I was distressed, alarmed and disappointed to witness the manner in which the Radlett audience reacted to the UKIP representative Neil Hamilton on BBC’s Question Time on May 22.

The jeering laughter when he gave Migration Watch (who have never been proved wrong) as his source of information demonstrates how out of touch they are they are with the increasing problems of immigration.

Given the latest figures showing two out of three children born in London are from ethnic minorities and that 34,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were granted NI status during the first quarter of 2014 demonstrates Mr Hamilton was quite correct in his statement on the frightening exponential rise of immigrants and our inability under EU rules to stem the flow.

Jeers will also not alter nor hide the current need for 40,000 dwellings in south and east Hertfordshire, plus schools, hospitals and all the ancillary infrastructure to sustain them, housing estates, schools, medical services, roads, refuse, sewerage – need I go on? Radlett’s open spaces will not be impervious to that need. What price ridicule then?

As someone who is fortunate to live in south Hertfordshire but originates from north Islington, I would advise those residents who ridicule to witness the devastating effects of immigration on Holloway and Tottenham. I regularly return to my roots of Finsbury Park and Holloway to visit the last of my friends there. It is a place I know longer recognise or understand. Schools with 28 languages spoken, drug dealers on most estates, the abuse and overcrowding of council housing, all the result of social engineering and the cowardly refusal to acknowledge the problem. Might I suggest that those who use the usual smug retorts visit the above to understand the effect of immigration will have on Radlett in the very near future?

Ok, jeering and ridiculing Neil Hamilton is just an easy way of pretending it is not happening and avoiding a sensible debate. Continue acting superior all you like, but remember, London’s problems today are Radlett’s not in my backyard troubles tomorrow. I promise you, you will not be jeering then.

Before the usual accusations of racism and fascism, I have no problem with any race, colour or creed and understand why migrants want to better their life, as I would. But it is not racist to point out that is impossible for this tiny island to sustain the sheer numbers, coupled with the recent increasing speed of migration, which is destroying the very reasons why they wish to make this country their home.

For information, do not take my word for the above facts visit Migration Watch website yourselves. It will confirm the realities Neil Hamilton was bravely informing you of.

I trust the above has troubled the conscience of the inward looking audience who jeered an honest man on Question time.

Roy W Painter

Bradmore Way, Brookmans Park