Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Migration added 239,000 to Britain's population last year - because immigration remained high while Britons can no longer afford to leave the country to live abroad.
The figure is more than a fifth higher than in 2009 and the second biggest annual total ever.
The increase came despite Coalition promises to curb immigration. The number of immigrants - 575,000 last year - has run at a similar level for the past seven years.
Matt Cavanagh, associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank, slammed the figures, saying: 'Politicians shouldn't promise what they can't deliver, particularly on immigration.
'Before the election, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats said immigration was out of control; afterwards, they said they would cut it dramatically. Neither was true.''
A quarter of all all kids born were of foreign descent. The largest percentage being from Poland and Pakistan. However 4 out of every 5 Poles was working compared to 7 out of every 10 Brits.
What amazes me is that 3 out of 4 students allowed into the country were from outside the EU. Surely that door should be closed as most people know that this is a back door for settlement,overstayers from those not normally allowed to live and stay in the UK. This door has to be shut.
Even though these figures only cover the last 12 months of the Coalition governments reign their reply was as usual to blame it on the Labour Party. I wonder how long they will be allowed to get away with blaming the last govt before the 'joke wears thin' on the British public.
Part of the above was extracted from the Mail for accuracy purposes.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#2
The figure has increased by a staggering amount since David Cameron came to power. But we all remember his claims during thise big TV debates that he was going to reduce immigration to the
"tens of thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands".
He hasnt managed it nor come anywhere near it. Once again it shows how easy it is to gripe in opposition but once in power the challenge is often impossible.
What drives immigration is the demand from employers here in the UK for workers willing to actually work. The demand comes from those who are driving the economy forward, the employers, so who is going to stop them in the current process of economic rebuild.
Its a difficult one.
Immigration from outside the EU is one thing but as was said on Newsnight last night, the employers are keen on workers from the eastern side of the EU because they do the job. There is always jobs to be done, and they will do the job with no griping whingeing or grumbling. They just get on with it and thats what employers want.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#3
This is indeed continued bad news.
Bad news, that is, for the electorate and for the people of Britain in general. Where is the choice come election time?
Those, upon whom we rely -it's said, insist on employing only immigrants and both the main political partys are content to let the futures of the British people (all those school leavers too) to continue to slide.
I wonder if all the expense of interpretors carries over to 'electoral services' too? Do the Reds and the Blues need the votes of these invaders to get them to/ keep them in, power?
Plus the clear admission that one has to say anything to get elected...it's all part of the game.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
just a matter of businesses being pandered to whilst the general population suffer.
wage rates driven down and services overstretched.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#5
Workers from the East are the best of the best in their own country and therefore get the minimum wage jobs here without problem, earning about three times more than they would at home.
However, people overlook the fact that in eastern Europe, there is an unemployment rate possibly even higher than in the West, including Britain.
Those who are unemployed in the East of the EU receive unemployment benefits (in Poland JSA is 178 euros a month, not to mention housing benefits), and this money comes from the western economies (Britain pays 15 billion pounds-worth a year to the EU and gets 9 Billion of 'em back.
In fact, add what Britain pays to the EU to what Germany, France, Holland and several others in the North-West of Europe pay to the EU, and calculate that this money goes mainly to the eastern EU states, and the result is, that we and a number of western European economies are paying benefits to the unemployed in the East
So one could argue that the unemployed in the eastern EU countries are "lazy" and "unwilling to work", (I don't think they are personally, but rather victims of the Great EU Superstate and its mad-house policies).
Fact is, we in the West pay their benefits in their own country, and their best of the best come here and get the jobs, and our "lazy" and "unwilling to work" unfortunates also have to live on benefits.
It's not nice of you want to live a happy life!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
Sadly, there is no immigration control, so every part of our services are stretched to the limit.
We can't effectively control immigration until we leave the EU and there's no chance of that.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
oddly enough roger not an e.u. thing.
haven't got the figures to hand but tha vast majority of our recent immigrants hail from outside of brian's e.u.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#8
so roger
=your saying cameron lied?????
got people to vote tory knowing they couldnt keepo there promises
not much to be proud of there.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#9
that is true howard,i think you will find that the eu gets the blame for every thing these days.
going back to to 50's one goverment another brought in west indians [jamcans] into to the country to help rebuild and do jobs us brits wouldnt do.
