To great fanfare, Tory “Immigration Minister” Damian Green last week introduced a “points-based immigration” system to bring immigration down to “tens of thousands” per year—but this is exactly the same policy as introduced by the previous Labour Party regime.
According to the appropriately-named Mr Green, there will be a “greater selectivity to the process,” whatever that might mean.
“This new system will introduce a points based system that will ensure that migrants will add to the quality of life in the U.K., as well as gain a greater quality of life for themselves,” Mr Green continued.
He added that there had been an “11 per cent fall in student visas and a 17 per cent fall in work visas in the latest quarterly figures compared with a year previously.”
This might sound impressive at first glance, but when the figures are studied, the claims are put in perspective: in the 2010—2011 year, for example, some 362,000 “student visas” were issued to non-EU nationals to enter Britain, and even if this number were cut by 10 percent, it would still amount to a flood of nearly one-third of a million every year.
More than half of this total were admitted under the points-based system. When their families are included, the number tops 500,000.
In any event, as the Labour Party has been quick to point out, the points-based-system was introduced by that party, and has proven completely ineffectual in halting the immigration invasion of Britain.
Just how Mr Green thinks that “greater selectivity” is going to halt the Third World invasion remains a mystery—unless, of course, the simple answer is that he and his fellow Tories do not wish to halt it at all.
The latter option seems all the more likely, given that the Tories now have a Muslim party chairman.
The Tories have also fully embraced the policy of multi-culturalism which can only result in the complete destruction of Britain’s founding ethnic identity, and as such nothing they say on the topic can be taken with any degree of seriousness.
It is thus surprising to see MigrationWatch UK’s Sir Andrew Green give “cautious backing” to his namesake’s new announcement.
When the Labour Party introduced the original Points-Based-System, Sir Andrew attacked it in public after a House of Commons library research paper revealed that the system had given more than 1.1 million jobs to immigrants who could have been refused work permits.
“So much for the ‘tough’ points-based system,” Sir Andrew was quoted as saying.
And so much for the Tory version thereof, as well.
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You should print these posters and then we could display them.They are not racist and to the point!
These vermin take the” British” people for idiots, and rightly so………………..
the “British” people keep on voting for them, and their Judas treason.
I’m thinking they deserve all the grief that is coming their way.
All measures / talks to stem immigration are bound to be welcomed by most people, however, like the author, I am extremely sceptical – not least because we are forever on this merry-go-round and deja vu nature of lullaby (in)actions and announcements. They often tend to be “go back to sleep” rhetoric – whilst we rapidly head for a total nightmare.
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All previous ministers (both Labour and Conservatives) have indicated a ‘new era’ – a ‘turn of the corner’ – measures to ‘tackle immigration’ – and all of them have ended up doing no such thing, in fact, they have increased it. Especially Labour, for reasons we all know about.
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Also, all of us here are already aware that we are “stuffed” no matter whether another soul sets foot here or not. It is only the increased pace / lessened time-span which is the factor around that of tinkering with immigration controls.
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Being a cynic, I have also long suspected that endless announcements of restricted immigration policies – which is news that will fly around the world in this communications age – only serves to ‘spike’ the flow of immigration from non-EU countries as they all try and ‘make it through’ before it gets a bit harder. Announcement after announcement throughout Labour and now, might well have had that affect. I have not followed this announcement too closely, so it may be in place with immediate effect……
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I believe they said they were going to restrict it to “tens of thousands” when they were elected. Ideally, it wants to be near zero. If the Conservatives manage to get it down to anywhere like 20,000 per year I will do much much more than eat my hat, I will show my backside in Burton’s window.
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I would rather we were hearing about the reverse – i.e ministers competing for how many immigrants they were planning on removing from England! Fat chance of that. That is an even bigger dream than what deluded Conservative supporters must be having if they think that this nation can still be salvaged through immigration rule tinkering, points based systems, etc, which are all more than likely to not even make a decent scratch.
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I will believe it when I see it.
Just you wait till we mount a significant opposition, he will play the robust do-nothing like Sarkozy with his Burka ban. The sooner Conservatives wake up to the fact that their party will do nothing to halt immigration the better for Britain it shall be. many Tories hold views not dissimilar to ours.
Half listening to the news on Radio 4 yesterday, I caught an item about ministers having meetings with “business leaders” in which the latter took the opportunity to express their concerns about various government policies including “immigration restrictions”. As I was only half listening, I’m not sure whether they were demanding more immigration or less – but I’ve got a nasty suspicion.
As for the “new” points based system, I remember Migrationwatch making the point about Labour’s scheme that by allowing anyone to enter the country if they could show that they had accumulated enough points, the government had made the wishes of the would be immigrant the deciding factor in immigration control rather than the needs of the country. Migrationwatch is right to extend only a “cautious” welcome to the new scheme.
Ah that’s a relief, for a while there I thought my children were going to end up as minorities but dave’s going to fix the problem, ah well, am gonna put me head back in the sand now I know everything is OK.
~Meanwhile Govt starts sterilizing young girls without parental consent.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2097662/Girl-13-given-contraceptive-implant-school-attempt-combat-teenager-pregnancies.html