Press Releases
Miliband still in denial on Labour’s immigration failure –
they didn’t “see it”, they caused it
27 September, 2011
Net foreign immigration under Labour was over three million yet their leader’s only reference to immigration in his Conference speech was a single sentence:
“And we have seen immigration policy which didn’t work for the people whose jobs, living standards and communities were affected”.
“They didn’t see it. They caused it”, said Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK. “The only question is whether it was deliberate or simply incompetence or both. It is shameful that this is all Miliband now has to say about Labour’s most lasting legacy to our society, despite the widespread public concern about mass immigration.”
Meanwhile, the shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been making lame excuses on the Today Programme. First she implied that the problem was due to East European migration when at most only a fifth of Labour’s three million immigrants came from Eastern Europe. Then she said that Italy and Spain had recently seen much higher net migration than the UK. This is simply a red herring. What she failed to mention was that both those countries have a very low birth rate so their populations would fall without immigration. By contrast, in the UK our population would be roughly stable without immigration while at presently projected levels it will take our population to 70 million within 20 years, equivalent to seven cities the size of Birmingham, with two thirds of the increase due to immigration. Nor did Ms Cooper mention that youth unemployment in Italy is now 28% and in Spain it is over 40%.
A selection of recent media reports
UK Immigration issues for Indians raised in UK Minister Kenneth Clarke visit Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma recently raised concerns wi UK Immigration (28-Sep-2011)
UK Opposition Labour Party says their previous immigration policy was wrong The UK Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband has said that when the Labour Party was in powe UK Immigration (28-Sep-2011)
India to push for relaxed visa rules to UK India is set to press for a relaxation in visa rules and the easing of restrictions on the movement of professionals from India t UK Immigration (28-Sep-2011)
‘TOO EASY’ ON MIGRANTS WHO HAVE NO ENGLISH TRANSLATING official documents  discourages immigrants from learning English and hinders integration, a council l Express.co.uk (28-Sep-2011)
Home truths and the death of New Labour ) Forget that he has a deficit of charisma that makes Greece’s economic shortfall seem modest and that his coaches need to work The Mail On Sunday (27-Sep-2011)
Labour's mealy-mouthed 'apologies' for immigration levels are doubly insulting Paul Waugh has highlighted how Labour have been mainlining on immigration a Telegraph Blogs (27-Sep-2011)
Labour is wrong to apologise for its record on immigration It appears to have become conventional wisdom in the Westminster village that the previous Labour govern Independent Blogs (27-Sep-2011)
Jamaican man jailed for identity fraud after living in Manchester for 14 years A Jamaican man who set up an events business under a false name has been jailed for identi Manchester Evening News (27-Sep-2011)
Council translations discourage immigrants from learning English, claims politician Expensive translations of leaflets by local authorities should be st Telegraph.co.uk (27-Sep-2011)
Jailed fraudster had hundreds of fake IDs An immigration fraudster, who was caught with a cache of fake identities at Belfast docks, has been jailed for 18 months. BBC News Northern Ireland (27-Sep-2011)
Illegal workers found at Gloucester Chopsticks takeaway Three illegal workers have been found working in a Gloucestershire takeaway, the UK Border Agency has sa BBC News England (27-Sep-2011)
Immigrants ‘need to learn English’ COUNCILS should stop producing literature in foreign languages to encourage more immigrants to learn English, the county The Oxford Times (27-Sep-2011)
Wedding fraudster hasn't been deported By Euan Stretch AN illegal immigrant jailed for a bogus weddings scam is living openly in the UK despite a judge ordering hi Mirror.co.uk (27-Sep-2011)
Hodge: Stop immigration 'numbers game' Labour MP Margaret Hodge has accused her party and the Conservatives of playing a "numbers game" in trying to convince PoliticsHome (27-Sep-2011)
Asylum seekers from Arab spring pour into Europe Refugees from war and revolution in the Arab world have begun to pour into Europe, according to research. A count c Mail Online (27-Sep-2011)
Asylum seekers from Arab spring pour into Europe ) Refugees from war and revolution in the Arab world have begun to pour into Europe, according to research. A cou The Mail On Sunday (27-Sep-2011)
Immigration 'mistakes' admitted Helen Warrell writes Helen Warrell. Senior Labour figures have admitted that they allowed immigration from eas Financial Times Print Edition (UK) (27-Sep-2011)
THE BATTLE OF ALDERSHOT NOT far from Aldershot railway station a 73-year-old ex-Gurkha in a traditional Yorkshire flat cap is teaching me Nepalese. Express.co.uk (27-Sep-2011)
Red, purple or blue? Which kind of Labour are you? Ed Miliband is being urged by a key adviser to halve the number of universities in Britain and replace the rest The Independent (27-Sep-2011)
Terrorists will use Human rights Act to dodge deportation ) A trio of foreign terrorists convicted of plotting mayhem in Britain are poised to use human rights la The Mail On Sunday (27-Sep-2011)
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