When the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published its latest figures on employment 10 days ago, it was attacked by Labour for being "unhelpful". The problem was actually that the ONS was being truthful. Their figures revealed that while employment for British workers has fallen by 250,000 over the past 12 months, the number of foreign workers employed here has increased by 200,000. So much for Gordon Brown's famous promise of "British jobs for British workers."
Labour's immigration policy has been predicated on the idea that Britain needed a larger workforce. With an ageing population, Britain, it was said, needed an influx of young immigrants to provide the services and the pensions for the increasing number of old and economically inactive Britons. The fallacy in that argument was exposed almost from the moment it was made: immigrants get old just like everyone else, which means that immigration can at most delay our facing up to the problem of an ageing labour force. It cannot provide a solution.
Labour then said that British workers were too expensive to fill the country's employment requirements, and immigrants were needed to fill the gap. Insisting on the need to reduce the wages of public sector and other workers by introducing immigrants who would accept lower pay and worse conditions was a new departure for a party which used to pride itself on promoting the interests of disadvantaged Britons. But Labour went ahead with the policy anyway.
Even in times of economic growth, that policy damaged the prospects of people whose only employment options were low-skilled, badly paid jobs – however much it might have benefited those who employ nannies or cleaners. Now that the economy is contracting, the impact of large-scale immigration on the poorest and least-qualified Britons is extremely serious and getting worse. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has responded by promising to institute new immigration rules for those coming to work in Britain from outside the EU. As we report today, Ms Smith insists that from April, such workers will only be allowed into Britain if they have a masters degree and can prove they already have a job in their own country which pays £20,000 or more. The Home Secretary also says she is considering banning migrants' families from coming to Britain, although how she could do so is unclear: the right to family reunion is one of the most fundamental in Labour's Human Rights Act, and any legislation which abrogated it would be struck down by the courts.
Moreover, unless Labour finds a way to maintain existing restrictions on the immigration into Britain of workers from the east European countries that recently joined the EU, we can expect a large-scale influx of Romanian and Bulgarian workers in search of employment, for their economies are in an even worse state than ours.
Labour is belatedly waking up to the degree of resentment that its policy of encouraging large-scale immigration has generated. There are ominous signs that the chief beneficiary of that resentment will be the odious and racist British National Party. It won a seat last week in a council by-election in Sevenoaks, Kent, in a ward that Labour had long regarded as its own.
The long-term social consequences of unfettered immigration have not been considered by Labour. But those consequences will be profound. If immigration continues at its present rate, Britain's population is projected to increase by 18 million over the next 30 years. The impact on public services, on the environment and on our society as a whole will be enormous. And yet Labour has no plans to place a cap on the number of immigrants allowed into Britain. No wonder the British electorate, which was never consulted about the matter, is deeply unhappy.
To Paka and Satantra,
The old excuse that the immigrant work force do the jobs that the British Workforce do not want to is a bit of a white-wash.
The reality is that most native British cannot afford to do some of the low paid jobs, this is further compounded by the fact that in reality the race discrimination is against the native population. (See my previous entry). The immigrant population do very nicely thank-you and I am fed up with hearing the violin stories from those who are so "down-trodden".
England particularly is seen as a push over for finding work since an immigrant only has to cite the Race Discrimination Act and every employer goes running. We are getting to the stage that America reached some years ago, where employers are passing money to "proffessional" candidate/employees in order that the statistics which the Government want to see are met.
The discrimination now is against the British worker, not the other way around, and if those immigrants who dislike it, can, as many Polish are doing now, return back from whence they came.
Perphaps some politicians would like to spend an evening or two going around town and medium size cities (not London) Public Houses and Bars. There are a lot of native English Workers from White-collar to general municipal, who are getting fed up with being discriminated against by their own Country.
Be warned Mr Brown, there are a lot of VERY unhappy bunnies out there! And they are people who are unemployed and who WANT to work.
Absolutely agree with kenherts at 12:56pm
Britain has become a dustbin for breeding parasites and all the "do gooders" have done is help to nurture an uncontrollable monster which is growing ever stronger
and look what a miserable failure the notion of a multi-cultural "utopia" and secularism has become
law and order has completely broke down
happy now you trendy liberal leftie "politically correct" bunch of twits?
having read all this comment, I'm clued on where the public vote lies. Truth is the government knows this too but they are at sea on dealing with the problem.
They thinking enacting policies to change current immigration status might label them as ?? but seems it is what every other british wants in there mind. A britain for british people alone.
