Royston, you have now added "dense" to the list of insults.
I might take that as a joke had you not already called me shit talker, fool, fantasist and liar.
I will not debate with such an abusive, foulmouthed protagonist but if you must keep challenging those two facts I will keep replying.

BBC has done the research on immigration levels. Figures are here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm

Your other argument is just that you do not regard Enland as a country.
Everyone else does, including ONS.
It is the country I live in and where I experience the overcrowding of services and environmental degradation.
It is also the country where the overwhelming majority of immigrants to Britain choose to settle.
Do you consider Scotland a country?
If not, please try and convince a Scot.