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WE MUST CAP IMMIGRATION
WARNING: Britain faces huge problem for 50 years
By Tom Whitehead Home Affairs Correspondent
LABOUR must cap immigration after its myths on the benefits of an open door policy were torn to shreds by a powerful group of peers yesterday.
In a devastating attack, a House of Lords inquiry said there was no economic benefit from migration.
The point-by-point onslaught also laid bare the arguments which ministers have used for allowing record numbers to come here.
The report called on the Government to now impose a limit on numbers after concluding that migrants themselves were the “biggest winners” of current policy.
One peer, an economist, warned that Britain will face pressure from migrants wanting to come here for the next 50 years at least.
The report also dismissed claims that migrants are needed to fill jobs and support the growing demand for pensions. It further warned that the in-flow could be forcing up unemployment among young Britons and pushing down wages. Campaigners who have long called for an annual limit on migration said the report was a “watershed” and Labour’s defence for its stance has been demolished.
In a crushing conclusion, inquiry chairman Lord Wakeham said: “The argument put forward by the Government that large-scale net immigration brings significant economic benefits is unconvincing. We have found no evidence to support their position.”
The report, from the Lords cross-party Economic Affairs Committee, said net immigration, which has added 1.5 million extra people in the past decade, has been “unprecedented in our history”.
Migrants now account for 12 per cent – or one in eight – of the total workforce.
The Government has continually defended its policy by arguing that mass migration brings economic benefits which outweigh any social impact.
The destruction of that defence not only leaves Labour’s policies in tatters, but means the negative pressure they have had on communities is all the greater.
More alarming, Lord Layard, a leading economist and committee member, warned: “We will have permanent pressure of people to move in our direction. Britain has an extra resource, which is the English language, for attracting people here.
“There is no doubt whatever that the pressure will remain for half a century or more.” As a result, the peers said ministers should impose an “explicit target range” for immigration and set the rules to keep within that limit.
It would effectively mean a cap on those wanting to come from outside the EU. Net migration is running at 190,000 a year after a peak of 300,000 in 2006.
Border and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said: “This report is a welcome contribution to our huge immigration shake-up, and we are already acting on practically every single recommendation.
“It proves we were right to set up the independent Migration Advisory Committee to tell us which workers our new Australian-style points system should keep out or let in.
“We’re glad to see the committee welcome the system as well as our ban on low-skilled migration from outside Europe.
“What’s more, our plan for earned citizenship will mean that only those who can speak English, pay taxes and obey Parliament’s law will be able to earn the right to stay. This is something the committee recommended.
“Our points system will be enforced by a new Border Agency to give the UK world-leading border protection and bring back systems to count foreign nationals in and out of Britain.”
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NOT A CAP, A HALT
04.06.08, 5:33pm
We don't need to cap it, we need to halt it right now.
• Posted by: MrEngland • Report Comment
AMENDMENT
02.04.08, 7:30pm
That should read, 'recently' - don't know what happened there!
• Posted by: BoggyDepot • Report Comment
WE MUST STOP, AND REVERSE, IMMIGRATION
02.04.08, 7:29pm
I watched a documentarty recentlt on the assasination, of President McKinley, by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
His reason for the killing?
Well, he said,
"Why does one man have so much power, when so many have none"
Just about sums it up really - is there a Leon Czolgosz in England?
• Posted by: BoggyDepot • Report Comment
THERE MUST BE A CAP!
01.04.08, 8:20pm
"The economic benefit of mass immigration is zero" according to the report.
No, it is strongly negative.
David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, said in his evidence to the committee that the Government had EXCLUDED costs from crime, security, the race relations process, health "tourism" and imported ailments such as TB.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/29/nimm129.xml
Increased crime alone would wipe out any economic benefit. There are hundreds of white Britons lying in graves who would be alive today if it were not for mass immigration. There are many thousands of living ones who have suffered vicious immigration crime. Millions more are going to suffer in future, because this disaster will not be reversed overnight. There should be a Nuremberg trial one day for those politicians, journalists and academics who are responsible for it.
You, Mr Brown, STINK of "Common Purpose"--you and your Marxist friends have betrayed US, betrayed our ancestors, betrayed our Armed Forces by getting into bed with the Globalists.
We are nothing to you--and we are increasingly the underdog, the second class citizen that is being taxed out of existence to fuel the Lib/Lab/Con/EUSSR/Islamophilic behemoth of multiculturalism/political correctness that is DIVIDING us so that you, the "elite", can rule us from behind your security fences and locked gates. Shame on You and Shame on this Evil government!
Do people want MORE of their lies? Vote for the Lib Dems (Lib Dhimmis), Vote for New Labour, and Vote for the so-called Conservative Party (Blue Labour).
Don't like it? VOTE BNP.. at each and EVERY opportunity. Your, and your children's futures depend on YOUR vote! Remember--the only wasted vote is a vote for ANY of the mainstream parties.
• Posted by: NoisySiamese • Report Comment
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