Blessed, overcrowded plot
From C.A. Latimer Sir: We should all be glad that Anne Applebaum ('Why I am proud to be a sub- ject of The Queen', 6 May) has achieved her aim, but she is quite wrong if she thinks that those of us who were born here fail to appreciate the appeal of Britain. We appre- ciate it all too well; that is why there is what she calls 'hysteria' in reaction to asylum- seekers. I would call it common sense. She accepts that this is a crowded island, but that doesn't seem to have affected her thinking. Presumably she wouldn't expect, say, the Isle of Man to have a relaxed immi- gration policy. To get the problem into per- spective: England is a quarter the size of France. If France's population was as dense as ours, it would be 200 million. Would she not think that was quite enough? Or, to take another example, Poland has a land mass two and a half times that of England, with a population of 14 million fewer. As Anne Applebaum's husband is a govern- ment minister there, perhaps he could use his influence to sponsor the immigration of a few million Chinese into the country. I'm sure the Poles would welcome them.
C.A. Latimer Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk
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