ISLAND NATION
This small offshore island nation
Earned a worthy reputation
As a welcoming destination
For those intent on immigration.
But it can now be said as such
That too much of anything is...well...too much!
And that a thing too often used
Runs the risk of being abused.
When many leapfrog numerous lands
Arriving here with outstretched hands,
As if losing sight of course or direction
In need of previous corrected selection...
The signs are there for us to see,
What has been can now no longer be.
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M.C. Newberry
Fri 12th Oct 2018 20:40
Over 20 years ago, when, I suspect, many of today's WOL
contributors were either still in school or barely out of it,
a provincial newspaper published a letter of mine seeking
to highlight the threat to our already shrunken countryside
from the demands of housing as a result of increasing
immigration. The BBC TV's "Panorama" reported on the
subject but made no mention of the increasing population as a factor, even denying it - PC fashion - in a letter to me
when I took it up with their reporter, whose name I still
recall! It must have put their collective noses out when a
contemporary front page of a national newspaper printed
the government's admission endorsing my concerns.
We have acquired a population equal to that of France but squeezed into a third of the latter country's land mass.
As I observe (and believe) - too much is...well...too much.