to live with us for a long time. are, bluntly, too many people too squeamish? i think they are. i think too many politicians are too squeamish to tackle this issue, and they're worried about being accused of racism or of being uncompassionate, and i think that that's letting the public down, because i don't think that these are right—wing opinions. i think these are mainstream british opinions that are shared by the vast majority of the british public. and we have made promises as a party for many, many years to bring down the levels of net migration, legal migration, and to stop the boats, and i don't want tojust be another politician who makes those promises and doesn't follow through on them. so, it goes without saying, there might be a number of people watching and listening to this who have a different view about immigration and who think it's in fact good for the country and who think perhaps the uk should be more compassionate. we probably don't have time to get into that whole debate, but i just want to ask you, on that subject, you say it's one of the big ills facing this country —