I don't feel at home

What a miserable country we are becoming. We lock up old ladies for defending themselves against marauding youths but not the youths themselves. We are reluctant to stand up for what we believe and allow firms like BA to ban the cross but not the head coverings of muslim women, and yet they still expect our custom. But I ask the question, is it any wonder why?

As a Brit who can trace his family back at least 13 generations and who worked for the same company for more than 40 years, this country no longer feels like the land I grew up in, or feel comfortable in.

If I were of non-Anglo Saxon/Celtic extraction I would be treated far better by those who seek to govern us. Everywhere you turn it seems the law is used to beat the indigenous population into submission.

Why should someone who has never paid into our system be entitled to use it without ever doing anything to deserve it or paying for it? Try buying something from a shop without payment and see how far you get! Why does the fact that services such as the NHS/housing etc, which are Government or local government run, make them any different?ÊWe are a small island with finite resources and we simply cannot afford to go on allowing an open-door policy to all and sundry.

I always thought that in order to seek asylum one had to stop at the first place one came to and yet these people ignore France, Germany, Spain etc and knock on our door. Why? Could it be they have heard we are a soft touch?

We penalise our own people for such things as TV licences yet we give the influx their own TV sets.Ê

Before anyone cries "racist" let me state clearly that I am not and never have been. I have lived and worked alongside immigrants for most of my life and have enjoyed their company and culture, but we are not talking about legal immigration. We are talking about people with no justifiable reason to be here, in other words economic migrants.

Frank Batkin, Belmont Road, Penn.