Friday, 28 May 2010

A selection of recent media reports

The benefits system has produced an emasculated generation who can find neither work nor a wife
Times (28-May-2010)

A lack of jobs and their poor quality will hinder Ian Duncan Smiths plans to reform the welfare system, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Recruiter (28-May-2010)

Oakington immigration reception centre bosses have applied for planning permission for the facility to stay open until 2013. Campaigners are hoping council planners will refuse the bid and force the centre where the current consent runs out at the end of next month to...
Cambridge News (28-May-2010)

They have been sent to remote Pacific islands and to the Indian Ocean now asylum-seekers intercepted in Australian waters may end up in the middle of the desert, in a near-empty former gold-mining...
The Independent (28-May-2010)

THOUSANDS of Bosnians and Albanians could soon join Eastern European migrants in gaining illegal entry to Britain after the EU announced an end to visa...
Daily Express (28-May-2010)

More than 15,000 British citizens who spent £450,000 buying new identity cards will not get their money back the Home Secretary said yesterday after committing the Government to scrapping the scheme within 100...
The Independent (28-May-2010)

A RECORD 417,000 immigrants were given the right to live in Britain permanently last year, figures showed...
The Scottish Sun (28-May-2010)

A RECORD 203,000 foreigners were granted British passports last...
Daily Star (28-May-2010)

Yesterday Iain Duncan Smith, the latest politician charged with curing the insidious British disease of welfare dependency, said: 'We literally cannot afford to go on like this'.
The Mail On Sunday (27-May-2010)

Telegraph View: Iain Duncan Smith needs all the support he can get in order to reform the benefits...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-May-2010)

The former Chief Secretary to the Treasury who wrote a controversial letter to his successor saying there was no money left speaks to Political Editor Jonathan Walker about where it all went wrong for...
IC Birmingham (27-May-2010)

An illegal immigrant who conned the former Attorney General into hiring her as a cleaner has been jailed for a total of eight months at the Old...
Sunday Express (27-May-2010)

The Indian population in Australia has doubled in six years, and India has become the biggest source of migrants to the country, latest statistics...
Irish Sun (27-May-2010)

Long-term immigration to the UK dropped by 9% in the year to last September, according to new figures. About 503,000 people came into the country over the period, compared with 555,000 in the previous 12...
Belfast Telegraph (27-May-2010)

The number of British passports issued to foreigners had soared by more than half, latest Home Office figures reveal today. A record total of 203,790 were issued in 2009 with more than half of the recipients coming from Africa and the Indian sub...
Mail Online (27-May-2010)

The ID cards scheme is to be scrapped within 100 days saving the country more than £1 billion, Theresa May has...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-May-2010)

Immigrants are being granted British passports at the rate of one every three minutes, according to new...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-May-2010)

There was much talk of fair immigration during the election campaign. Former immigration minister Phil Woolas and others have complained that Labour did not sufficiently publicise its anti-immigration plans, like the startlingly inhumane policy to withdraw welfare benefits from...
Evening Standard (27-May-2010)

London's population is expected to soar by nearly 10 per cent to a new high of more than 8.3 million within eight years despite a slight fall in overall immigration, official figures show...
Evening Standard (27-May-2010)

... No 5: May 2010 Date: 27 May 2010 Coverage: UK Theme: Migration A summary of the quarterly releases of official migration data. This edition covers those quarterly datasets released on 27 May 2010 and provides links to migration data released on that...
Sourcews UK (27-May-2010)