Best comments from Ken Clarke's HuffPo piece.

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Glenn Wilson · Top commenter · Norwich, Norfolk
Rosie Rose Except... our immigration rates aren't that high. Our population density is fairly low. Our prison population has more former British armed forces personnel than Asians. And so on. The things you are disappointed with by and large -do not- actually exist. The solution to a problem that's taking place entirely inside fevered imaginations shouldn't involve something that will be economic suicide for those living in the real world.

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Geoff Ryan · Top commenter · London, United Kingdom
Glenn Wilson You are full of sh*t, you are lying on all counts.

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Glenn Wilson · Top commenter · Norwich, Norfolk
Geoff Ryan OK. The ONS estimate for 2013 makes us 51st in the world by population density. The report is here - http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_367167.pdf.
The latest report estimates the total number of foreign nationals in UK prisons at around 13%. The report is here - http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN04334.pdfs
The Ministry of Justice report on the ethnicity of the UK prison population is here.https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ce-cjs-2010.pdf
The Napo probation officers report on former armed forces personnel in UK prisons is here - http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/...utnumber-troops
Our level of net migration is 38th in the world according to the world factbook. The data is here - http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN04334.pdfs

The lie is where?

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Geoff Ryan · Top commenter · London, United Kingdom
G.Wilson, you give me 'statistics' allow me to give you facts.
I work in construction, on my current site out of 70 men, 10 of us are English, down the road on another of our sites there are 6 English people out of 40, you go on ANY major construction site and you are lucky to get 50/50.
Go outside of the site and you rarely here English spoken, that's in London, but perhaps if you go to Boston Lincs you will see that the same applies.

As for prisons, I was in one last year, a third of the inmates were non English.
That prison was HMP Chelmsford in Essex, it's worse in the major city prisons.
Just down the road from Chelmsford is Colchester, a major garrison town that is home to a military prison.
Soldiers who have been sentenced by courts martial to certain amount of time and have been kicked out of the forces, will go to HMP Chelmsford to start their sentences.
There were TWO ex servicemen and NUMEROUS Asians.

Net migration.
I have eyes and ears and this country is being swamped with migrants, I have seen it in our towns and cities, work places and even our prisons, so you post your silly 'Statistics' all day long you utter tool.

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Glenn Wilson · Top commenter · Norwich, Norfolk
Geoff Ryan I realise that reality doesn't fit with your world view but I actually trust the evidence I've listed over your personal observations. You seem, respectfully, slightly mental.
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Glenn Wilson · Top commenter · Norwich, Norfolk
Geoff Ryan Interestingly enough the Chief Inspector of Prisons most recent report suggests that the number of foreign nationals in HMP Chelmsford is about 12% and that English is the first language of 96% of the prisoners. Are you sure you were in the right prison?
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads...rd_2009_rps.pdf


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Dave Fox · Top commenter · Leeds
Glenn Wilson Are you sure your posts sound more like a muslin loving Middle Eastern toff.

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Glenn Wilson · Top commenter · Norwich, Norfolk
Dave Fox Muslin is ok I guess, but I prefer linen.