Conservative Party failure on immigration as it soars by 20%
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Immigration soared by 20% last year - making a mockery of Government pledge to bring it DOWN
- Migration Watch UK: 'These figures lay bare the legacy of the Labour government'
- Number of Poles living in the UK has risen from 75,000 in 2003 to 532,000 at the end of last year
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The number of people migrating to the UK soared by more than 20 per cent last year, according to official figures released today. The rise from 198,000 in 2009 to 239,000 last year flies in the face of the Government's pledge to bring net migration down to just tens of thousands by 2015. Net migration is the difference between those arriving and leaving the country in 12-month period. 'These figures lay bare the legacy of the Labour government,' said campaign group Migration Watch UK' chairman Sir Andrew Green.
'Immigration last year was close to a quarter of a million. 'The coalition Government will have to face down some vested interests if they are to get anywhere near their target of tens of thousands.' The increase was fuelled by sharp drop in the number of people leaving the UK to live abroad.
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Gerard Batten, Ukip's home affairs spokesman, branded the Government as 'losing the plot' when it comes to the figures. 'The rise of 21% in year-on-year net immigration figures tears a gaping hole in any pretence that this Government has the faintest idea of how to deal with runaway migration,' he said. 'This gives a lie to all those silky promises made by (Prime Minister David) Cameron at the time of the General Election and the thousands of soundbites by Government ministers since then. They have lost the plot.'
He said the rise meant 'that the population of a city the size of Stoke-on-Trent has arrived in the UK in the last year alone'. 'These headline net figures also disguise an even more concerning trend, and that is the transfer of population made clear by the gross figures which show that over half a million - more than the population of Sheffield - have arrived in the last year, while 336,000 have left,' he said. 'The social impacts of this are even greater than the bald figures make clear. 'This Government is afraid of dealing with the issue and it is frightened of talking seriously about the it.'
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Shadow Home Office minister Shabana Mahmood accused the coalition of not being 'honest' with the public. 'These figures reveal the gulf between the Government's rhetoric on immigration, and the reality we see in the official figures,' she said. 'Since an immigration cap was introduced by the Government, the number of work-related visas issued has gone up. 'Net migration, the Government's measure for its pledge to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, now stands at 239,000. 'The Prime Minister said "no ifs, no buts" on immigration, but on the contrary "ifs and buts" sum up the Government's policies.' She went on: 'The Government is not being honest with the British public.
Schools which have to cater to children with different languages, people taking out of the welfare system who have never put in, the inability of us to control EU immigration because we no longer are allowed by the EU to control our own borders, a government which talks tough but is just like the last government..... what an utter mess. When I warned to Conservative Party voters that this government would be the same as the last, one policy they held up to me was this one - I rightly said that i'll believe it when I see it....... and here we are.
The Labour Party, Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats will not cut immigration, time to stop pretending. At the next election they'll all say exactly the same as before that they are going to be tough on immigration (even though they can't as members of the European Union) - is anybody going to fall for it again is the question.
Thoughts?
