This week, the Labour party released its manifesto and, as expected, there was much of what we have been hearing for some time about illegal Channel crossings – “go after the criminal gangs”, “create a new Border Security Command” and “smash the gangs”. The party will also “fast-track removals to safe countries people who do not have the right to stay here… and negotiate additional returns arrangements to speed up returns and increase the number of safe countries that failed asylum seekers can swiftly be sent back to”.
Really? Are these safe countries that we already have agreements with or are the agreements yet to be negotiated? Labour is of course also going to dismantle the Rwanda plan. Having come this far with it and after millions of taxpayers’ money on the scheme, one would have thought it at least worth a try to see if it works. Surely, the taxpayer is owed that at least.
So much of what Labour is proposing is either already being done or will have the effect of drawing in more migrants – like swifter clearance, which will amount to asylum or leave to remain on the nod for those from areas of the world they can’t be sent back to. And asylum in all but name for those in the queue, now around 35,000.
As for legal immigration – the much bigger problem (we heard just three weeks ago that the provisional figure for the whole of 2023 was a colossal (net) 685,000) – there was little of substance on how it would be reduced, beyond “reforming the points-based immigration system so that it is fair and properly managed, with appropriate restrictions on visas, and by linking immigration and skills policy”. Labour will also not “tolerate employers or recruitment agencies abusing the visa system” or “stand for breaches of employment law”.
I do not believe that any of this will have much impact on the present scale of immigration. Moreover, any limited impact will be slow in coming. I do not see net migration falling below half a million during the next Parliament. While net migration of 600,000 will be adding the equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham every two years.
One thing that struck me about what was in Labour’s manifesto was its similarity to what was in the 2019 Tory manifesto:
Only by establishing immigration controls and ending freedom of movement will we be able to attract the high-skilled workers we need to contribute to our economy, our communities and our public services. There will be fewer lower-skilled migrants and overall numbers will come down.
Look where that got us.
The Conservatives, who appear to have accepted that they are in for a drubbing on July 4th, published their manifesto two days earlier. It included the commitment to “stop the boats” by persevering with their Rwanda plan and to reduce legal migration by introducing a cap, something my colleagues and I at Migration Watch have been calling for, for at least four years. As Mike Jones, our Executive Director said on first reading the manifesto, “Too little, too late”. Here’s our press release and comment.
Forgive me if I gloss over the LibDems on immigration – little point. Same with the SNP, Greens or Plaid Cymru. But what about Reform, who, it seems, has overtaken the Tories in the polls? It is, after all, now claiming it will be the real opposition to the next Government. Be that as it may, what one can say is that it does appear to be alone in capturing the mood of the majority on the issue of immigration and how to reduce it.
Reform proposes to cut immigration by applying a cap that will be equal to the number of people leaving the country. As already mentioned, we believe a cap is essential for immigration to be reduced. What we are not sure about is how “one in one out”, as Reform is suggesting, would work in practice. However, what we do go along with is that without a cap there is little chance of reducing net migration (which determines population growth) to the sort of levels that will lead to our population settling at manageable levels.
We have another three weeks of debates, claims and counterclaims. Will we hear anything convincing or workable from Labour or the Tories on how the current catastrophic levels of immigration will be reduced? I doubt it.
Alp Mehmet is the Chairman of Migration Watch U.K. Find Migration Watch and Alp on X.
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NIGEL FARAGE – EPIC SPEECH – ORATORY AT ITS FINEST – FRINTON TENNIS CLUB 15 June 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7T_H7HBOfc
Passion and commitment with no teleprompter and no notes A superb presenter with his skill honed over many years. Head and shoulders above the opposition. Power to his elbow.
Yes, its about immigration, but it’s also about the Net Zero and climate change scam,s digital IDs, the march of the technocratic state in the name of “biosecurity”, and neocon maniacal war on every front, none of which we have asked for, far less been allowed to vote on. And all are facets of the drive to Global governance.
No one i know wants any of these things but red, orange, blue and green will give you them all. Even the so called conservative end of the Tory party – Kemi Badenoch – with whom I rowed about them in private, defends them
They’ve all been bought by the globalists. They’ve all got to go.
No surprise if I declare my wholesale agreement.
For Europe and the UK it is all over as regards being Sovereign Nations. The Political Class have sold us out. If we complain we are racists and bigots. We are not a Nation anymore, we are simply a Region and are governed by the Technocrats. The UN/WEF is the global governance that the forked tongued parasites we have for politicians’ pander to. They long ago stopped serving us.
We were an Empire led by an Emperor. Then a Kingdom led by a King. Now a Country led by a Fishy.
That’s Progress For you.
The article gives the impression there is a wave of constant immigration against which one can do very little.
In the olden days, powerful people built castles to protect their property from invaders, often surrounding the castle with a moat to further discourage attacks. Well, as I have written before, the British Isles are surrounded by water so why is there a problem limiting illegal access?
The government has only to announce strict rules for immigration and enforce them. Whereas illegal immigrants may dispose of their IDs to avoid revealing their country of origin, they presumably never throw their mobile phones away, so knowledge of any strict government actions will quickly be disseminated among those attempting to access the country. In particular, rubber dinghies should simply be towed back to France, against which France has little right to complain.
On a more positive note, UK could assist poorer African countries to improve their standard of living (and thus reduce the desire to emigrate) by financing or actually building coal, gas or nuclear power stations, according to the availability of local resources – and assuming we have any experts still able to actually do such things – as opposed to telling those countries they may only build ‘sustainable’ wind or solar farms for power generation (which Boris Johnson did when he was Prime Minister).
