'Passports were given to foreigners at the rate of two a minute last year.Officials approved a record 203,865 citizenship applications, 58 per cent more than in 2008.
Another 190,000 immigrants were given the right to settle in the UK in 2009 – a rise of 30 per cent on the year before.'
'Why do you show me this?
A million! Start, eyes!
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A further million! I'll see no more.'
(Apologies to Will Shakespeare for slight liberties taken!)
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