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The Prime Minister's Speech Ducked the Impact of Immigration on Population
November, 13 2009In his speech on 12 November, the Prime Minster made no mention of the official population projections which show that the UK population will reach 70 million in 2029. Some commentators have claimed that these projections are "meaningless". Migrationwatch research (see Briefing Paper 9.25) puts this issue in prospective and shows that 70 million is very likely unless the government take very strong measures to cut back immigration.
Migrationwatch Reaction to Prime Minister's Speech on Immigration
November, 12 2009Sir Andrew Green said that "The Prime Minister is still in deep denial about the population crisis which we now face. His government have brought 3 million immigrants to Britain and they will add another 7 million to our population in the next 25 years. In this context the measures, largely re-announced, in his speech are trivial. This is totally unacceptable."
The Points Based System: Why it will not stop our population hitting 70 million
November, 11 2009"At his press conference on 10 November, the Prime Minister claimed that the Goverment's Points Based System "has made a huge difference" to immigration.
However, our study of the system reveals very serious weaknesses. We think that it has eliminated the professional judgement of Immigration Officers in favour of a complex box ticking process which is wide open to fraud. (see Briefing Paper 3.9)
Furthermore, the Government's own assessment is that it would only have reduced immigration by 20,000 if it had been operating throughout 2008. A reduction of at least 100,000 a year is needed if the population of the UK is to be kept below 70million."
Migrationwatch Chairman, Sir Andrew Green's comment on Home Secretary, Alan Johnson's interview with the Independent
November 9, 2009"At last he has woken up. In July, after his remark that he did not lose any sleep over the prospect of a population of 70 million, we conducted an opinion poll in his own constituency of Hull. 80% thought he was out of touch with people like them. 85% were concerned about a population of 70 million. 83% wanted immigration cut from its 2007 level of 237,000 to less than 50,000.
What do you have to do to get the attention of the political class?"
Press Release
Labour Concealed a shift in immigration policy
November 9, 2009In Parliament today the Immigration Minister denied that there had been any change in immigration policy in 2001 nor, therefore, any political motive. However, there is clear evidence of a Labour shift in immigration policy in 2001-2 which was concealed from the public at the time, according to the attached Briefing Paper by think tank Migrationwatch.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, MigrationwatchUK, said " The government went to great lengths to keep secret documents dealing with immigration policy. Now we know why. Looking back we can see clear evidence that recent revelations about a political motive in promoting mass immigration were indeed correct."
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