UKIP appear to be the big winners in the local elections as the results come in, having won 42 of the seats so far and averaging 26% of the vote according to early estimates.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has urged Conservative voters not to “waste” their vote on UKIP in the upcoming elections in England and Wales.
David Cameron has vowed to win back voters after a disappointing turnout for the Conservatives that came third in the Eastleigh by-elections, with Liberal Democrat Mike Thornton winning the seat.
Pollsters during the last General Election campaign said immigration was the single issue aside from the economy that most concerned UK voters. My experience of Romanian immigrants in the UK is more personal and first hand than most – I was raised by one.
With the border of our EU neighbours also open to immigration from Romania, and the British economy continuing to flat-line, it is unlikely that the UK will face a Romanian invasion on any major scale.