My response to this Telegraph article
"...and then professed itself bewildered by the complaints from those who found themselves unable to cope with the flow of new arrivals."
I'm glad you included the rider "professed". It was a deliberate policy forced on the British public by the Labour party for two reasons; one pragmatic and the other ideological.
The Labour leaders calculated that most immigrants who qualify to vote give their support to the Labour party therefore by increasing their numbers and perpetuating the electoral injustice of smaller constituencies in inner city wards, they would guarantee an in inbuilt electoral advantage. The Liberal Democrats being the willing fools they are, ensured that this particular injustice will be maintained until at least the next election, after which, it may be too late to do anything about it.
Of more concern, is the ideological root for Labour's policy which conforms the the methods proposed by the Marxist Institute for Social Research of the Frankfurt School.
This group of German/American academics sought nothing less than the destruction of Western Judeo-Christian civilization.
To further this objective, they devised a program to, as they put it :
"...reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring [it] down....
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution – but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future – the School recommended (among other things):
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family..."
http://www.catholictruthscotland.com/blog/2012/12/the-frankfurt-school-changing-the-culture/