BIZARRE ANSWER TO KENT'S POPULATION PROBLEM

Kent is one of the English counties in the frontline of the asylum issue. Dover is the busiest port on the south coast, where boats from France decant their goods and passengers and Ashford is the town where Eurostar trains stop en-route to Waterloo. Kent has suffered from more than its fare share of scrounging migrants in recent years and is one of the most densely populated counties in England.

Last summer the social services department of Kent County Council declared it was "at crisis point" with resources being diverted away from domestic social needs, to look after several thousand unaccompanied children of asylum seekers families, which were arriving at a rate of 150 a month to the county. Many were "boys" aged 17-18 from Iraq, Iran, Albania and Kosovo.

Housing pressure set to soar

Due to a combination of "White flight" from the capital, a native population living longer and more people living alone, plus the totally preventable invasion of economic migrants posing as refugees, demand for housing in Kent is set to soar. The New Labour regime has ordered Kent to build another 116,000 homes by 2016 in a move that will see the once "garden of England" concreted over. Prescott's omnipotent and all-encompassing Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (sic) has earmarked Ashford and the north of the county for substantial development.

In now what appears to be total desparation, the leaders of Tory-run Kent Council are to persuade more than 10,000 Kent residents to move to France! Average property prices in Calais are much more lower than in Kent and with new high speed tracks being laid the train time from Calais to London in 2007 will be slashed to 55 minutes, which is about the same time it currently takes to travel from Canterbury or Tunbridge Wells.

As Kent absorbs more and more migrants, the idea of living in northern France, with its lower density of population, absence of "refugees" and first class municipal services might sound very appealing to the tens of thousands of native Britons now living in Kent.

Failure of "Old Gang" ideas

Such a scheme however will do little to alleviate Kent's long term crisis. Quite the opposite; as those hard working, tax-paying commuters leave the county to be replaced by growing numbers of penniless migrants from the Third World, Kent will need massive financial assistance from Whitehall to cope.

What is needed to tackle the crisis is quite simple, but beyond the reckoning of "Old Gang" politicians clinging on to their soon-to-be obsolete roles.

We must forever destroy the image of "soft touch Britain" for which we are globally reknowned by would-be migrants.
We must forever declare that assistance will only be given to genuine refugees whose original home is one of our nearest neighbours such as Norway, Ireland, Netherlands in accordance with the UN Charter.
We must forever declare that the English countryside is not for sale, is not available for destruction and that local established village communities, local wildlife and local environmental issues must take precedence over consideration of the profits of global corporations from such planned developments.

Such measures will not be undertaken by the blinkered bigots of the New Labour regime nor by the "concerned" but effete Tories. It will take nothing less than a British National Party administration elected to every council and to Westminster, to ensure that the concerns of genuine local people come first and that taxpayers' money is spent on projects to enhance, not to destroy a way of life.