Our little island is buckling under the strain – we must suspend migration for five years – Carole Malone

And it makes sense doesn’t it? If this Government is serious about wanting to take tough action on immigration it doesn’t get much tougher than saying – “No more for the next five years.”

Because what’s clear now – apart from the fact Keir Starmer and his ineffective Labour Government have totally lost control of our borders – is that that we cannot allow immigration to continue at the unprecedented levels we’re now seeing.

This tiny island simply cannot sustain an extra ONE million people coming here every year because our infrastructure can’t take it. And an immigration grown population – which Britain’s now is – outpaces the country’s ability to build houses, roads, railways, GP surgeries.

And we’re already seeing these problems manifest themselves. It’s why Angela Raynor is desperately trying to carpet this country with housing estates – ripping up the beautiful British countryside as she goes.

And she’s doing that because we don’t have anywhere to house our exploding population – a population which is spiralling thanks to uncontrolled immigration.

The housing deficit widened by 1.34million homes in the decade from 2013 and migration accounts for 89% of that increase.

British taxpayers are paying to build houses for people, many who have come illegally, and they are getting precedence over people born and bred here who have paid into the system and who should be first on the list for those houses.

And forget all these liberals who are still bleating that everyone who comes here is fleeing war and persecution. Its tosh and they know it.

The young men we seeing flooding onto our shores illegally every day come here for no other reason than they know they’re going to be put up in hotels with room service or be given free houses.

They also know they’ll get free healthcare and free education which they wouldn’t get in France, Italy or Greece.

Angela Rayner wants to ‘carpet the British countryside with council estates’, says Carole Malone

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The same liberals are also screaming that Britain couldn’t function without immigrants. More tosh.

We really must stop peddling the lie that we need hundreds of thousands of migrants coming here to provide economic growth.

It may come as a surprise to some but Britain enjoyed healthy economic growth long before mass migration. In fact we experienced more of it. And its no coincidence that as our population has exploded our growth has stagnated.

Yes, the NHS needs immigrants to shore up a failing health service but the people arriving here illegally aren’t going to end up working in our health service. And if we need more staff in the NHS why aren’t we spending the billions we’re paying for migrant hotels to train people here?

The latest statistics tell us that of the 2million non-EU migrants who have come to Britain over the last five years, only 15% came principally to work.

So, instead of spending £5.4billion a year on asylum (£3m of which goes on migrant hotels) why not spend that cash re-training people here to fill the job vacancies- especially as we have 9million people who aren’t working.

Because we cannot continue with the kind of immigration policy that allows every man and his dog who manages to get here to stay.

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Almost 1,700 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel illegally in the last week

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And why aren’t we being more choosy about who we let stay? There’s no shame in only letting in the people we need to make this country a better place.

If we’re spending billions on migrants we have to be sure they’re going to give something back because at the moment immigration is just a multi-billion pound burden on this country’s finances and that isn’t fair to the British people.

Suspending immigration for five years is a fantastic idea because it would give us time to work out who we need and for what. It would also give us time to set a cap on how many people we’d allow in every year.

But of course for that we’d need to have control of our borders which currently we don’t have.

David Cameron was right few years ago when he said immigration should just be in the tens of thousands. And back then that was a real possibility because we did have control of our borders. Not any more.

But we would if we suspended all immigration and later re-introduced it with a cap.

Yes, we do need some migration in order to stop our working population from shrinking, but we need to be able to choose who we want and to know that what they’ll bring to the table will benefit this country.

Until 1998 net migration didn’t exceed 100,000 people which was a comfortable amount.

Now it’s a million plus a year and this little island of ours is buckling under the strain of taking in people who could end up being of little or no benefit to our country.