Dear Sir/Madam,

Your interview with the British-Jamaican union leader, Bill Morris, made interesting reading, especially what he said about Britain needing to be more open to immigration. (I'm not sorry I'm an ‘economic migrant', 8 September 2001).

Being an immigrant himself, of course he thinks that Britain needs more immigrants. The more non-Europeans that come into the country – especially blacks like himself - the more comfortable he is going to feel here.

I can understand and sympathise with his point of few.

However, from my point of view, as a member of the indigenous European population whose ancestors have lived in Britain, or on the European continent of which it is a part, since the end of the last ice-age, and who spent several thousand years creating European civilisation, I feel rather differently.

Our politicians, nobly trying to make amends for our imperial past and to be impeccably politically correct, made a fundamental mistake in assuming that Britain must have the same attitude towards race and immigration as America, thereby completely overlooking the fact that America is a nation of immigrants, where, apart from a handful of native American Indians, everyone is an immigrant.

Britain, on the other hand, has a huge indigenous, not homogeneous, but nevertheless wholly European population, which through generations of applied genius and hard work, and in collaboration with other Europeans, unlocked nature’s secrets and created the free and  prosperous land we live in today.

For the past half century the achievements of the British people have attracted millions of non-Europeans to come and share it with us (most European peoples, and the Japs of course, have created their own prosperity), which means that when I now return to the London suburb that was once home to me, were I was born and grew up, it is like entering a completely foreign country, having been transformed by a massive influx of black and Asian immigrants.

Most of them are very nice people, and with successive British governments having invited them to join us, I am not suggesting that we now ask them to leave; but that does not change the fact that they are a different race, with a very different culture and a completely different history. It is going to take a long time for the millions who are already here to become assimilated – the last thing we need is any more! And besides, like the rest of Western Europe, we are overpopulated enough already.

In contrast to Mr Morris, I’d like to see a complete stop to non-European immigration. If a British Asian wants to marry someone from Asia, let them move back to Asia – or at least we should balance the number that comes in with the number that leaves.

I’m going to be accused of RACISM, I know.

That is because the vast majority of immigrants, coming from such distance parts of the world, are of different race to the indigenous population, so that any critical reference to their presence or numbers is immediately, although usually quite unjustly, met with accusations of “racism”. Thus, few people have dared to raise their voice, or when they have, have quickly fallen silent again, intimidated by the suggestion that they are being racist.

No doubt, political correctness will keep you from publishing what I have written, but at least I have tried.

The problem (pretending that race and origins do not matter) is not going to go away, so the sooner it's faced up to the better.

When the shackles of political correctness finally break and Britain’s indigenous population ceases to be intimidated by false accusations of RACISM, because all they are doing is claiming as their own the land and achievements of their ancestors, there is going to be an enormous outcry.

Hopefully it will not be directed at the immigrants themselves, who are not to blame, and in time I am sure will become a part of British culture and history, but at the politicians and media who have inflicted the trauma of mass immigration on us (with the accompanying loss of so much of our country and neighbourhoods that was dear and familiar to us) and forced us to keep silent and to bend over backwards these past 40 years.