From what I have heard, I am more likely to pick up stolen goods. Or have I just been brainwashed by the stereotyping prevalent in the tabloids? (Slaps himself on the wrist)

Edit: I’ll be honest, I don’t feel comfortable in crowds, never have, so the combination of loads of people moving slowly from stall to stall is an anathema to me. That’s why I don’t go to Duxford airshows any more. Old Warden I can cope with as it very rarely gets as densely packed. I know it is irrational, but there it is…

The county in which I live has a population density of 84 people per km2. I can cope with that!

2013, September.
I don’t do car boot sales. Never ever been to one. Can’t see the appeal, much rather be out on my bike on a Sunday morning
So, no, I have not been to a car boot sale in Wisbech, you have me there. what would I see?

I’ve been to Wisbech quite often over the past twenty years. I have not seen any problems there as a visitor. It may of course be different if I lived there*, but your comment about “just take a walk round..” doesn’t work for me I’m afraid.

Edit: I have of course noticed changes in Wisbech, but there have been changes pretty much everywhere in the UK. For example, when in 1963 my parents moved into the hamlet on the outskirts of a village in Hampshire in which they still live approx 2500 people lived in that parish. 20000 people now live there. 2500 more houses are due to be built within a mile of where they live. And no, this is not entirely, or even mostly due to immigration to the UK, it is because the motorway came and so opportunities for work came with it.

*I wouldn’t want to live there to be honest, far too flat a countryside for me

I am an ethnic person. My ethnicity is white british.

A better title may have been ‘anniversary of the black man being killed’

Greenie,
As usual I afraid you are making an assertion based on your own opinion not what people have actually said in posts. If your comments were aimed rougly in my direction amongst others, I would like to point out politely that I have never said nor even implied or inferred that I am in favour of unrestricted immigration. Nor am I disputing ONS figures or any others that can be seen to have at least some relation to have been based based on facts. Your arguments are weakened by unsupported conjecture.

Where I do clearly differ from you is my interpretation of the figures. You think they support your position, I disagree on the scale of the problem, although a problem it may well be.

The issue in Calais seems to have gone out of the news over the past few days. Is this because it has all gone quiet there? Have people suddenly stopped trying to cross the channel illegally?

Very unlikely, it is just that the sensationalist parts of the media have moved on to another story to overhype.

Except that the figures are for the UK, that collection of islands off north west continental Europe and with a larger surface area than Hungary, if that’s the rather specious point you are trying to make…

France 10 asylum seekers per km2
Germany 78 “
Hungary 72 “
UK 8 “

I think you may have decimal point in the wrong place. 1960 applicants divided by approx 250000km2 makes 0.008 assylum applications per km2 in the UK, Germany would be 0.08. Your figures would be correct for seekers per 1000km2

Get a map and find Germany, France and Hungary.
Then get a magnifying glass and look for England.
Clue: It’s part of that tiny island off the west coast of mainland Europe.

Population of Germany 82 million. So 1 assylum application per 2950 people
Population of France, 66 million. 1assylum application per 11,680 people
Poulation of Hungary 9.9 million, 1 assylum application per 1500 people
Population of UK 64 million. 1assylum application per 32,650 people

To put that into perspective, my nearest town has a population of 33,000 people, so we would have had 1 person apply for assylum in proportion to the rest of the UK. Assuming this were true of the entire year 12 people. Or 0.00036% of the population.

In otherwords, the chances of me ever meeting an assylum seeker in my town would be minute. I have eight or 10 ex colleagues who live within two miles of me and I haven’t ever met them by chance in the town in the twenty years I have lived in the area.

What a good positive note ! That is excellent news.

Which part do regard as positive? A lot of the local community are apparently not at all happy with the influx of old people into their area whatever their ethnic origin-most of them come from other areas of britain. As such they are immigrants to the area.
As the ‘indigenous’ locals find it much more difficult to access local services such as the GP’s as a result, perhaps you would advocate preventing non-locals from using the services, or sending all these people back to the villages and towns where they were born? It is about as logical as your arguments regarding immigrants to the UK being prevented from coming or repatriated.