Airstrip One

Meaningless Babble - 10th December 2002, 22.22

It must be demeaning for a minister like Jack Straw to stand up in Parliament and announce that citizens from the countries who enter the European Union in 2004 will have full accession rights. After all, we have an immigration mess. The UK joins Greece, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands in this approach to the enlargement candidates and all are assimilating huge numbers of new immigrants, more than they have ever seen in the case of Greece.