THE letter from Colin Archer (Saturday, April 30) on asylum seekers was so much hogwash. His picture of companies having to close down without them makes me wonder how we managed without them previously.

The so-called low unemployment figures was engineered by this government first by encouraging employers to take on school leavers free of charge, their wages being paid by we taxpayers.

Then they lowered the standards of qualifications for universities. The result is that we've more than doubled university places. This has of course lowered the reputation of our once world respected universities.

C R LITTLE,

Droitwich.