Immigration: political class live in a different Britain.

How can it be that when 79%+ of the public oppose opening Britain's borders to Bulgaria and Romania, both Coalition government parties and the opposition party all support it?

The reality is that those running the country are desensitised from the damage of large scale uncontrolled immigration from Eastern Europe and indeed benefit in some ways from it. After all, it isn't going to be Little Johnny the privately-educated offspring of MP X who is trying to get a minimum wage job at a factory or punting for work as a bricklayer. Instead the politicians and big business point to the benefits of lots of newcomers to the country working hard in minimum wage jobs. Good for them, but they are screwing British workers who are left to rot on the dole. Our young in particular are routinely abused by Labour and the Tories as lazy, bone-idle and useless and the assumption is made that before Eastern Europeans arrived, the fruit didn't get picked and the country was on verge of collapse. Give me a break.

This is another issue where those in Westminster sow the seeds of pain for which the Great British general public pay the price for. Cameron talks in his ridiculously dishonest tone about controlling immigration, when we have opened our wide open doors to an entire continent. And in 2014 the warm welcome from Westminster extends to as many citizens of Romania and Bulgaria who wish to come. The UK's job market is about to become even more saturated with those looking for entry-level work.

Youth unemployment is at 22%. Wages are being pushed down. In the first year of the Coalition, more than 90% of jobs went to non-British born workers. It may benefit the wealthy Cameron's and the Miliband's of this world to have treat immigrant labour at their beck and call, but for the ordinary working man it has caused massive social and economic problems.

The social media revolution

Grant Shapps: grammar school boy done good.

The rise of Grant Shapps to Conservative Party Chairman today marks a high point in his career as a guy who came from a normalish background. But it is likely that in forthcoming years, reshuffles at government level will find it increasingly hard to appoint people who went through the state schooling system.

The problem is there for all to see: right now the government is dominated by those from very privileged backgrounds. There is a severe lack of contenders for top government jobs who went through the state school system, mostly because unlike Shapps they didn't get the opportunities that a grammar school education can afford young boys and girls who may not have had the best starts in life.

Hopefully with a grammar school boy in such a senior role within the Conservatives, the arguments will be made again. That non-selective free schools are one thing, but a selective education system that enables a society based on meritocracy is quite another. Somehow I don't see that happening as the Tories long ago seemed to have turned their back on grammar schools, but nonetheless Shapps rise proves the point that these schools worked.

Why keep Anders Breivik alive?

77 lives, mostly very young lives, were ended by Anders Breivik. Another 240 were injured as he bombed and shot innocent people.

He isn't insane. He's an evil human being who committed pre-meditated murder on the basis of his own warped world view. He planned these attacks and carried them out.

And now? 21 years in prison. A prison life where he will no doubt be well fed, clothed, watered and protected by other inmates at a cost to the families who have lost loved ones to his blood lust.

He will need to be separated and kept away from other prisoners. Even those who have committed heinous crimes themselves will want to extinguish the life of a man who targeted children. Taxpayers will pay to keep this beast alive. Why?

This is cut and dry. He committed these crimes. He meant to. It may be all well and good to play the bleeding heart angle but seriously: if your child or mum or father had been shot down by this animal, would you really think justice was him being looked after in an isolated, private part of a prison? I would want him dead in a heartbeat.

The death penalty in cases such as this is not about stooping to his level. It is about a punishment that fits the crime. For Anders Breivik to be kept alive and protected by the state is surely a sick perversion of true human justice.

Conservatives are getting very rattled about UKIP.

So Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Party's only anti-EU MEP, wants an electoral pact with UKIP at the next General Election. This is significant.

It demonstrates the increasing popularity of UKIP and the likely impact it will have at the next General Election which does, after all, come just one year after the 2014 European Election that UKIP could win outright.

Don't forget at the last General Election, then-UKIP Leader Lord Pearson's private but direct offer of a pact to the Conservatives was utterly ignored by the party.

I don't think any such pact will happen next time round, for a myriad of reasons. Very few Tory candidates are actually anti-EU in terms of advocating withdrawal - they number about a dozen or so. UKIP is developing beyond a party that only cares about this issue anyway.

As for the notion of David Cameron instructing candidates to stand down in seats to give UKIP a clear run? I won't hold my breath.

The truth is that Daniel Hannan belongs in UKIP. The Conservative Party, as it left Stuart Wheeler, Lord Hesketh and Hannan's former colleague Roger Helmer, has left him. A Tory Prime Minister is in office and is presiding over a shambolic government that is increasing the amount we give to Brussels, that stands against grammar schools and which generally buys into the notion of a high tax economy.

Britain's foreign criminal base is a revolving-door.

There was an interesting documentary last night on Channel 4, the topic being pickpockets in London. These uncaring individuals pick out victims to nick items from, in many cases the type of items that hold on them irreplaceable photos and family videos.

One thing that struck me, though it isn't exactly news, is the amount of foreign criminals coming to London for a life of organised crime. Mercenaries from across Europe use the EU's open borders to enter Britain and make a fortune by thieving. compared to the paltry wages on offer for honest graft back home, the risk/reward ratio is tantalising.

The problem is that the worst that can happen to these people is that they are arrested, convicted and put in prison - though it remains extremely difficult to actually receive a custodial sentence in the UK given how full our prisons are. Even the deterrent of UK prison just doesn't cut it though.

After all, with cable TV for good behaviour, astro turf football pitches, pool tables, gyms and the rest, our prisons are like a Butlins compared to the harsh conditions that hardened foreign criminals are used to. Human rights gone mad has led to a cushdy life for criminal scum, even if they are caught.

And so after putting these scumbags away for short terms, funded by the British taxpayer, they come out. They can't be deported due to the EU's open borders and so back out on the streets they go with their criminal gangs, with nothing to lose and targets around them everywhere.

Our foreign criminal base needs to be dealt with and the remedy is really quite straight forward. Take back our borders. Only allow in those who we require economically. Kick out those who commit crime. Ensure that Britain's prisons are places that you notoriously do not want to end up doing time in.

Jubilee identity.

The last few days have been tremendous in terms of British national identity. With the Jubilee celebrations, Union Jack flags have been displayed everywhere and ordinary folks for once, aren't fearful of displaying national pride. Our flag, for now, isn't the preserve of a few extremist nutters. That's the way it should be all the time and is one of the reasons that I love patriotic America.

It is an exciting time to be English. We have a tremendous Queen, an Olympic games that will hopefully showcase our nation well and an England football team that I think will do quite well at the European Championships.

Times are tough, much is wrong with our country but we are still an exceptional nation comprising of fundamentally decent people. I love my country.