Sarah Desrosiers, the salon owner, is a “fundamentalist” too. She thinks it is fundamental that stylists should display their own hair if they are to cut other people’s. Unfortunately, Ms Noah thinks her kind of fundamentalism takes
precedence and is happy to bankrupt Ms Desrosiers to prove it. Perhaps this was one of the economic benefits of
multicultural Britain Gordon Broon had in mind when he attacked the Lords report in Tuesday’s press conference.

Playing the game of “think of a number”, Broon claimed immigrants boosted the economy by £6billion, yet Home Office figures released this week claimed the net benefit to each of us amounts to only 58p a week, which Sir Andrew Green, of Migration Watch UK rightly derided as “roughly a Mars bar a week”.

All such figures are bogus, anyway. With immigration swelling the population by 190,000 a year, immigration is costing us all a fortune in benefits and creaking infrastructure such as schools and hospitals.

The figure of 190,000 actually understates the change taking place in Britain. We have about 600,000 immigrants a year but we also have 400,000 emigrants, many of whom are indigenous Britons fed up with rising crime, taxes and
immigration. Official figures show one in 10 people in Britain was born overseas. The foreign-born population is growing rapidly through immigration and higher birthrates, whereas the British-born population is in decline.

In comparison to this, the economic consequences of immigration are irrelevant. Both culturally and physically, indigenous British people are inexorably becoming strangers in their own country. Meanwhile, the Government tries to disguise the reality with fig leaves such as its half-baked “Britishness” campaign.

Britain’s political independence is increasingly transferred to the EU. Meanwhile, at home, political correctness and multiculturalism gnaw away at our cultural identity.

Former Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith calls for a new bank holiday, British National Day, to boost pride in the country. What use are the symbols and trappings of nationhood if the nation itself is in the process of being abolished?