AFTER the budget, John Glen MP, the chancellor’s number two, was interviewed on BBC TV, along with a separate interview with Labour’s shadow finance secretary.

They were both asked about asylum seekers and workers, both dodged the question when asked about numbers coming to the UK. 

John Glen MP, seemed to be hinting at a figure of a quarter of a million each year (one million every four years. That’s around the population of either Derbyshire or Lancashire) and the labour shadow would not really say anything that comes near the public statements they make of fixing the asylum problem. 

We can only draw one conclusion to their vagueness’ of answers – the secret truth is – neither party have any intention at all of getting net immigration down to sustainable levels of where we were a decade ago, of about ten to twenty thousand per year. 

The Big Question: is it one big cover-up as they want cheap labour, or is it they do not think it’s possible with all the international laws we have and Lawyers at every corner just making it imposible? 

I am sure we would all like to know the truth. In Japan, they seem to be going down the route of robots to make up the labour shortage; we could possibly do the same. If large scale immigration is what the leading parties really want, then they need to come clean with the British public and stop covering up the real truth.

Why is this so important to know the scale of this cover-up? If we don’t know the truth, how can we prepare for the impact of these large figures in the future!

That’s apart from this being a democracy and we should know! If you read this column regularly, you will know even last year I flagged up that we will need desalination plants soon with climate change and a population growth that is unsustainable even in the medium term.

The Pennon group (Southwest Water) has informed me they are hoping to have up to two small desalination units working in Cornwall by the end of the summer. At last someone is listening. But they said, ‘keep saving water.’ 

The Uk out of touch establishment, needs to both listen to the public’s concerns on the main driver of population growth, or wise-up to the fact that a larger population in a small country like the British Isles, will simply mean overcrowding and infrastructure failure. 

It will force up the price of water and food in five to ten years’ time, due to that expensive water. It will also put housing out of reach of the average working person. And of course, the continuing destruction of the wildlife and biodiversity, due to the green fields going to housing. 

One new town with the population of Lancashire every four years is out of control! 

Illegal and legal asylum is not just about people trafficking and heartache, but how we cope in the years to come if the leading parties don’t have any ideas what to do, and how to plan for it. 

They must have a different agenda to what they say.

It’s time to come clean and get a plan that will work for Britain and save what’ left of our wildlife and trees, and still be able to feed ourselves at a reasonable price.