This is just the beginning of this episode. I watch to see how this unfolds especially with the long term recession and job losses around.
When will the British people wake up to what is really going on? All 3 main Parties have signed up to the New World Order. Proof, GB said in a recent speech"we are experiencing the growing pangs of a New Global World Order"
To achieve this the Politicians must have Global Problems that only Global Gov't can fix. First 9/11 and now the Banking crisis has been engineered to achieve this and all solutions on offer are Global solutions. In the UK we have the highest living costs in the EU, so mass imigration will sort out this problem by reducing wages. GB will continue to destroy the UK economy bt Printing money (Devaluation of currency)you would think a 30% drop was enough already! so even though the EU Banks are in a far worse state than ours,the �/E have not reached parity, so GB will continue destroying our Currency so eventually he can tell us that the � is no longer any good and we will have to join the Euro, as it will be the only way out of the recession. What really disturbs me is the UK population has been dumbed down so much they will fall for it. We will be a poor region of the EU by the time of the next election. Tony & Gord will then leave Downing ST and will have accomplished the biggest robbery in history, the sell off, of our once great nation.
When will the British people wake up to what is really going on? All 3 main Parties have signed up to the New World Order. Proof, GB said in a recent speech"we are experiencing the growing pangs of a New Global World Order"
To achieve this the Politicians must have Global Problems that only Global Gov't can fix. First 9/11 and now the Banking crisis has been engineered to achieve this and all solutions on offer are Global solutions. In the UK we have the highest living costs in the EU, so mass imigration will sort out this problem by reducing wages. GB will continue to destroy the UK economy bt Printing money (Devaluation of currency)you would think a 30% drop was enough already! so even though the EU Banks are in a far worse state than ours,the �/E have not reached parity, so GB will continue destroying our Currency so eventually he can tell us that the � is no longer any good and we will have to join the Euro, as it will be the only way out of the recession. What really disturbs me is the UK population has been dumbed down so much they will fall for it. We will be a poor region of the EU by the time of the next election. Tony & Gord will then leave Downing ST and will have accomplished the biggest robbery in history, the sell off, of our once great nation.
In comparing degree of racism one can find little to distinguish the BNP from the other nationalist parties (such as the Labour, Liberal and Conservtives, who are all managed from the same Scottish bunker). The big argument against voting for the BNP was that its nationalism would trash the economy, but now that argument is redundant; making it as least as appealing as any other party in the electorate's eyes.
What we need is a pacifist Little England type of nationalism, not expansionist, excessively rude to foreigners, or dabbling in Middle East politics, but one that looks after its own people. We, more than any other ethnic group in England, are the victims of discrimination, and we need to recognize that. We need to free ourselves from foreign bondage.
In this new order there is no room for globalism or even of Great Britain. Britain owes the world a lot of money, England owes nothing. Dissolve Britian, dissolve our debts.
All Labour goverments from the end of the second world war to the present day have betrayed this country with open door imigration.And the worst thing is they do not learn.We are told if they are EU citizens they are allowed in but we are one of the few counties that chose this, other major countries gave themselves upto five years to absorb the tidal wave.
When will the British people wake up to what is really going on? All 3 main Parties have signed up to the New World Order. Proof, GB said in a recent speech"we are experiencing the growing pangs of a New Global World Order"
To achieve this the Politicians must have Global Problems that only Global Gov't can fix. First 9/11 and now the Banking crisis has been engineered to achieve this and all solutions on offer are Global solutions. In the UK we have the highest living costs in the EU, so mass imigration will sort out this problem by reducing wages. GB will continue to destroy the UK economy bt Printing money (Devaluation of currency)you would think a 30% drop was enough already! so even though the EU Banks are in a far worse state than ours,the �/E have not reached parity, so GB will continue destroying our Currency so eventually he can tell us that the � is no longer any good and we will have to join the Euro, as it will be the only way out of the recession. What really disturbs me is the UK population has been dumbed down so much they will fall for it. We will be a poor region of the EU by the time of the next election. Tony & Gord will then leave Downing ST and will have accomplished the biggest robbery in history, the sell off, of our once great nation.
I don't understand why no one sees the real problem! If you justify immigration on the basis that the indigenous population won't do the jobs then you have two probles:
1. It only solves the jobs shortage for one generation - the sons and daughters of the immigrants will either have the same expectations as everyone else or hate us (and there will be more of them).
2. You still haven't solved the intial issue of Training. Yes training - we need to insist people with skills not up to the mark get trained and match the training to the jobs shortage.
