ON SIGHT of Bernard McEldowney’s hilariously bizarre letter (November 12), I was encouraged to read that of Marie Howard; what a difference!

Thoroughly researched, cogent and factually accurate, these attributes are total strangers to the lamentably uninformed Mr McEldowney.

It was indeed Andrew Neather who blew the whistle on Tony Blair’s appalling immigration policy, and as for the CReAM report he mentions, one author, Prof Christian Dustmann, was the “academic”

who forecast “13,000 immigrants per year” to the UK as a result of signing the Lisbon Treaty; it was 1.76 million in six years. A genuinely trustworthy authority on the effects of migration, the recently ennobled Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch, reported that mass immigration had brought zero benefit to the UK, by 2008. (Oh, the CReAM report came out a year ago, but was revised and republished after flaws in the methods were pointed out by Sir Andrew!) In 2011, the Office for National Statistics told us that three out of every four new jobs were being given to foreign workers, and last year that 600,000 British jobs were being advertised all across the EU. The same year that we were informedthat unemployment among under-25s here had reached almost one million.

Labour used to care about attacks on benefits, the elderly and infirm and youth unemployment.

Now, it seems we merely have clueless apologists trying to cover up their catastrophic experiments in social engineering. Steven Morson Bromsgrove