Our country is going to the dogs. It is estimated that 250,000 asylum seekers came here to stay between 2001 and 2003 and there are about 2,000,000 more to come between 2003 and 2005.

All are given somewhere to live, money from social security and three meals a day- thanks to Tony Blair's government, for whom English is a dirty word.

Falklands War veterans and Northern Ireland veterans are sleeping on the streets in the bitterly cold weather. They are, of course, Englishmen.

No warm bed for them or a place to call home. Young English couples with children are put in B&B accommodation, in misery, with no hope of a warm house.

I lost some of my family in the Second World War, fighting to keep the Nazis out so we might live in freedom. Did they give their young lives for a country riddled with crime?

Three-quarters of these thugs and gun-wielding gangsters are from the foreign countries, coming here by the thousand. Old people are afraid to go out after dark in our cities, drugs are given to our teenagers and some areas are no-go zones for the English citizen.

This is a small island and we haven't the room for all these migrants. Pensioners are not given a decent amount of money to live on without worry.

The millions of pounds needed to keep the ever-increasing wave of refugees in comfort here should be going to our pensioners and hospitals.

We have paid all our lives for the NHS and half the hospital beds are full each week with people who have never contributed a penny to this or anything else.

It is a sad situation indeed when a Government neglects its own people to give so much to people who betray the hospitality when they enter our country.

Englishman seems to have become a dirty word. Charity begins at home. The Government would do well to listen to the people as it will find at the next election, to its cost, we have had enough of being second-class citizens.

-Mrs M Judd, Woodingdean