PITY WE LOST BRITAIN

Shock Sun poll: Your verdict on Britain's biggest crisis (TREVOR KAVANAGH, 8/18/03, The Sun uk)

BRITAIN is demanding a halt to the flood of asylum seekers swamping the nation, a shock Sun poll reveals today.

It shows voters believe the Government has failed Britain in EVERY key element of its vow to curb illegal immigration.

The overwhelming majority of voters - 82 per cent - say its policies are not tough enough.

And 84 per cent believe that the flood of arrivals is now out of control.

Disturbingly, 78 per cent reckon the Government is trying to cover up the full scale of the crisis.

The survey exposes mounting anger across the nation and reveals that the issue will top the agenda at the next General Election.

More than eight out of ten people quizzed (82 per cent) think Prime Minister Tony Blair has failed to act effectively to stop tens of thousands of migrants arriving - and staying - without visas.

And there are fears that Britain has been changed permanently - for the worse. [...]

Asked how Britain has changed in the last 50 years, only one in three (32 per cent) told pollsters YouGov it has been for the better.

More than half (54 per cent) say it has changed for the worse, losing "something of our traditional character".

The better solution would be to restore that character, but since such is even more unlikely there than here, assimilation may be impossible there and therefore opposition to immigration necessary. Combine that opposition with Europhobia and a "return to Britishness" and the Tories could be back in business. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 18, 2003 6:56 PM