We hear a lot about the free movement of labour, but today we learn another reality, that with the EU also comes free movement of crime - the number of EU citizens convicted of crimes in Britain has all but trebled in the space of several years.
From 10,736 EU nationals convicted of crimes in 2007, we hit 27,563 in 2010. This year already looks on course to exceed that by many thousands.
Even worse, we're also failing to remove them from the country once they are convicted of crimes - 2010 saw 27,563 convictions, and a miniscule 1,480 people removed from the UK.
Topping the list of EU offenders are the those from the Eastern European states - Poland, Romania, and Lithuania.
Close on thirty thousand convictions in one year - ain't enrichment brilliant, and bear in mind that those figures are only for convictions of EU nationals, factor in those criminals from outside of the EU and the imported crimewave we stagger under is enormous.
The total number of EU citizens convicted of crimes since 2007? 109,568.
Again, bear in mind that is just convictions, we all know that many crimes are committed from which no conviction results.
Our jails are overcrowded, our police and courts system are overstretched, and we keep adding to the burden which they have to bear.
Britains enrichment, both from within and without the EU, comes at a terribly high price in crime and the costs of dealing with that crime.
Proper crime prevention should begin at our borders - and, sadly, it seems we have very little in the way of borders left, and no chance of throwing out most criminals once they are here.
Expect things to get a lot worse, the foreign crimewave will continue until we take back control of our borders.
We hear a lot about the free movement of labour, but today we learn another reality, that with the EU also comes free movement of crime - the number of EU citizens convicted of crimes in Britain has all but trebled in the space of several years.
