The present economics of EU immigration policy creates an un-level playing field where certain countries such as the United Kingdom take the brunt of acute socio-economic pressures over a relatively short period of time.

This national shock creates unacceptable forces on the system and where politicians have never understood that integration has to be undertaken over a medium to long term period.

Indeed, what we have now is a system that immediately places huge burdens on health, education and the social services that were never envisaged when Britain joined the EU enterprise, or even in recent times.

Over the last ten years the net gain between immigration and emigration has been a positive influx of around 1.1 million into the UK. But added to this, over the next few years immigration is projected to rise a further three million plus if no meaningful intervention is undertaken by government.

Therefore even common sense dictates that such increased numbers over a relatively short period of time cannot be accommodated without the unavoidable occurrence of mind-boggling disorder and failures in our basic support systems.

In this respect, it is an impossibility to produce systems that can cope with increased nation changing demand without appropriate development lead-times being put in place in the first place.

Overall we shall see government trying to fix the problem through increased indirect taxation from this year onwards but where inevitably the system will not eventually be able to cope.

Considering, therefore, what is on the horizon we should be prepared for high inflation-busting increases in our council tax to pay for this misguided and poorly understood thinking by government.

But it has to be asked, why have our politicians allowed such an evolving situation to come about? It appears to me that they never understood or comprehended these elements fully and what was eventually going to happen to Britain through our immigration policy.

As always, reaction is the hallmark of government and where proaction never ever enters into the equation.

DR DAVID HILL, chief executive, World Innovation Foundation Charity, Bern, Switzerland.