Anyone with skills who has been made redundant lately will tell you that job centres can't do this right now!
Low paid = minimum wage
Until everyone is on minimum wage you are going to be 2nd in line to immigrants and those coming off job seekers allowances.Accept the low pay or be without a job.Your choice.
Labour: the most racist political party in Western Europe. They are the fascists, not the BNP.
The BNP and the indigenous people of this land are just trying to survive.
There is only one organisation in the whole of the UK that supports the indigenous population and the Telegraph calls them racist!. Perhaps it could be you whose racist for not saying the same about the hundreds of thousands of organisations for "ethnic minorities"
Shades of the Weimar Republic with inflation and political chaos. I would not be quite so patronising about the BNP; they do seem to be the only party which recognises the problems.
Get down on the street and talk to the working man.
You will be told that our country has been changed by vast immigration without ANY reference to our native population.
This is not something that Labour has done. It goes all the way back to the 50's and neither political party ever addressed the problem.
Now we have to accept that things have changed and try to assimilate all these people (often against their will !).
We need a substantial examination of those on unemployment benefit. Everyone knows people who work for cash whilst drawing unemployment benefit and people who claim sick benefit whilst able to work.
Labour is unwilling to grasp the nettle but the fact is the ordinary working man cannot understand their reluctance to act against the shirkers and benefit frauds.
Labour in turn appears unable to realise that these same working classes will turn to the BNP.
The BNP support will not come from disillusioned Conservatives !
Let's see:
1) Labour didn't consult the electorate about its policy of unfettered immigration; stifled discussion by branding anyone raising the subject as racist - and the result is people are turning to the BNP. Quite a logical result I would have thought.
2) Labour reneged on a Manifesto Committment to hold a Referendum on the Lisbon ConTreaty - and broke it. Result: the electorate is becoming even more Eurosceptic and will probably vote for UKIP and the BNP in the EuroElections in June.
Labour: reaping what it has sown. I don't support the BNP but if I were in a Labour-voting constituency and the only way to get rid of them was to vote BNP, that's what I'd do. Anything to destroy Labour, who have destroyed MY country.
My nephew departed for Australia 12 years ago and has recently been granted permanent residence. After 12 years, during which he had to leave Australia from time to time to comply with his visa requirements. Ms Smith should have further chats with the Australian immigration service to learn exactly how they do it so much better.
Future, what future?
They could resolve it, but there is need for backbone and integrity. Now where would they find that? What sort of political establishment ignores the rights of its indigenouous population in favour of uncontrolled immigration?
The 1968 'rivers of blood' speech has now come to a reality. How very true those words were. Britain is now facing a crisis with such a massive influx of immigrants. This little Island of ours just can�t cope with anymore arriving, and something has to be done. The only solution is to either kick this government out, or simply get out of the EU.
'There are ominous signs that the chief beneficiary of that resentment will be the odious and racist British National Party.'
I have been told that the NUJ insists that any reference to the BNP must ALWAYS be accompanied by descriptive adjectives like 'odious', 'deplorable', 'vile', 'wicked' and 'racist'. I believe your readers are mature enough to make their own judgments on the character of the BNP and it is sad to see the Sunday Telegraph bowing to the PC dictates of the NUJ.
I am not expecting to see this get past your moderators.
What about us Brits working in mainland Europe? After all, we outnumber other EU nationals working in the UK. One would have thought that Brown's attempt to reduce sterling to parity with Argentinian peso would have done for the immigration problem in Britain.
".....odious and racist British National Party...." I know the NUJ demand their Journalists revile the BNP each time they have to mention the party - but isn't this a little ridiculous? The BNP is a party whose policies would not be at all out of place in mainstream politics 30 or 40 years ago. Today we have three Loony parties who have apparently have hijacked those old mainstream party names - what a hoot! But that means we need a BNP today more than ever. They may not have my membership - I value my independence these days - but I'm quite sure they will get my vote.
80 Million plus in the UK 22/10/2007.
BNET.Independent. Farming today Radio 4 2008.
Whatever the Government admit to those are complete lies.
Blogs provide the links to these facts.
From the UK to Australia the same excuse is used.
They come to do jobs the indigenous won't do.
The Worlds too small a place for politicians to ply their lies.
Government should be taken to traitors gate and hung!!
Jacqui Smith is thinking about new laws to limit immigration is she. Well I can tell her that its too late. The electorate has been up in arms over this issue for at least 10-years. Labour have wrecked our society, our economy and our culture. Too little Jacqui and much too late. You are the weakest link, goodbye!
