This is the time-honoured "we're being swamped by foreigners" syndrome, Stu. Keith thinks he can come here and say it in his own faux-gentle words and get away with it, whereas if the papers and politicians on his side even think of coming out with it they are, rightly, immediately shot down. The influx of people from overseas has helped to people our health service, tourism and care industries with willing hands. The rates of unemployment and benefits claiming by immigrants is far lower than in the population in general. People who come to live, work and contribute to our culture make an amazing contribution to this country, including via paying taxes. If there is a strain on housing and public services, it's due to the extreme short-sightedness and setting of wrong priorities by successive governments of all shades. One other thing, as Keith is presumably trying to cook up more stats on Bude at this very moment. I've seen the population of the town burgeoning in the last few years. Oddly, most, nearly all I'd say, of the incomers seem to be white working-class Brits. Hardly a dark-skinned face or foreign accent anywhere!