Of course Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was quick to point out that 2.7 million new jobs had been created by New Labour in the past 10 years.

Then it emerged that half of those jobs had been filled by foreign workers.

We're being blinded by politician speak. We're constantly being told what a wonderful thing all this immigration is, boosting the economy and doing a great job for the country.

What utter rubbish. Much of the money these foreign workers are earning is going straight out of the country to relatives in their own countries – in other words, yet again, Britain is keeping the rest of the world.

And at the same time as the cash is draining out of the country at an ever-increasing rate, we have people who have been sitting on their backsides for years not prepared to accept jobs that are offered to them and living on benefits year in year out.

That, to some extent, explains why we are being hit by more and more stealth taxes.

Talk to employers and they welcome the foreign labour. They are quick to point out that foreign workers are readily prepared to work much harder and don't demand the pay rises that their British counterparts are always wanting.

So they gain, the government fiddles and Britain burns.

It all seems to smack of modern-day slavery. Eighteenth-century Britain got rich on the back of slaves being shipped from Africa. Some people are getting rich in the 21st century on the back of people being drawn into Britain from countries where wage rates are far less.

OK, some British people are not prepared to work and are all too willing to exist on benefits.

But there are others who genuinely want to work and work hard, but are denied jobs, perhaps because of their age, and perhaps by employers who think foreigners will work harder for less money.

This government more than probably any other in history, has changed the entire make-up of the UK – and not for the better.

It closed its eyes to the volume of immigration, both legal and illegal, until the proverbial hit the fan, and in the years during which people were flooding in in their tens of thousands, created a culture in which people daring to discuss the issue were instantly branded as racist.

The consequence of it all has been to put a tremendous strain on housing, causing spiralling house prices out of reach of growing numbers of people, on the health service and on schools.

And all the time the government was in denial, pretending that immigration was far less of a problem it was, and fudging the figures to deny local councils the money needed to keep pace with society's needs.

It's all very well saying that such immigration has brought economic benefits to the UK.

When you factor in the extra money needed now to cope with it all, it doesn't paint such a rosy picture, and the stresses and strains on an already stretched society is the last straw.

Think again, government, and quickly.

Cut out the bacon and steaks!

OH dear. Now we're told we should eat very little bacon, ham, processed meats and steaks and cut down even more on alcohol if we're to reduce or risk of getting cancer.

We've got to watch our weight – don't let it rise from what it was when we were 21, and binge drinking and cigarettes, well, you know they're a complete no-no.

You must eat little if any dairy products in case our cholesterol rises.
So it's bread and water, carrots and lettuce from now on. That will save on the supermarket bill, won't it!