'We need to close our borders immediately' - Social media is loving this writer's migration rant

Emlyn Pearce was motivated to write his Facebook post by the images of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria. Photo / Facebook

A South African writer who lives in London has fired up the internet with an explosive rant on Facebook about migration.

It's not what you think:

Emlyn Pearce was motivated to write his Facebook post - which has gone viral - by the images of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.

Here is a transcript of his post:

Emigration is completely out of control in this country, and I'm sick of it.
I'm not staying quiet any more. You can't walk down a street in Jamaica or Hong Kong or India without hearing someone speaking English, and in Canada and Australia we have even introduced our own legal system, decimated local communities and installed our own head of state! DISGUSTING! English has now been imposed as the official language of 57 sovereign countries! FIFTY SEVEN!!! What the hell? Who do we think we are?! And the government is doing nothing: any British person can just pack their bags and go and live anywhere in the world at ANY TIME and nobody in the British government will do anything to stop them. If I wanted to, I could just get on a plane to Germany tomorrow, get a job in their booming economy and live there for the rest of my life! My parents could up and retire to Spain or Portugal at a moment's notice! Why should we have that right? It's political correctness gone mad! (And it's also probably, somehow, part of the war on Christmas, and health and safety and women thinking it's ok to wear comfortable, unsexy clothing.)

The figures speak for themselves:

1,300,000 Britons live in Australia; 761,000 in Spain; 678,000 in the USA; 603,000 in Canada; 291,000 in Ireland (11,200 of whom are drawing unemployment benefit from the Irish state), and even 8,500 in Mexico and 7,100 in Kuwait! We're literally EVERYWHERE! I bet there's at least one branch of Greggs in the Falklands.

We need to close our borders immediately before the situation gets even worse for everyone else. We are sleepwalking into a nightmare where a third of the world will be overrun by the British! AGAIN!

EDIT: To all of you really hench army guys sending me hate mail for writing this: I am gay, and I will furiously pleasure myself to your profile picture. Just so you know.

Mr Pearce told Buzzfeed: "I thought it was time to remind people that this migration thing goes both ways."

He said the response to his post had been overwhelmingly positive. "The most moving [messages] have been from immigrants or their children: 'Your stuff on here is brilliant mate, honestly if I had a hat I would take it off for you! As a second generation immigrant living in Scotland I encounter my fair share of racist abuse, nice to know there's plenty of good-uns like you still around!'"