QUOTE OF THE MONTH

'What I dislike about it is this element of parasitism. These people who want to come to other countries from their own benighted places. They twist the laws, they hire lawyers, they do bad things to get residence. And then, having got that, they wish to destroy [the society] which has welcomed them. I think it is simply awful.

At the most basic level it's a kind of ingratitude.'

Sir Vidia Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad, being interviewed recently.