This follows the almost daily reporting of race and crime issues which show that the immigration situation and control measures are not just working and that the Government is almost powerless to do anything about the appalling situation.

Meanwhile, it is painfully obvious that the dream of multi-culturalism is doomed to failure, but with at least some sense and reality being spoken by Lee Jasper (Yorkshire Post, September 8) who advocates black schools for black communities, and the acceptance that Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and other faiths should have their own schools.

Multi-culturalism does not work but is simply a pipe-dream which exacerbates the diminution of cultural identities by forcing different races to assimilate against their will and beliefs.

The constant warnings by Migration Watch and now the latest cross-party group who have clearly stated that the UK will become the most crowded country in Europe in 2009, must surely ring alarm bells – but who is listening and acting?

From: Clarissa Frances Arundel, Lawn Avenue, Burley-in Wharfedale.

IT is about time the judiciary and the Government got to grips with the immigration situation in the UK.

It would appear that the EU Human Rights legislation means that we no longer have a right to say who can, and cannot, enter the UK.

Is the UK meant to accept anyone who applies for asylum here? The whole world would be here, and quickly.

We must have control and the ability to detain these people and, indeed, return them easily whence they came.

The Government must stand up to this European bullying, and the UK judiciary must start making decisions that are acceptable to the majority of the British people

If it means we opt out of EU human rights legislation so be it; if this means we have to leave the EU with all its other petty pieces of legislation, even better.

Ask yourself, if left to our own devices, would we have started admitting to the UK the masses of people from old Eastern Europe?

I think not.


Flood defences that simply move the problem elsewhere


From: Simon Maufe, Malham.

IT struck me as ironic that your photographic essay (Yorkshire Post, September 22) featured the magnificent new drains at York Racecourse.

The caption trumpeted the fact that the racecourse will now stay dry in heavy rain as the water runs straight into the River Ouse.

It is exactly this fascination with stuffing water as rapidly as possible from fields or other open spaces into rivers that
has meant we read in the Yorkshire Post of houses flooding that have never before flooded.

Has York Racecourse made a significant donation to the insurance industry to pay for all the countless houses further down the Ouse that will now flood with water that otherwise would have stayed on the racecourse's land and drained gently over a matter of days or weeks with minimal impact?

I can't believe our lords and masters in the guise of the Environment Agency and assorted planning bodies have allowed these works to occur.

From: JR Goodman, King Tree Avenue, Cottingham, Hull.

I HAVE just read your report that the flood defence scheme in the Goole area (Yorkshire Post, September 17) cost three times more than estimated, and has only reduced the risk of flooding in that area.

The tidal shoreline of the Humber estuary must be in the region of 200km, including the city of Hull, and presumably will be in need of some future flood protection.

Surely a seven-and-a-half kilometre Humber barrier is not a question of can we afford it, but can we not afford it?

I do not know if such a barrier could also double as a hydro-electric scheme.

Billions of pounds are being spent on the Olympic Games, yet we cannot protect our land, and its people.

From: Ian G Johnson, Thatch Close, Selby, North Yorkshire.

I READ with interest your article on the "complete" Selby flood defences. I can assure you that they are not yet complete by any means and have not yet been tested by any seriously high water.

Your article seemed to suggest that the high water in January was proof, but the water level did not reach the new flood wall. If it had, it would have overtopped on the Barlby side of the river to the east of the old Toll Bridge, as the piling was still in progress at that time.

Also, the watertight gates in the flood wall in Ousegate, Selby side, were not fitted.

One of my concerns is about the bridge in Millgate, at Selby Dam. During the 2000 floods, the pressure of water under the bridge was creating fountains of water through the footpath and roadway.

With the increased height of the flood walls, the head of water has increased creating the possibility of breaching the bridge and flooding.

I am told that funding was made available to the relevant department to carry out reinforcement to the bridge, but I have not noticed any work being carried out in this area.