What do politicians do when they fail?

The answer is simple, they find a scapegoat to blame.

So we have governments who have failed to deliver proper jobs and training for the jobs we do have or affordable homes for those on low (or not so low) incomes and the easy scapegoats are immigrants. It is much easier use scare tactics than address local people on the real issues.

Mr Drax’s column in the Echo last Friday (Sept 5) steered clear of difficult problems and gave us the less demanding Farage question.

We all know that care homes, and the NHS and many other services would collapse without the input of the people from overseas, this is hardly mentioned.

We hear of, for example, foreign building workers, but where are the apprenticeships to train local people in sufficient numbers?

For most of our modern history the UK has been an emigrant nation – which families do not have relatives in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA or Spain? Now the traffic is two-way.

However, lots of people see immigration as an issue, so it is surely time to have informed debates on TV, like the referen-dum debate – only better, so we can all, whatever our present position, be clear on the realities as opposed to the gossip and rumour.

Then we can make valid judgements.

Lee Dalton, Fairview Road, Weymouth