According to the Daily Telegraph: More than 207,000 foreign nationals successfully applied to become naturalised British citizens in 2013 – more than 560 a day – at a level second only to the 225,000 who won citizenship in Spain.

Granting someone British citizenship entitles that person to vote in local and national elections; plus any referenda. Who says the fabric of our nation is not being changed behind our backs? Remember, this citizenship is being granted by the State – we, the people, have no voice in the decisions made.

Contrast this with Switzerland where it is not the final decision by the State that agrees to confer citizenship, but that of the local people.

There was much outcry about Blair and his government ‘opening the doors to immigration’ – but what, exactly, has changed? Zilch!

Who gave politicians the right to alter the society in which we live? Who gave politicians the right to subtlely change the fabric of our nation? Who gave politicians the right to change our culture? Who gave politicians the right to order our lives?

We did! Because we as a people, through ignorance and laziness, could not be bothered to take an interest in our own country and how it is governed.