I'm not a nationalist/patriot and believe that which country you happen to drop out of your mother's v***** in should not limit your right to a job, a living wage and to feel safe and secure. I believe the EU is the best route to providing this for Europe as a whole.

On the plus side, if we got rid of all the migrant workers then Man City would be relegated and Palace would be in Europe...oh wait, "we" don't want to be in Europe?!!

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Just in case you missed it, the REAL migration figures (excluding of course the black-market workers) have been published today.

Remember the indignation, outrage and general smugness that Farage had it all wrong? That lovely figure of "4000 leaving!! Lolz ukip, apologise!!" Well, that figure was based on the survey response of 5 people (not even joking: look for comments by David Reckless), but very handy for the establishment election campaign.

Now look at the real figures: national insurance number registrations in the past year. Even the guardian can barely spin it.

Half a million WORKERS incoming. Outgoing are of course not all workers, but include retirees, temporary seasonal workers etc.

Romanian registrations up to 47,000 per year, Bulgarian up to 18,000, Polish up to 108,000. Spain, with it's EU success story, now a huge source of immigration.

No other party (capable at this stage of securing an MEP) pledges to place limits on the quality and quantity of this flood. The 3 mainstream parties want your vote, but can and will do nothing about this.

This country needs to stop sticking it's fingers in it's ears, stamping the ground and screaming racist at every opportunity.

...but they aren't racist.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

Really? Because according to this, net migration hasn't changed... [Link]

Honestly, your whole post reads like someone who would be paranoid of their own echo. 'Immigrants!!!!' 'The lies of the political elite!!!' I'm not even saying there isn't some truth in what you say, but pulling figures out of your arse (even the Torygraph claims it's 212000 incoming from the EU) and then doing the equivalent of s***ting yourself with fright makes it difficult to have the 'sensible debate' Farridge bangs on about.

People are currently at pains to point out that UKIP are no different to the political establishment but I actually disagree. They have more whiney fearmongerers than all the other parties combined and for that they deserve tremendous credit.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

I think it's very commendable. But it does mean that there's less to go around for everyone (so to speak) and is likely to very rapidly and significantly reduce the standard of living for those in the developed world. And that is just too unpalatable for the vast majority.

I'm all for the development of other countries. But it's only when they are more or less at the same level economically that you can think about relaxing borders. Otherwise you really would see a massive "flood" of immigration into the developed nation, with the problems of a) not having enough work for the new arrivals b) decimating the workforce in their home nations. It would be a disaster for poor and rich nations alike.

The only way you can hope to level the playing field is for the rich nations to help the poor to catch up. And not just in the good old strings-attached foreign "aid".