Dear Netters I posted a couple of letters on immigration which appeared in the Independent earlier. I hope you would at least recall the concluding para of one letter(Free the borders and let the immigrants run the country) which reads: Let them, as they do now, run Lloyds Banking group, captain the England cricket team and marry the queen. High immigration means we can again afford aircraft carriers with planes on them, and free nursing care, homes and higher education for all. We would have lost the battle for our borders; but won the economic war. I do not know who actually run the Lloyd Banking Group (I will have to find out). The Cricket Captain is Nasser Hussain who became well known in the late 1990s. and the reference to the Queen is her marriage to Prince Phillip of Greece, who is jokingly mentioned as the first immigrant to Great Britain. The UK correspondents ignored the funny side of these pieces entirely and dealt with the matter seriously, covering various aspects.. Since it is long, I am not attempting a précis of it all.. The web link is http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-perspectives-on-phone-ha.. There are other letters on a miscellany of issues on this site, all jumbled up, so please browse through them with patience.. bhuban
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