Portsmouth must be much nicer than the rest of Britain, then.

Where to? Why does John Band hate foreigners?

The Labour Party, on the other hand, having given up "picking winners" in the corporate sector with Rover, appears to think that it might have better luck picking winners among potential immigrants:

only allowing the skilled workers we need to settle long term in the UK, with English tests for everyone who wants to stay permanently

Q: What’s the biggest success story of immigration into the UK, regularly cited as such by ministers?
A: The Indian restaurant trade and its "chicken tikka masala".

Q: Would you like to bet on whether those restaurants are for the most part staffed by skilled workers with really good English language skills?
A: I’ll keep my money in my pocket, thanks.

Hmmm, I think I’ll write something similar on CT.

To quote:

* When asked how many of the world’s 20million asylum seekers wanted to come to Britain, the avera__ estimate was six million-plus. The true figure is about 100,000.

* Only six per cent realised that benefits paid to asylum seekers were much less generous than those given to UK citizens.

* Many East Europeans have come here since their countries joined the EU – 133,000 officially. On average, 57,000 are thought to claim benefits. In fact, the total is just 23.

* Finally, thirty per cent thought fewer than 100,000 immigrants were among the NHS’s 1.2million workforce. The correct number is 400,000.

Also I saw somewhere that people thought 25% of our population was non-white, compared to the less than 10% it is.

This is from a national poll too, not just one of the inhabitants of that fair Southern maritime city.