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If you think pictures of Eastern Europeans camped out in slums in British towns will put off future immigrants, think again

Back in January, the Government launched an expensive advertising campaign to discourage Romanians and Bulgarians from moving to Britain.

The thrust of the deterrent was that the climate in this country is much wetter and colder than they might expect.

I can remember writing at the time that it would take more than an adverse weather forecast to put them off.

Shanty town: Up to 40 squatters are living in the demolished Hendon Football Club ground, which has lain empty in Brent Cross for several years

So it has proven. Although it hasn't stopped raining this year, immigrants from the two Eastern European countries have been arriving in droves.

The inclement weather doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest. In Central London they are quite happy to camp out in the streets and in Hyde Park.

Another group has set up a Desmond Dekker-style shanty town on the former Hendon FC ground, a few miles to the north west.

Now we learn that a group of Eastern Europeans has moved into a network of caves in a cliff above the River Mersey outside Stockport.

All this before border controls are officially lifted in the New Year and 26 million Romanians and Bulgarians are given the right to settle in Britain.

Not that we should fear a mass influx. Goodness me, no. Perish the thought.

We are assured that only a few dozen, a couple of hundred at most, will take advantage of the opportunity to move here.

Cave-dwellers: A group of Eastern Europeans has moved into a network of caves in a cliff above the River Mersey outside Stockport

Those that do come will add to the rich diversity of our nation and bring with them a wide variety of high-value skills, such as computer sciences and brain surgery.

Only last week, no less an authority than the Speaker of the House of Commons was telling the Romanians that they will be welcomed with open arms, since they have a far superior work ethic to the bone-idle British.

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If we could be confident that the new arrivals will contribute as much to our economy as some of their Eastern European neighbours, such as the Poles, we would have nothing to worry about.

And, yes, there is already a thriving, hard-working, law-abiding Romanian community in Britain. Unfortunately, the evidence so far would suggest not all of the new wave are planning to set themselves up in business as self-employed plumbers and electricians or open private health clinics.

Calm: The Prime Minister David Cameron insists the UK will not have 'another Polish situation' when restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants are relaxed next year

Look, the kind of people who are prepared to travel across Europe to sleep in cardboard boxes on Park Lane or live in a filthy, rat-infested shanty town in a London suburb are clearly desperate.

Conditions must be pretty dreadful at home if a cave in Stockport is a step up the housing ladder.

But, I'm sorry, it's not our fault, it's not our responsibility and it shouldn't be our problem. I can see what's in it for the Romanians and Bulgarians, but what's in it for us?

We are told many of those who have come to Britain, especially Roma gypsies, have suffered harassment at home. Ever thought there might be a reason for that?

Far from bringing vital skills, the Park Lane squatters have been linked to pick-pocketing, aggressive begging and scamming tourists.

Why should shopkeepers, who pay a king's ransom in business rates, have to put up with itinerant Romanians sleeping in their doorways and using public spaces as a toilet?

Why should the hard-pressed police be forced to fight a daily war of attrition against a foreign criminal underclass which shouldn't be here in the first place? What other capital city would allow a world-class park and tourist attraction to be turned into a transit camp? Precisely.

Yet raise any of these questions and prepare to be howled down as 'racist'. One dwindling Left-wing rag ran a whole, hand-wringing page about the cave-dwellers of Stockport without ever mentioning who they were or how they got there.

They were simply described as 'homeless'. No mention of the fact that they were from Estonia, Romania and other Eastern European states. We are all guilty.

No we're not. The politicians are guilty. So are the smug, self-regarding Leftist bigots who have done all they can to shut down honest debate about migration.

They have consistently lied and obfuscated, stressing the benefits of open borders but ignoring the downside.

When the initial Eastern European 'accession' countries were admitted to the EU, we were told that only 13,000 people would come to Britain. In the event, at least a million arrived, maybe more. Nobody knows.

Reality: When the initial Eastern European 'accession' countries were admitted to the EU, we were told that only 13,000 people would come to Britain. In the event, at least a million arrived, maybe more

Successive governments have sold the pass on immigration to prove they are 'good Europeans'. The only way we can limit numbers is if we pull out of the EU altogether.

And no one, apart from UKIP, is offering that. Can you imagine if any of the major parties had campaigned in Hendon on a promise to turn the local football ground into an insanitary Romanian version of Soweto on a bad night? They'd have lost their deposit.

As for the idea that a negative advertising campaign will deter anyone from moving to Britain, think again. You might have thought that the pictures of the makeshift slum in Hendon, which will have been published in Eastern Europe, would cause some would-be immigrants to rethink their plans. Far from it.

A colleague who lives in Hendon near the ground saw about 30 Romanian men arriving only this week, complete with suitcases and baby buggies. Presumably, more will follow.

No doubt there are others back home who have already put their name down for a cave in Stockport.

Of course, they won't be there for ever. If they can stick it out until next summer they will be entitled to full British welfare benefits, which means a council house as a basis for negotiation.

Who can blame them? The weather might have picked up by then, too.

  A Polish cleaner has been jailed for 21 months after a judge rejected his claims that his sheltered cultural background was to blame for three sex attacks on complete strangers.

Szczepan Majcherczyk’s defence counsel told Exeter Crown Court that his client’s ‘inappropriate cultural values from his childhood in rural Poland’ caused him to pinch the bottoms of three women.Judge Francis Gilbert utterly dismissed this explanation and said: ‘If it was up to me, I would deport you.’ Quite right, too. But hang on a minute.

Earlier this year at Nottingham Crown Court, a Muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook was spared jail after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught women are worthless.

Adil Rashid, 18, said he was unaware that it was illegal to have sex with an under-age girl because his education left him ignorant of British law. It seems some cultures are more equal than others.




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