A little discussed aspect of uncontrolled irregular migration is the exponential increase in population growth that it causes in the future.

Even organisations dealing with migration seem incapable of doing the arithmetic.

In 2002, four years after the start of large-scale immigration, an independent demographic projection was announced in the UK, warning of the unprecedented increase in population that would occur in a few years’ time. Some politicians and the media accused them of ‘racism’ but public opinion was behind them. Their forecasts were proved right and, recently, the BBC had to admit it did not properly debate the topic.

As a result of ignoring the warning, England is now the most crowded country in Europe (apart from Malta) due to annual immigration since 1998. Net immigration stood at 200,000 - 250,000 annually.

The number of migrants arriving in Malta annually since 2003 is equivalent to about 300,000 entering the UK, proportionate to their respective populations, and, therefore, unsustainable on a small island.

Very dense populations put a strain on employment and resources such as food and water and social services such as healthcare, not to mention the taxpayer. Malta’s population of 410,000 has an extremely high density of 1,300 people per square kilometre; Australia has two, Sweden 22 and the European average is 117.

Malta’s asylum application rate is very high, about 21 per 1,000 of its population. Switzerland, quoted as having double the refugee rate of the rest of the EU, has 3.3 per 1,000.

Eighty per cent of the Swiss have just voted to tighten asylum restrictions, declaring that nine out of every 10 applicants are economic migrants.

Israel is deporting migrants saying that they threaten the identity and the security of the Jewish State. The population of Israel is eight million. What about Malta at 410,000? The numbers speak for themselves.