Sir - Lets look at the root causes...

John Phillpott questioned the Green Party position on population and immigration to the UK. There will always be emigration from the poor world to the rich as long as a bag of rice grown in Haiti by a poor farmer is more expensive to buy in Haiti than an imported and subsidised bag of rice from the US.

It is not only the barriers put on the underdeveloped world trying to export to the rich countries, but also the destruction of third world industries by the rich competing by exporting subsidised goods to the poor countries. The poor countries cannot survive on foreign "investment" which effectively amounts to licences to plunder raw materials benefiting only a small elite that happens to be in power at the time.

People with a modicum of intelligence, decency and an ambition to do better in life tire of waiting for their self-serving politicians, protecting themselves with soldiers and police using expensive arms imports. They see no prospects of ending the corruption of their governments, aided by bribery from international corporates, to which high-minded hypocritical governments like our own turn a blind eye, and so decide to leave.

Louis Stephen

Worcester Green Party