Population problems in West Norfolk, Lynn News letters

She implied that the overcrowding of our area was the fault of us old’uns who had the temerity to go on living in what was once our country. They were particularly irritating in that she spoke for Age UK.

Of course, I should not have been surprised for as a charity worker she is no doubt a member of the professional liberal elite that stretches from the Labour Party to the BBC and whose members have absolutely no regard for the concerns of the indigenous population.

One has to be completely biased not to accept that the problem of excessive population is clearly the result of admitting several million immigrants over the past 50 years – equivalent to many towns the size of Sheffield – and to accept that immigrants have much larger families than the English.

We are often told that we need these people to pick our crops, nurse our sick and care for our elderly, but I am much older than most of you and can still vaguely remember the 50s and 60s. I can assure you that although we had few immigrants, our crops were still harvested, our health service was in fact much better than it is now and our old people were cared for in retirement homes which were part of the NHS or local government.

Ironically, the threat that West Norfolk will be desecrated by a huge increase in the number of houses offers some bitter consolation to those of us in the final years of our life. At least we won’t be here to experience it.

Edward Wheatley

Hunstanton