Sunday, 17 January 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Camerons call for immigration cap woos voters in Labour seats
DAVID CAMERON could clinch a general election victory by placing a cap of 50,000 on net immigration, a new opinion poll shows.
Sunday Times (17-Jan-2010)

We're still a long way from an honest debate about immigration
It is now generally recognised in British politics that expressing concern about the scale of recent immigration into the country is not necessarily a sign of...
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (17-Jan-2010)

Eastern European immigration 'has hit low-paid Britons'
Influx of 1.5m eastern Europeans means UK's lowest-paid workers are earning less now, report...
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (17-Jan-2010)

Anjem Choudary: Im smiling because sharia is coming
The radical Muslim who threatened to hold a march through Wootton Bassett is ready to defy the ban on his group and says a coup could make Britain an Islamic...
Times Online (17-Jan-2010)

TAKE BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AWAY FROM CONTROVERSIAL CLERIC
WHAT a pity we don't have laws that can actually take British citizenship away from...
News of the World (17-Jan-2010)

Muslim peer: rising immigration is 'damaging race relations'
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, a leading Muslim peer, has urged the Government to keep a tight rein on immigration and warned the issue is damaging race...
Telegraph.co.uk (16-Jan-2010)

Terrorist network in Britain is a security threat
US security officials claim the level of al-Qaeda activity in the UK poses a major security threat at home and abroad.
Timesonline (16-Jan-2010)

Islam4UKs radical spokesman Anjem Choudary pledges to keep preaching
Anjem Choudary sits in a North London café, sips on a vanilla latte and then launches into a tirade about the decadence of the West. With machinegun delivery, he expounds on numerous themes: British Muslims are suffering persecution because the Government rules by division; Sharia will solve all...
Times Online (16-Jan-2010)

UKIP woos white working class with call for total ban on burkas
The UK Independence Party is to call for a ban on the burka and the niqab the Islamic cloak that covers women from head to toe and the mask that conceals most of the face claiming they affront British...
Times Online (16-Jan-2010)

Somali who hid WPC Sharons killer is allowed to stay in the UK
A SOMALI jailed for sheltering a policewoman's killer won the right to stay in Britain yesterday. Outrage erupted after Hewan Gordon, 38, won an appeal against a Government bid to deport...
Online Sun (16-Jan-2010)

£20M-A-YEAR BURDEN OF TRANSLATING FOR MIGRANTS
TOWN hall bosses are lavishing £20million-a-year on translating documents into 75 languages as a result of Labour s open door to immigrants, the Daily Express reveals...
Daily Express (16-Jan-2010)