Can someone please tell me how some of our politicians are currently saying that the huge immigration influx into the UK over recent years has/is not taking jobs from the indigenous Brits?

In this respect since the year 2000 the net accumulative influx of immigrants (taking those who left our shores into account also) is around 1,056,000, according to the accumulative figures published by the Optimum Population Trust, the BBC, Channel 4 TV and the Financial Times.

But added to this and in the light also that the UK lost 1,045,000 manufacturing jobs between 1997 and 2005, according to Karen Dunnell, the government's national statistician (in a ministerial reply to John Healey, June 7, 2006) this really seems an impossible political standpoint I would suggest.

Indeed, the real question that has to be asked is, has Labour been so successful in creating all these new jobs, for all these dependants and lost jobs, without any meaningful effect on the previous British born employee market?

I fear not as if this were the case, why hasn't Labour been advertising this unique situation in the annals of job creation?

DR DAVID HILL, chief executive, World Innovation Foundation Charity.