Thursday, 29 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

The public concern about immigration 
England is being changed fundamentally by large-scale immigration
The Times (29-Oct-2009)

France migrant policy criticised
Emma Jane Kirby BBC News, Paris France's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children flown into Paris has been criticised in a damning new...
BBC News (29-Oct-2009)

Home Office offers failed asylum seekers cash to return to Zimbabwe
Government threatens to begin forcibly returning those who turn down sweetened voluntary repatriation...
U TV (29-Oct-2009)

UK plans Zimbabwe asylum removals
The Home Office has announced it wants to resume the removal of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the ground was being cleared to start enforced returns "as and when the political situation develops".
Southern Counties (29-Oct-2009)

To treat or not to treat?
What happens when migrants cant pay for treatment? asks Adam...
New Law Journal (29-Oct-2009)

Cap immigration call by MP
THE projected population rise to over 70 million is dangerously unsustainable and would equate to an extra 15,000 people on the Isle of Wight, Island MP Andrew Turner has...
Isle of Wight County Press (29-Oct-2009)

The real 'political purpose' behind immigration - gerrymandering Labour's election results
One approach politicians have to getting a majority of us to vote for them is to split us up into interest groups. Their idea is that with enough grievance mongering among enough minority groups eventually a coalition will be formed that can provide a...
Daily Mail (28-Oct-2009)

Kuwait court rejects bid to unseat non-Hijab MPs
Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected an action brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (28-Oct-2009)

GMB Slams Immigration Advisory Service Over Threats To Close Four Offices Sacking 80 Workers
There is no redundancy situation at IAS say...
GMB (28-Oct-2009)

Immigration links to carbon problem
SIR While welcoming Councillor Liz Tuckers letter We need to cut our carbon missions, of October 14, its meaningless. If Coun Tucker really thought our carbon emissions and consumption of the worlds resources was unsustainable, she would be enraged at the millions of people being poured into our...
Worcester News (28-Oct-2009)

One More Trip on the Immigration Merry-Go-Round
This post on immigration prompted a pair of excellent, Chestertonian responses that merit a response. First, Carroll Barry-Walsh writes: Of course, it's the type of people we let in because there is a difference between letting in people who share our values, who want to - and take positive steps to..
The Spectator (28-Oct-2009)

Migrant crime cover-up row
A REPORT linking immigration to crime was censored by Labour, it was claimed last...
Online Sun (28-Oct-2009)

MASS IMMIGRATION COVER-UP EXPOSED
THE number of foreigners flocking to Britain has leapt by 50% in six years, say shock new figures. And furious critics claim Ministers have been secretly encouraging people to move...
Daily Star (28-Oct-2009)

EXPOSED: LABOUR'S LIES ON MIGRANTS
LABOURS attempts to hide the truth about mass immigration were dramatically exposed yesterday when it emerged warnings of rising crime as a result of its policy were airbrushed from an official...
Sunday Express (28-Oct-2009)

Migrant report 'censored'
THE Government has come under fire after it emerged possible links between mass immigration and crime were censored in a...
Online Sun (27-Oct-2009)

Labour think-tank 'airbrushed link between migrants and crime in immigration report for Blair'
Concerns about possible links between mass immigration and crime were removed from a Government immigration policy document, it was revealed today. Initial drafts of the controversial Cabinet Office report noted that there was a risk that organised criminals could exploit a rise in...
Daily Mail (27-Oct-2009)

Blair's think tank airbrushed link between crime and immigrants
Possible links between mass immigration and some crimes were censored from a keynote government report, the Standard can...
Evening Standard (27-Oct-2009)

Simon Carr: Nothing is as it seems in the elliptical world of immigration
Home Office questions. It must be said that Alan Johnson doesn't look as hopeless as he keeps saying he is. "Vote for me! I haven't got the desire, the talent, the confidence for the job!" Maybe it's a more cunning plan than we...
The Independent (27-Oct-2009)

ANGER AT £120,000 PRIVATE PLANE TO DEPORT 8 AFGHANS
A PRIVATE jet chartered to deport failed asylum seekers from the UK cost taxpayers £15,000 per passenger, it was revealed last...
Sunday Express (27-Oct-2009)

Trying to stuff the cat back into the bag
In the Daily Mail, I have written about the amazing revelation in last Fridays Evening Standard by Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter to various Labour ministers, that the government had not only deliberately encouraged mass immigration to Britain in order to destroy its identity and transform it..
The Spectator (27-Oct-2009)