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'Britain Doesn't Need An Immigration Cap'
1:33pm UK, Sunday January 17, 2010
Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online
Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said.
Conservative leader David Cameron has proposed limiting the net number of people who are able to live and work in Britain to the "tens of thousands" a year.
He predicted the population would rise to 70 million and put a strain on resources.
But John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain.
"Suppose the first person after the cap was an international heart specialist?" the Communities Secretary told Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.
"We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there," he said.
"We have got tight immigration control - the points-based system that is now in place means that people can only come here if what they are going to give to this country is something we need."
Mr Denham also said progress been made in the fight against racial prejudice and suggested are now more disadvantaged on the basis of their social class.
The most discriminated people in Britain may not be non-white, he said.
Nick Clegg
"Young people from white working class communities deserve extra help and extra support as anybody who has been racially disadvantaged," he added.
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, also appeared to distance himself from Mr Cameron's call for an immigration cap.
"It might work in his focus groups but it is not actually going to produce the cohesive Britain that I want to see," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr.
"What has gone wrong in the immigration debate is that we have now had decades of tough talk and administrative incompetence from both Conservative and Labour governments," he said.
In 2008, net immigration - the number of people coming to Britain above the number emigrating - was 163,000, down from 237,000 in 2007.
'Britain Doesn't Need An Immigration Cap'
1:33pm UK, Sunday January 17, 2010
Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online
Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said.
Conservative leader David Cameron has proposed limiting the net number of people who are able to live and work in Britain to the "tens of thousands" a year.
He predicted the population would rise to 70 million and put a strain on resources.
But John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain.
"Suppose the first person after the cap was an international heart specialist?" the Communities Secretary told Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.
"We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there," he said.
"We have got tight immigration control - the points-based system that is now in place means that people can only come here if what they are going to give to this country is something we need."
Mr Denham also said progress been made in the fight against racial prejudice and suggested are now more disadvantaged on the basis of their social class.
The most discriminated people in Britain may not be non-white, he said.
Nick Clegg
"Young people from white working class communities deserve extra help and extra support as anybody who has been racially disadvantaged," he added.
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, also appeared to distance himself from Mr Cameron's call for an immigration cap.
"It might work in his focus groups but it is not actually going to produce the cohesive Britain that I want to see," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr.
"What has gone wrong in the immigration debate is that we have now had decades of tough talk and administrative incompetence from both Conservative and Labour governments," he said.
In 2008, net immigration - the number of people coming to Britain above the number emigrating - was 163,000, down from 237,000 in 2007.
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As the Labour Partry seem to have lost it, would the forum experts like to tell me how they are going to house 15,000,000 extra people when the UK can't house the 55,000,000 we have now.
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go and bum armchair jockstrap wilson you phat** who gives a fook
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We probably need more immigrants to justify the money being spent on translation services.
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Who is wilson ?
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In 2008, net immigration - the number of people coming to Britain above the number emigrating - was 163,000, down from 237,000 in 2007.
is that not a good thing? |
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shoot the kunts and all the fat **ers
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As if there were'nt good enough reason to vote for them before, this has just about rubber stamped it.
The international heart specialist reason is laughable. I am a major heart patient and through experience know that there is nothing wrong the expertise in our healthcare system. Plus, for every heart specialist, there are about 500 who are barely skilled but are willing to work for peanuts. Please stop the influx now. |
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I tell you how they will house those people Charlie.
By using our taxes to destroy our countryside in order to build loads of 20 floor tower blocks to fill up with scroungers. Enjoy this country while you can imo |
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it was fun under the tory government in the 80's!
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the destruction of the manufacturing industry in Britain in the 80's
hell yea, let's bring the Tory's back, they'll improve the country!, like sh!te they will! |
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Immigrants when qualified tend to vote for the party that let them
in,there is method in new labours madness. |
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treble 18 Jan 00:42
I tell you how they will house those people Charlie. By using our taxes to destroy our countryside in order to build loads of 20 floor tower blocks to fill up with scroungers. Enjoy this country while you can imo Let all the grevilles go to Chester and places like that, even up the numbers a bit, London far too crowded. I'm surrounded by farmland here so I don't give a fack. :) |
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and the likes of Paris and New York isn't crowded? it's an internatinal problem
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I disagree. Londons already finished, so you might as well keep them there.
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However, 5 years down the line...
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immigration propped up the economy and house prices.....politicians only want to get noticed by the dumb fkers when they pretend they want immigration to be curbed.
reality is the tories are the last bunch who want immigrants to be kicked out as it feeds their buy to lets. |