Immigration part of population problem

BRITAIN is suffering a population crisis. There are far too many people living on this small island. It's all part of a bigger problem, there are too many people living on a small planet. Immigration is a part of that problem and I'm pleased people are beginning to address the symptoms if not the root of the problem.

Immigration has been a hot potato ever since Enoch Powell made his rivers of blood speech. Your headline "It's time carefully to control immigration", suggests to me that Hugo Swire among others is approaching it from the wrong direction.

Let's look back to the refugee camps at Calais. Why are angry people gathering at Calais? Why are angry people gathering at France's border with Britain determined to get into this country? Why not Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Italy or Spain? They gather like flies around a honey pot.

There lies the problem. Who told them they could work without a permit? Have their children free on the NHS without contributing to it? Rent the cheapest homes when millions are homeless? Claim welfare benefit from day one?

If we can do something about state sponsored poverty the problem will melt away.

GR Holwill

Stoke Hill Crescent

Exeter