'We can't cope with any more migrants'
BRITAIN cannot cope with the expected wave of mass immigration, Tory backbenchers warned yesterday.
With a population already heading towards 70 million, the UK will be hugely overcrowded if a flood of Romanians and Bulgarians emigrate here when EU labour market restrictions end next year.
Schools, housing, health and welfare services will be put at “grave” risk, warned Philip Hollobone.
He said the country’s infrastructure will buckle under the weight of another large-scale wave of immigration like the one seen under Labour.
He added that the threat to services – and to jobs for local people – could only get worse if immigration was again allowed to run wild.
Tory MP Nicholas Soames added: “This is a problem, a national problem, which must be addressed.” He feared the dangers of significant numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians heading to make a new life in the UK.
The MPs’ comments came in a Commons debate yesterday after an online petition – signed by more than 100,000 people – which called for more controls on the kind of work migrants from either country can do once they are in the UK.