Committed to control immigration
Posted by Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow, at 09:21, Thu 19 November 2009:
After a decade of uncontrolled immigration, Gordon Brown's first speech last week for two years on this subject has been properly pilloried for its hypocrisy. He promised to tighten up the system and claimed his Government had stepped up action on removal of foreign criminals and illegal immigrants.
Britain benefits from immigration, but not uncontrolled immigration. Since 1997 Labour’s open–door immigration policy has seen the largest and most sustained rise in immigration in the UK’s history, a five-fold increase in the ten years to 2007.
Recently published figures showed that 512,000 people came to the UK as immigrants in the year to December 2008, little changed on 527,000 in the year to December 2007. These figures show the pressure immigration places on public services such as housing, health and schools. It also accounts for 70% of the projected increase in the country's population projected for the next 20 years.
A future Conservative Government is committed to deal with Labour’s deliberate policy of increasing immigration. Amongst our proposals are introduction of an explicit annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants. We will ensure our borders are properly policed, by introducing a dedicated border police force to protect the UK from illegal immigration, organised immigration crime and human trafficking.
But we will also introduce measures to ensure that everyone coming to this country is ready to embrace the core values of British society.
Being committed to deal with immigration allows Conservatives to provide a credible alternative, not only to Labour's failures in this area, but also to those political extremists who are seeking to exploit people's understandable concerns over future population pressures.
We must reject extremist views of racism, intolerance and brutality that fly in the face of this country’s history and heritage.
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Posted by Barry Edward Capsey, 12:37, Thu 19 November 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
Stopping non EU aspiring immigrants might make a little difference, the EU's open border policy ensures we're going to be ever more deeply swamped by so-called LEGAL immigrants. As ever the big problem is the EU, who else? Allied to what many perceive to be a bright pink communist administration, here called the Labour Party, slavishly following and 'gold plating' most of the crazy MANDATORY EU regulations. Suits Brown and co as most incomers will be potential Labour voters. NO-ONE knows the real numbers now here, there aren't even any 'informed guesses' within half a million!
Posted by tony phillips, 18:11, Thu 19 November 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
David cameron has said that the levels of immigration will be maitained and, that we should bend towards Muslims and welcome them. Mr Dunne states, "We must reject extremist views of racism,intolerance and brutality that fly in the face of this country's history and heritage" He obviously didn't take note of Mr Jack Straw's comment that the white race in this country should be obliterated. New Labour have sought to do this since 1997 and will continue to do this if re-elected. The European Union ordered the flooding of this country with immigrants to destabilise and destroy the country and democracy which the EU is against entirely. Only the Democratic British national Party can stop the rot and return the country to it's former greatness.