Don’t quota me
From Matthew Richards
Sir: Your leader last week rightly highlighted the economic weakness of Michael Howard’s anti-immigrant stance. You might have added that it will cost him many votes at the next election.
Next Tuesday my wife will be sworn in as a British citizen. She had been planning to vote Tory, but Mr Howard’s desire to use quotas to restrict the right of foreigners with British spouses to live in Britain is hardly appealing. If a political party tells you that it would prefer you, or your wife, to live in another country, you will not vote for it. Ours is no longer a Tory household.
Proposals to separate British citizens from members of their own families are incompatible with the family values that Tories claim to uphold. Moreover, a recent survey for the Economist showed that voters have nothing against hard-working immigrants — it’s only the minority of criminals and scroungers that they don’t like. That’s not surprising — voters don’t like nativeborn criminals and scroungers either.
Matthew Richards London E14
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