The purpose would be to provide 24/7 electricity to even the poorest areas because it is the often total absence of electricity that limits those countries from creating jobs and becoming modern societies. It would be an opportunity for UK to create and export knowledge and jobs, to improve the lot of other countries, as well as our own.
Completely agree and the case for electricity in the poorer nations is one I have made countless times.
Michael Schellenberger – Apocalypse Never.
“The British Isles are surrounded by water so why is there a problem limiting illegal access” —–because we are signed up to International Agreements on asylum and immigration and our hands are tied behind our back.
Yes we could help improve the lot of people in poor countries by encouraging the use of coal to build prosperity, but ofcourse the opposite happens, and they are coerced into not using coal and gas because of absurd climate policies that trump any kind of common sense, and those policies are really saying to poor people in the developing world where over one billion still do not have electricity that they won’t have it anytime soon, and we make it sound as if we are doing them a favour by fobbing them off with some money for wind turbines.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. International agreements can be modified or revoked, and tied hands can be untied … if there’s a will (which I doubt).
You are right to “doubt”. Anyone who dares to doubt though is classed as a climate denier and a racist, when infact the opposite is true. It is all the climate deniers that want to see poor people prosper by using coal, just as the Chinese do. They eco fundamentalists would stop the Chinese using coal if they could as well, but luckily the Chinese are big and strong enough to tell them to F..k Off
Wonder if this is one of the ‘usual suspects’, as it’s their M.O, but you know how the media likes to cover such details up, if at all possible. I’m sure Germany will be getting more and more of this due to them hosting the Euros, and what with how much ‘cultural enrichment’ they’ve allowed in;
”Armed police have descended on streets outside a Euro 2024 fan zone in Germany after an axe-wielding man began threatening football supporters ahead of a Netherlands vs Poland game.
Officers swarmed to the scene, and have reportedly shot the would-be attacker – leaving him “severely injured”.
The attacker, wielding a pickaxe and an incendiary device, also threatened officers as they policed fans on the Reeperbahn, a major road in Hamburg’s St Pauli district.
Officers had begun to use pepper spray against the axeman before opting to use their weapons, German outlet Bild reported.
And police said that one officer initially fired a warning shot to stop the attacker – before several more rounds were let off until the man finally fell to the ground.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/euro-2024-hamburg-germany-netherlands-gunshots-football-fans
And what will be done about the immigrants already here on welfare, at odds with British cultural and social norms, the violence, vandalism of our monuments and institutions, the anti-semitism and attacks on Jews, the assaults on children and women – or am I an -ist with a -phobia?
Deport. Immediately.
Remember the Whaling Moratorium, a temporary ban on whaling to allow whales to recover from near extinction, still in place today?
— Let’s have an Immigration Moratorium for Five Years, extendable as needed, to allow the White Population to recover from near extinction. No excuses. No exceptions. No legal appeals.
— Renounce Teresa May’s illegal signature on the Global Migration Pact, and renounce all UK connection to the ECHR and UN asylum “rules”.
— A total ban on welfare benefits or jobs for illegal aliens already in the country, and immediate deportation to the Third World country of their choice. No excuses. No exceptions. No legal appeals. The UK Armed Forces will be given full control over deportations.
— Heavy fines on any company employing Third World Ethnics instead of Brits, and cut off all welfare benefits to unemployed Brits who refuse job offers.
— That’ll do for a start. Let’s go full-on Renegade.
One issue about migration that never gets aired is about what is happening in Europe right now. Since at least the past 9-10 years the EU has been pushing hard on the migrant issue demanding that all EU countries must follow the requirements set out by the EU which can be summed up as “Let them in. Share them out.”
They really got going with this in 2015 and for several years after that they repeatedly said that these migrants were needed because of the falling birth rate in all EU countries. It didn’t matter who they were, where they came from, what background they had, what agenda they might be bringing with them. Nothing mattered at all … just “Let them in. Share them out.”
So the migrants keep ariving week after week, month after month, year after year causing untold damage to civil society but the EU insists that its requirements must be obeyed.
What most importantly needs to be highlighted right now as loudly and as often as possible, is that the EU recently forced through its Pact for Migration which again says that migrants will keep comming and they will be distributed to ALL EU countries and if any country refuses its quota – the EU will demand something they call a ‘Solidarity Payment’.
What picture does that madness conjure up as to the future of European countries? Willl those countries that have already taken in huge numbers of migrants and are seeing the disintegration that it is causing be allowed to say ‘No More’ or are countries just going to roll over and die? Will countries such as France or Germany have to be be partitioned in the future because groups of migrants demand the right to govern themselves?
This is an unprecedented situation in Europe – nothing like this has ever happened before. The Uniparties are too blind by their ‘business as usual’ notions – appealing to the center ground of British politics. The Con party acts according to its fundamental principle now – being the ‘Nice Party’. But the EU will not budge on its demands. The destruction of Europe MUST CONTINUE. Reform Party and Migration Watch must urgently highlight this problem. Every day.
For the most part I am in complete agreement although not sure about your final para. The Uniparty is playing out a pantomime for the sake of the dozy British people but the reality is that once parliament is up and running after the fake election whoever has the keys will be instructed to get back on script. Sharpish.
Meanwhile in France, a Leftist immigrant born in Morocco says…
‘Native French’ Pose ‘Serious Problem’ for Society, Says Leftist Mélenchon (breitbart.com)
“… Those who call themselves native French pose a serious problem to the cohesion of society…”
“The leftist leader went on to call for the “Re-foundation of France”…
This is similar to Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke from Nigeria who said she was “Proud to be part of the Project that is Great Britain”,
(otherwise known as “The Great Replacement”.)
She is now known as Kemi Badenoch.
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