Without foreign workers the NHS would collapse; without foreign workers Social Services would collapse; without foreign workers Agriculture has collapsed. One has to ask, why have theBosses, the Trade Unions and British workers allowed this to happen? Is it because of no upskilling and a competitive labour supply stream. Protectionism is the last refuge of the little Englander and we cannot allow that to happen.
The issue of immigration as we witness to day is exactly what Enoch Powell predicted back in the 1960's.
The well meaning Race Relations and Discrimination Acts are well meant, but have only resulted in my being a foreiner in my own Country. So paranoid are employers about engaging someone who is not an immigrant that they are now making a "ratio check" to ensure that Government guide lines upon immigration are being "complied" with.
The term "Comply" is very apt in to-days context with CCTV and monitoring systems in virtually every aspect of our life. IF we FAIL to COMPLY then the full might of Big Brother will fall upon me with crushing blows.
Net result?
Well as we have seen all the large employers are taking their work off-shore and leaving the UK altogether.
It is perhaps ironic that if Gordon is not careful he may find that native Britons will become Ex-Pats and then other countries around the world will be complaining about British Immigrants. Of equal note that it is the skilled and qualified. at whichever end of the social scale, monied or not, who are leaving the UK.
Then again Labour prefer dealing with ill-educated people, they are easier to brain wash.
Sammie Hall: 2.47pm:
"Do our politicans understand the mathematical certainty and irreversiblity of indigenous replacement via higher immigrant birth rates?"
Yes they do. Thats why they do it. Labour beleives that the Brits have a capitalist, independent, free market mindset and that Labour information control and mass immigration will swamp it and because immigrants are more likely to vote Labour and have no history of 'Brit-think' the Conservatives will never get into power again, at least, not a free market oriented Conservatives. Labour also have a socialist inspired idea that all peoples and colours should mix together producing an amorphous, world community that can be led by a socialist world government someday.
People are now listening to the BNP and reading their policies
They are not racist , they just believe the people of Britain should come first in our own country
This Lib/Lab/Con parliament are treating us like second class citizens in our own country
The British National Party are the only ones speaking up and defending the British people
Would-be immigrants needn't worry about Jacqui Smith's comments. She doesn't mean it and even if she did, is not in a position to implement such a draconian reversal of Labour's 'open door' policy.
As for the BNP winning a seat in 'Sevenoaks': this is disingenious to say the least. The said seat was actually in Swanley, which though within the Sevenoaks District Council area is a good few miles from Sevenoaks itself, the latter being a Tory stronghold and very unlikely to vere towards the BNP.
The sad truth for Labour is not that true-blue seats like Sevenoaks are drifting futher to the right and embracing the BNP. Rather it is it's own, core vote in Working Class towns like Swanley that are attracted that way.
This movement, even without the Tory 20% lead in the polls, will see Labour destroyed at the next election. Such is the price of treachery.
As a BNP officer i've been campaigning for years and I lost the count of the number of people I met who were really upset because they lost their jobs to cheaper foreigners.
This backlash against foreign workers may surprise the political elite and many in the mainstream media,but it didn't surprise us at all.
Had labour politicians spent less time attacking us and more time talking and listening to their supporters,probably we won't be now discussing about the anger of the working class
Telegraph wrote...'population is projected to increase by 18 million'..
The most outrageous fact
is that current immigration ASSURES that the indigenious British will, in the near future, be the minority in their own country.
Whom among us has agreed to that?
Do our politicans understand the mathematical certainty and irreversiblity of indigenous replacement via higher immigrant birth rates?
To retain Britain,
even if we DO need
some extra labour, we could easily break the nexus
between immigration and 'permenant leave to remain'.
A policy that allows
a circular flow of immigrants,
with NO leave to remain,
would fix multiple problems.
Permits that are
limited to a fixed number of years
would allow the immigrant
to work, stockpile money,
then go home,
to be replaced by others.
You number the permits,
not the immigrants,
and assign a permit
to a specific immigrant.
This solves
any labour shortage
and prevents the future problem of having to fund
the retirement of
millions of low paid immigrant workers,
and prevents the problem
of families in tow
that exacerbate the drain
on public services--especially the schools who must teach the immigrant in their own language while they learn English.
With a circular immigration policy with no leave to remain, all the extra expense and cultural strife would be eliminated, and the procedure to deport any immigrant who committed crime would be minimised.
Telegraph wrote...'population is projected to increase by 18 million'..
