A selection of recent media reports
ISLAM THREATENS OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY SAY FRENCH AND GERMANS ISLAM is considered a threat by millions of French and Germans and most. Express.co.uk (By Peter Allen) (07-Jan-2011)
Latvian travels 1,500miles to squat in Britain because it's an 'easy touch'... and ends up living in a £10m mansion A Latvian artist who moved to the UK after hearing how easy it was to live here for free ended up in a multi-million mansion. Daily Mail (06-Jan-2011)
Calls for action over sex gangs Date published: 06 January 2011 An investigation by The Times into the. Rochdale Online (06-Jan-2011)
Islam seen as 'a threat' to national identity by almost half of French and Germans Islam is considered a 'threat' by millions of French and Germans, with.. Mail Online (Peter Allen) (06-Jan-2011)
Bogus students cost country £500 million a year, think-tank warns URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk Source: Telegraph More than 30,000... Society of Procurement Officers (06-Jan-2011)
Bogus students cost country £500m a year, think-tank warns More than 30,000 bogus students are taking jobs in the UK every year... Telegraph.co.uk (By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor) (06-Jan-2011)
ASYLUM SEEKER SUES TO GET OUT OF HERE A FAILED asylum seeker is suing immigration chiefs after he was stopped. Daily Star (Gary Nicks, Political Editor) (06-Jan-2011)
HOW FAKE FOREIGN STUDENTS COST US £500M EACH YEAR LABOURS shambolic failure to tackle Britains bogus visa scandal costs... Sunday Express (Martyn Brown) (06-Jan-2011)
Fake foreign students vanish into black market jobs and cost taxpayers £493m a year Bogus students from overseas are costing taxpayers up to £493million a.. Mail Online (James Slack) (05-Jan-2011)
Liberals are completely deluded about Islam in Britain and the existence of sectarianism Liberal Conspiracy has a post playing down a story about conversions to. Telegraph Blogs (By Ed West) (05-Jan-2011)
Illegal immigrant teenager jailed for live-in role at drugs factory A TEENAGER who came to Britain illegally has been jailed after being... This is Staffordshire (By sentinel reporter newsdesk@thesentinel.co.uk) (05-Jan-2011)
Asylum seeker Rashid Ali sues Britain for trying to stop him returning to Morocco A failed asylum seeker is suing the UK Border Agency for locking him up. Mail Online (Rebecca Camber) (05-Jan-2011)
Greece plans Turkey border fence to tackle migration Greece has announced plans to build a 12km (eight-mile) fence along... BBC News; Isle of Man (03-Jan-2011)
British terrorists 'offered safe house by al-Qaeda-linked French gangsters' British terrorists were offered a safe house by French gangsters... Telegraph.co.uk (By Duncan Gardham, and Peter Allen) (03-Jan-2011)
Greece to build 128-mile anti-migrant wall Greece has announced plans to build a controversial new wall along its.. Telegraph.co.uk (By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels) (03-Jan-2011)
Ghanaians Jailed in UK for running forgery documents factory Two Ghanaian nationals have received prison sentences following the... Zim Diaspora (Editor) (03-Jan-2011)
The Government goes easy on suspected terrorists thanks to the Lib Dems Quite a few unexpected things happened in 2010, but at least some... Telegraph Blogs (By Norman Tebbit) (03-Jan-2011)
Spanish downturn ends immigrants' dream of better life After losing her job as a maid several months ago, 26-year-old Magaly... Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (Elisa Santafe) (02-Jan-2011)
Foreign drivers parking illegally 'costing councils millions of pounds' Councils across the UK wrote off thousands of parking tickets worth millions of pounds in the last two years as they cannot trace drivers of foreign-registered vehicles they have been issued to. Daily Mail (31-Dec-2010)
The era of low predictability PROGRESS REVIEW 2010: History tells us that when Labour loses an... Progress (30-Dec-2010)
Press Releases
Urgent Action Needed On Bogus Students Says Report. Cost to taxpayer approaches £500 million a year. 6 January, 2011
Much stricter controls on students coming to the UK are called for in a new paperout today from think-tank MigrationWatch.
