THE census statistics concerning migrants in this country are quite worrying, especially those which show that white Britons are now in the minority in our own capital.

Fifty-five per cent of the rise in the population was directly caused by migration.

Britain is picking up the tab to feed and educate the rest of Europe and Asia at the expense of the British taxpayer who faces social services cut to the quick by a government which has lost all sense of reason.

After complaining about costs, the Government’s decision to make our NHS available to the rest of the world only proves how irresponsible it really is.

T Seale, Middlesbrough.

MY conclusions from the 2011 census are: 1. The North is the least ethnically mixed part of the country. Those from non-white backgrounds are concentrated in the conurbations.

2. The age profile of the region is concentrated towards the upper age groups. This is not the case where there are more immigrants.

3. If the North does not change, it will become a backwater because prosperity and high levels of employment requires mobility of capital and labour.

I don’t think that we in the North are less welcoming to new people, but there does appear to be an ingrained social conservatism. I don’t understand why this is the case, but it works to our collective disadvantage.

Geoffrey Bulmer, Billingham.