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"Mr President, this is a rather difficult subject, and I would say at the outset that I do not blame any immigrants who want to try and make a better life for themselves. What I do feel is that the politicians have let down the immigrants and the settled community. In 2004, when the Eastern Bloc countries joined the EU, our Labour Government told us that we would only have 14 000 people coming into the UK. Well, it hit over a million people. How were our local service providers – our National Health Service, our housing – able to plan ahead for that?
Next year, we face more people coming from Bulgaria and Romania. How are our social services in the United Kingdom, which are already cut to the bone, and our taxpayers, who are paying more money, supposed to support that? It simply does not work. I am glad to see that our own government is beginning to take a stance on this, but even it cannot tell us how many people are coming next year. That is a fundamental problem with planning for social services in the United Kingdom."@en1
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