"...during the Blair years there was a record amount of immigration and a lot of pro-immigrationism here that was great for the likes of you Ruth, and difficult for a repat, who has questioned economic/capitalist immmigration, like me..."

See, now we're finally getting to the crux of it. Great for the likes of me, was it? You think I've had my career handed to me on a platter, just because I'm an immigrant?

I have done my share of shitty jobs. When I first arrived in London I sometimes worked 60 hours a week in pubs - it's an expensive city, and there was no minimum wage at the time. Until my daughter was 4 I was a full-time mum all day who then worked evenings and weekends in pubs and restaurants. Tell me, instead of bleating about how you can't find manufacturing work, have you got up off your arse to find some - ANY - work that would mean you didn't have to be a burden to the English taxpayer? Or is that beneath you?

I re-trained specifically to work in my current profession - I took a specialist degree, and was working three part-time jobs at one point in addition to full time study and looking after my family. I came away with a 1st class degree and a shedload of practical experience, and haven't really looked back.

So there you go, Crocodile Dundee - if I'm one of Blair's babes (actually, I came to this country when there was a conservative government, while you were still singing Waltzing Matilda round the barbie) I've worked pretty bloody hard for the privilege. And yeah, I have a pretty nice life.

You resent people like me because we have what you don't. You would like to see laws that would keep us out, because you're a jealous, spiteful little man. But regardless of when or where you were born, you are no more entitled to a career or success than anyone else. At the end of the day, I've got a strong suspicion that it's your own social inadequacy that is far more responsible than all the immigrants in Britain for your current sorry state. Why not do yourself and everyone else a favour? Go home.