THE British public is apprehensive about the flood of newcomers from Eastern Europe expected after January. Britain is already overcrowded and impoverished.

Conservative government ignore protests from local councils and residents against taking green belts to provide housing and infrastructure for newcomers. Conservative policy is dictated from Brussels and privileged upper classes which in turn dictate to the unwilling voters. The publicly owned green belts are a limited supply of land. What happens when they run out? Will the Government take national parks and farmland, while jealously guarding their private estates? The government should be stopped from rezoning green belts and take land needed from private estates and rezoning it. What do the privileged classes contribute?

They enjoy sole use of private estates, thousands of acres enclosed to keep the public out, except at restricted times when they allow us to pay to look at them. They need the money to maintain their lands and the status quo. Newcomers will look at private estates and ask their MPs in the Commons “Why do they exist?”

Any political party that acts swiftly now, while there is still time to halt the flow, even temporarily, of newcomers expected after January will be supported by the majority of British voters.

Mrs A Smith, Dodsworth Avenue, York