The most outrageous fact
is that current immigration ASSURES that the indigenious British will, in the near future, be the minority in their own country.
Whom among us has agreed to that?
Do our politicans understand the mathematical certainty and irreversiblity of indigenous replacement via higher immigrant birth rates?
To retain Britain,
even if we DO need
some extra labour, we could easily break the nexus
between immigration and 'permenant leave to remain'.
A policy that allows
a circular flow of immigrants,
with NO leave to remain,
would fix multiple problems.
Permits that are
limited to a fixed number of years
would allow the immigrant
to work, stockpile money,
then go home,
to be replaced by others.
You number the permits,
not the immigrants,
and assign a permit
to a specific immigrant.
This solves
any labour shortage
and prevents the future problem of having to fund
the retirement of
millions of low paid immigrant workers,
and prevents the problem
of families in tow
that exacerbate the drain
on public services--especially the schools who must teach the immigrant in their own language while they learn English.
With a circular immigration policy with no leave to remain, all the extra expense and cultural strife would be eliminated, and the procedure to deport any immigrant who committed crime would be minimised.
"the odious and racist British National Party." Oh, for Heaven's sake, don't you realise how boringly repetitive such compulsory abuse is, as it's parroted by the entire media under a diktat from the NUJ, for want of any ability to actually fault BNP policy ?
What's "odious" is the fact that all the main parties subscribe to the same policies designed to ensure not just the end of this country as an independent political entity, but to destroy our nation both racially & culturally well before the end of this century.
Isn't that "racist", to work for and gloat over the demise of a people ?
Labor has imported mini-Pakistans and mini-Bangladesh into Britain along with their problems and baggages.
A high percentage of people from these failed and rouge nations tend to become a drain on welfare system, law and order and security threats. They don't have much education either!
Due to their inability to adjust to local cultures, values and traditions, they tend to be alienated from the mainstream in all respects!
Regards,
What I find particularly distasteful is the fact that some of our troops are being killed or crippled by explosive devices in Afghanistan constructed, in part, from materials sent or carried out by British Muslims.
Last time I looked that was treason, carrying a fairly clear punishment. It is being brushed under the table.
Oh come on Telegraph since when have Labour really put any effort into curbing it.
Remember when the traiter Blair won the last election and he was standing outside number 10 saying he would do something? Yes well he went on to break records by flooding this country with more immigrants than ever before!
The right to family reunion being fundamental in Labour's Human Rights Act is no problem at all. These families can reunite in their own countries.
As to odious and racist political parties, Labour (with no opposition from the Tories) for more than half a century has: pursued a policy of ethnic replacement, with the eventual result that the indigenous people will likely become extinct in their homeland; compelled the indigenous people to pay for benefits designed exclusively for the settlers ie from which the indigenous people are excluded, in the form of discriminatory education, training, recruitment, housing, policing etc etc; and accused the indigenous people of being �racist� when they voiced any objection to this exploitation. I think that�s quite enough racism from the Labour Party, don�t you?
Can you really be serious that labour are just waking up!. This was a problem decades ago and has got much worse under labour. We as a country have a huge benefit culture that is growing by the hour as more ferrel brats are born to low life that have never done a day's work.
One stupid girl said she could not be working class because she does not go to work.
Immigration is resented by millions and has cost this country untold billions making our present problems look like small change.
We are the dustbin of the world!.
Many of our council estates are infested with scrounging low life who pay nothing into society but cost us untold millions to keep.
The BNP manifesto
to preserve British culture
is replicated in the
United Nations
'Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples'.
The BNP manifesto
to deport
illegal immigrants and immigrants who commit crimes
is exactly the same as the USA deportation law.
If these policies mean that
the BNP is racist,
then they also mean that
the United Nations
and the USA are racist.
Instead of encouraging uncontrolled iilegal immigration to fill the vacancies,they could have removed the mattresses from the backs of a thousands scroungers?
The real scandal which cannot be separated from all the false excuses justifying utterly unchecked immigration is that of Labour utterly failing to make a dent in the mountain of professional benefits claimants who have never done a stroke of work in years if ever - and in continuing to reward socially undesirable parasitic behaviours - like whole council estates of unsupported women having children by invisible men by their late teens - a swiftly repeating, expanding pattern creating a client state rump.
If we 'need' workers to come into Britain to take on unskilled low paid jobs - why can't millions on benefits do the same jobs - because, I think you'll find, they have (a) set themselves out to be unemployables not the unemployed, and (b) because the benefits in aggregate are more than they would get for working. Madness.
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