There has been a big drop in skilled worker visas whilst the government is spending not millions but billions on asylum seekers. There seems almost a death wish that any person who can contribute positively must be kept out, and those who destroy and break our laws must be cared for. Any person stating these simple facts is branded a bigot and a racist. Do not get me wrong. There are enough bigots and racists in our country, but successive governments have pushed ordinary

To suggest that Portsmouth is a racist city with racist people is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. I am from Portsmouth and have lived there for more than forty-five years. It is a beautiful place with lovely people. I am proud to be associated with Portsmouth; I consider it to be my home town. The much-loved and respected Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Abdul Kadir is a devout Muslim who was born in Bangladesh. He is pushing for the construction of Portsmouth's first Hi

The government is still spending over five hundred pounds a day to house certain asylum seekers and their families. Protests have fallen on the deaf ears of ministers, even when people like me have given them the solution. I was in charge of teams to arrange cheap accommodation for refugees during the Kosovo war. Government officials had me investigated by the police because all the boffs, toffs and professor-type academics had told them it could not be do