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46 Dawlish Drive, Pinner, Middlesex
25th July 1980
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John Page, Esq., M.P., House of Commons, SW1.
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I am sorry to trouble you again on the subject of Immigration, but I'm sad to observe that many of my fears during the past 25 years are now coming all too true. I take the liberty of enclosing 2 cuttings from yesterday's "Daily Telegraph": first of all, the massive influx of Chinese into Hong Kong from China is obviously bad enough to warrant large numbers of police and soldiers being sent out specially from the UK to try and contain the numbers getting into the Colony. May I ask, please, for some reassurance that these apparently large numbers of pretty raw peasants (whether "legal" or "illegal" entrants) are not automatically accorded British Passports and thus automatic right of entry into and citizenship of the U.K. if they so wish once they have achieved the first step of melting into the existing Hong Kong community and becoming assimilated. (I am uneasy about very cheap air- fares from Hong Kong, needless to say, but this is something over which Parliament has obviously got little or no commercial control.)
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The second cutting seems to justify my long-held conviction that the figure of 2-million immigrants into the UK since the war is about one-third of the true figurė. A respectable journalist told us some long time ago that the true figure was much nearer 6-million, taking births in this country to immigrant mothers into consideration. fact he felt, (he said but wasn't allowed to publicise it,) that the basic fact that there are just too many people in this country was pretty well bound to lead in the end to massive unemployment and massive housing problems.
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I applaud everything Mrs. Thatcher has achieved so far. Thank you for your support of her and thus your efforts to get the basic economy back into some sort of sane balance.
Yours sincerely,