Tuesday 4 August 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Home Affairs Committee report 'Managing Migration: The Points Based System"
Commenting, the Co-Chairmen of Balanced Migration Cross Party Group, Frank Field, MP & Nicholas Soames said:....
Balanced Migration (04-Aug-2009)

Twitter/Migrationwatch
'For the first time the government has recognised immigration is the main source of population growth.' 
Twitter (04-Aug-2009)

Combating the BNP - Part II
In the last part of the series, the author concentrates on what steps the mainstream political parties and opinion makers must take to combat BNP and challenge them head on the issues that give them support from parts of our community.
eGov Monitor (03-Aug-2009)

'Go home' to earn a British passport
Immigrants could speed up their progress towards British citizenship by returning to their home country. As part of the proposed points-based system for migrants who want a passport, the government is looking at rewarding workers who take skills back to their country of origin.
Metro (03-Aug-2009)

LABOUR'S LIES HAVE BROUGHT THE UK TO RUIN
LABOUR'S rhetoric on immigration is a colossal exercise in deceit.
Daily Express (03-Aug-2009)

New migrants to Britain face 'points test for citizenship'
Woolas puts forward passport plans...
Guardian.co.uk (03-Aug-2009)

EHRC report on social housing allocation to immigrants
The claim of a report published 7th July by the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - to have demonstrated that there is 'no bias in allocation of social housing to immigrants' - has been shown to be baseless by independent academic analysis.
CIVITAS (03-Aug-2009)