global warming, which needs action and not to wait and see until it is too late.
What we need is a little more social reality and less economic greed.
R. W. Standing,
Sea Road,
East PrestonNOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.
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