The United Kingdom is subjected to the highest amount of permanent immigration in Europe, and the second highest of any country in the world, only surpassed by the United States, according to new figures.
There has been a flurry of new reports concerning the alleged impact of migrant labour on the employment prospects of British workers. These reports all tell different stories.
Another week, another survey that shows the majority of Britons agreeing with a major British National Party policy. The latest ‘revelation’ is that up to three-quarters of Britons want to see immigration slashed.
Here’s a thought to warm your heart. Although tens of thousands of impoverished British pensioners will die from the cold in the coming months, so-called asylum seekers will get hundreds of pounds each in benefit payments for gas and electricity, amounting to more than double the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance.
The ‘anti-immigration’ Tory party have presided over yet another rise in immigration. ONS figures show that net migration to the UK in 2010 was 252,000, the biggest calendar year figure on record. It is a shocking 27 percent higher than the level in 2009 and 7,000 higher than the previous record in 2004.
The town of Boston in Lincolnshire has had to beg the Coalition Government for more money to support the flood of immigrants the town and surrounding area has to put up with. The immigrants, who are pouring in daily to Britain, are flooding the housing lists, the NHS, education systems, benefits systems, and taking British jobs from British workers.
The UK’s ‘border agency’ has lost 124,000 asylum seekers and migrants in the last year, it has been revealed. UKBA figures showed the number of individuals lost by the agency had almost tripled in six months from 40,500 in March to 124,000 in September.
The total number of people seeking asylum in industrialized countries rose by 17 percent in the first six months of 2011, with ‘Benefits Britain’ being the fifth most popular destination.
The Conservative Party made great play in the last General Election about how it was going to deal with two inter-connected public concerns: the flow of cheap labour into the UK and the net increase in immigration. But it now transpires that under the Coalition over half of new jobs went to migrant workers!
Britain’s asylum system has cost the country £10 billion since 1999 – and has allowed 266,000 illegal immigrants to remain here indefinitely.