“It’s a nice view from up here, don’t you think?”

The intake into the UK Regular Armed Forces was 21,800 in the 12 months to 31 March 2010, a decrease of 4.2% year on year. The good news is that fewer people left in disgust at the heinous lack of support they were given by Culpability Brown. They probably had no choice, as it’s a long way home from Afghanistan.

Now for the news that will soon be evoking huge querying headlines in the Daily Mail:

* Rates of unemployment are 10% higher among recent migrants to the UK

* £3.1bn, of total benefit expenditure was overpaid due to fraud and error. (That’s exactly half what George Osborne just shaved off public expenditure).

* In the first quarter of 2010, there was a 5% increase in number of visas issued for entry to 406,000. That’s 1.6 million newcomers per year.

* Grants of extension of stay were up 3% year on year to 400,000.

* Applications to settle rose 42% to 230,000.

* 195,000 people were granted UK citizenship, an increase over 2009 of 34%.

* The number of folks from abroad being turned down for each of these privileges averaged 7%.

As Race Relations Man Trevor Griffiths (himself of West Indian descent) said two years back, “Immigration ceased long ago to be a racial issue….the UK’s problem is not a lack of tolerance about this matter – it is a lack of room”. Well said that man.

Sorry to be repetitive, but we’re back once again to Man’s inability to do logarithmic sums. There is only one policy to enact in relation to immigration: stop non-EU influx tomorrow. No exceptions, no asylum pleas, no family members. I accept with regret that this is going to cause a few tragedies, but Britain has done its bit a hundred times over on this one: time for the other 26 member States to rehouse whole continents of the needy.

In truth, the EU needs to get real and apply internal migrant quotients anyway. It’s sold out on every other principle of the original Treaty of Rome, so why not this one too? It is a study in stupidity that the UK and EU hierarchies have handed such an obvious policy to incoherent reptiles like Nigel Farage. There are some good and wise people following Mr Farage, but only because Establishment idiocy has given them no other choice.

None of the sound governance outlined above is going to happen, because the EU-pensioned Nick Clegg will hear neither ill nor evil in relation to immigration. Being a privileged millionaire public schoolboy whose sole acquaintance with commerce has been to negotiate EU trade treaties, Slick Nick keeps churning out relativist drivel, the consequences of which he will never have to face.

There are, I am sure, good things which will emerge from the ToryDem alliance. But middle class correctness about working class concerns isn’t one of them.