The Chinese are inscrutable; the Japanese are fiendishly clever…and devilishly cruel; Americans are brash and ignorant; Europeans are untrustworthy with the French perfidious…or is that the French who claim that Albion is perfidious…the Germans pushy and rude…with no sense of humour and everyone south of the Danube is hairy and smells of garlic. So goes Imperial English Prejudice. But that is the bad news.

The good news is that a generation is growing up in England with rather different prejudices. Some of the more enlightened have discovered that Europeans from behind the Iron Curtain are clever, resourceful and hard-working. Many computer viruses started life in Bulgaria so their first stop was Rumania before piggy-backing across to Western Europe and beyond. Ten years on the Rumanians have the best anti-virus software company in the world.

Turkey is beyond the pale. The Turks kill English football supporters…and massacre Kurds. Until recently I was minded to share this prejudice. Then I visited a National Health Dentist for the first time in 30 years. Her diagnosis was not as bad as I feared…two extractions, one filling, some plaque removal and one root canal and crown job.

Only half the RC&C job remains…and with today’s Gum Numbing Technology pain is a thing of the past. However I may have spoken too soon as she plans to cut a millimetre into the gum next week to expose the nerve. But she has such lovely brown eyes that I could put up with anything. But I forgot to mention…my dentist wears an Islamic headscarf and her grandparents live in a small town a few dozen miles from Istanbul. Wonderful people the Turks.

The Poles helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain so they have always had a good press over here. Many stayed on after the war so the English Chapter of the Polish Diaspora has 82 Polish Catholic Churches, a Polish Educational Society that supports 67 Polish Saturday Schools attended by five thousand children and 113 Polish Community Centres…the biggest in Hammersmith boasting the largest Polish Library outside Poland. In four years time the daily Polish language newspaper Dziennik Polski will be celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. And so to immigration.

Nobody believes a word the Government says on this. The suspicion is that they are unable to tell us the truth because they don’t have the foggiest idea what it is. To dissemble you need to have some facts to dissemble with.

However a Non-Governmental Organisation called Migration Watch has been around for a while and calls it right most of the time. Under the current policy regime they predict that we will enjoy net immigration of two million over the next ten years…a rate of 200 000 a year and four times the rate in the 1990s. 80% of population growth will be immigration.

Migration Watch reports that since enlargement of the European Union, 450 000 immigrants have registered for employment…half of them from Poland…150 000 are self-employed, 100 000 are non-registered and 50 000 are dependents…30 000 National Insurance Numbers have been issued for Dependent Children. Three quarters of New Immigrants are young men, a quarter settle in London and in total 1 in every 14 UK residents was born abroad.

Poland has a population of 38 million, Rumania has 22 million…half of them rural…and Bulgaria has 8 million. Polish unemployment is 16%...Bulgaria’s 8%.

At present the UK with a population of 60 million and Ireland and Sweden with populations of less than 10 million are the only countries in Europe with open borders to the new EU members from Eastern Europe. All three seem likely to keep their commitments despite reports from Dublin of thousands of Polish Homeless and concerns about the trafficking of 700 000 prostitutes from East to West Europe.

The real crunch comes with Turkey…and for three principal reasons. Firstly size…Turkey has a population of 80 million. Secondly religion…the German Pope wishes to see a Christian Europe and most Turks are Moslem even though Turkey is a Secular State.

But thirdly…and most importantly…any proposed marriage between Turkey and the European Union begs fundamental questions about the New World Order. NATO is past its sell-by date…its raison d’être was the Cold War with Turkey included in the alliance to meet Cold War Needs.

The British Army is 100 000 strong. Apart from small deployments in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and the Balkans Blair’s military legacy is Iraq and Afghanistan. During the Cold War regiments spent their time in barracks planning and training. Nowadays regiments are on Permanent Operations. Their barracks are for recuperation before the next tour of Mission Creep. Army Recruitment no longer talks about Adventure…but Combat.

America’s Geopolitical Delusions and Oil & Dollar Gunboat Politics have thrown World Diplomacy into freefall. The United States is bankrupt. Her Economic Might is an illusion…a Serial Bubble Economy with a DotCom Bubble making way for Property & Security Bubbles.

There has been no Real Growth in the US Economy for two decades…just an explosion in Overseas Debts swamping the Real Economy. America is a Failed State. She should be encouraged to evolve a new Monroe Doctrine and remove herself from the International Stage to lick her wounds and learn her lessons. She has nothing to offer the world.

The disaster of this country’s Foreign Policy for the past ten years has been its failure to see this. Turkey’s future depends upon the dawning of this realisation in Whitehall.