I WOULD like to answer each point by Mr Parry as he seems to have put a lot of words in my mouth.

First, who is talking about xenophobia or stereotypes? I did not know the Office for National Statistics was xenophobic.

They deal in facts, one being that 25 per cent of the babies born today are born to mothers born abroad.

Population is not just a problem in the UK. I did not say that. It would take less than one per cent of our aid budget to provide family planning to the 220 million women worldwide who do not have access to it so they could choose how many children to have and how often.

Yes, I did say that zero net migration. Let me explain this for you. About 350,000 people leave the UK each year. If we let 350,000 people in I am sure that will more than cover the amount of doctors and healthcare workers you say we need.

Who presumes that the parents of large families do not work? A couple would have to earn an absolute fortune to pay in tax, that would cover the cost of education, health, family allowance etc for a large number of children.

Two children would cost a lot less and they would still go on to pay in taxes.

But wait, the age-old argument that you make that we must have more young ones to pay for the old.

Let's just keep to that brilliant idea until there is standing room only then have some more babies to look after those.

Another fact is that less people often means higher wages. Thus people could save more for their pensions etc.

We hear every day that wages won't go up until unemployment goes down. Fat chance of that when we are adding more and more young people to the dole queue each day.

What would be wrong with training some of them to be doctors and health workers, then we would not need yours from abroad.

So now I ask you, instead of bashing Mr Timbrell and me why don't you write with your ideas?

These issues do have to be raise and dealt with for the sake of the coming generations so please feel free to come up with some actual answers instead of criticising others who actually care enough to bring it up.

– C Davies, Broadwell.