The paper points out that, despite more than a ¼ million ‘students’ arriving every year under the Points Based System (PBS), there are no interviews before a visa is issued and no checks are made on their departure. Based on Home Office research, the paper estimates that about 32,000 a year join the illegal workforce. In practice, this means that these overstayers are very likely to displace British workers giving rise to substantial hidden costs in the region of £500 million a year.
The number of student arrivals doubled between 2001 and 2008 to 175,000. By March 2010, the year after the introduction of the PBS for students, the total increased dramatically to 235,000. Student applications from Nepal increased by more than 1000%, from Bangladesh by over 300% and from India by 88%.
The paper recognises the benefits to the UK of genuine students. They provide revenue for British colleges and associated employment; their expenditure on living costs is a benefit to the economy and to the balance of payments; they add to the variety and energy of the student population and, on return, they have an understanding of our language and culture that will influence them for the rest of their lives.
‘However, problems arise when a "student’s" real intention is to remain in Britain and work illegally. Some do not even turn up to begin their courses, others stay on afterwards. Here, the balance is quite different’, said Migrationwatch Chairman, Sir Andrew Green.
‘By working illegally they take a job that would otherwise be available for a British worker who remains unemployed. The cost to the taxpayer of benefits for the extra unemployed could approach £500 million a year. Such illegal workers also tend to hold down wages at the lower end and enable unscrupulous employers to compete unfairly with honest employers who offer decent wages and conditions’
‘The 2.5 million who are now unemployed have a right to expect that the government will clamp down on bogus students who are taking jobs that should be available to them,’ he said.
Migration – The Environmental Consequences for the UK 29 December, 2010
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the UK will soar by almost 515 million tonnes over the period from 2008 to 2033 solely as a result of the projected increase in population due to net migration over that period, says a new report out today.
The report from think-tank Migrationwatch on the environmental effects of large scale immigration says that net migration is expected to add seven million to the population between 2008 and 2033. This population growth will increase the UK’s GHG emissions by almost 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the five years to 2015, by over 125 million tonnes by 2020, and by almost 515 million tonnes by 2033.
The Government is committed under the Climate Change Act to reduce UK GHG emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. To achieve this challenging target, annual emissions by 2033 will have to fall by almost 240 million tonnes of carbon compared with their current level. However, the population increase caused by immigration over this period, will add about 33 million tonnes of carbon every year to UK GHG emissions making that commitment even harder and more expensive to achieve.
‘Climate change on its own is an immensely serious issue but the huge projected rise in population over this period – more than two thirds due to immigration - will also have a host of other implications for the quality of life which we, and more particularly, our children and grandchildren will enjoy - or endure - in the coming decades,’ said Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch chairman.
‘For example if all the projected increase in population which will result from the continuation of present levels of immigration was to be accommodated in urban areas, we would have to build 60 towns the size of Slough, or 20 cities the size of Leicester, or else urbanise areas equivalent in area to Surrey or Warwickshire,’ he said.
‘It is very clear that the vast majority of the UK population are totally opposed to this outcome.’
Sir Andrew said that England is already one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. Increasing population pressures will disproportionately impact England where population is projected to increase by 18 per cent, leading to densities of 465 persons per square kilometre by 2033.
In the South East of England, by 2033, population densities are projected to increase by 20 per cent, to a level one third higher than those of the Netherlands now with very serious additional pressure on the region’s infrastructure.
‘The effects of such large scale urbanisation would include a loss of wildlife habitats, damage to the UK’s biodiversity and a detrimental impact on the ‘amenity’ that people derive from the rural environment and contact with nature, as well as fundamentally changing the nature and appearance of large parts of the country for ever,’ said Sir Andrew.
‘These are relatively intangible issues - difficult if not impossible to value – but, nonetheless, of great importance to the many people who do not want to see the character of our country changed out of all recognition.’
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