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Rod Liddle

I’d rather have a German next door too — and I have the figures to show why

They really are exceptionally law-abiding. But maybe they’re planning something

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

Should we be worried about the vast numbers of German-born people living covertly in the United Kingdom? The Office for National Statistics estimates that in 2011 some 297,000 Germans were resident here, the fifth largest non-British-born contingent (after Indians, Poles, Pakistanis and the Irish respectively). What the hell are they all up to? Sitting in smartly furnished homes, biding their time, and waiting, waiting.

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