Response to The Times Leader on Immigration

(Reproduced from the MigrationWatch website)

By Sir Andrew Green
Chairman of Migration Watch UK

12 May 2012

Dear Sir,

Your editorial “British Workers” (12 May) was right to point out that the flow of workers from EU states stems from treaty obligations and cannot be cut back by immigration policy. However, despite all the talk about Polish workers, it is important to understand that the EU is not where the real numbers are coming from.

For nearly ten years non EU immigration has been running at about 300,000 a year but only 100,000 have been leaving. This can and must be addressed by changes in the immigration regime. Net migration accounts for two thirds of the population growth that is placing such pressure on our public services at a time of financial stringency.

Yours sincerely,

Who’da thought it?   The Nasty Party have let their pants fall down to reveal… nothing!

No immigration policy, no controls, no borders – and not a clue.

Home Secretary Teresa ‘Kitten Heels’ May hasn’t even been to see if the UK Border Force is fit for purpose at our ports and airports. Clearly, it isn’t up to doing the job.  But why?  It’s not the fault of the hard-working staff themselves.

IT’S SIMPLY BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF THEM.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out the solution.
First, take the number of incoming travellers arriving per day (a), then work out how many passengers a Passport Control Officer can process each day (b), then divide (b) into (a).
Then you make sure you employ the right number of people to get the job done promptly and efficiently.  How difficult is that?!

Compared to the financial and social disaster of allowing thousands of terrorists, thieves, fraudsters, benefit cheats and their families into the country, the cost of hiring some extra UKBA staff is nothing.

We hear Cameron and the Tories bang on about Civil Service and state sector inefficiency, or blame everything on ‘the mess Labour left us with’, and yet they couldn’t organise a proverbial p**s-up in a brewery.  How long will it take before some Tory-led ‘committee’ decides to throw billions of taxpayer money at hiring a private contractor to do the job?  And will the owner of that contractor be a Tory donor?
Take a good guess.

People voted these idiots into power to play party politics with OUR money.  Are we nuts? Is any politician actually going to DO anything about this mess instead of making the typical empty promises?

For Pete’s sake, complain to your MP and force the government’s hand.   The LibDumbs won’t do it, because they’ll let literally EVERYONE in.

If we don’t stop this nonsense now, we’ll never be able to stop the tide of criminals, terrorists, cheats and scroungers flooding into the country we love.

It’s official, but swept under the carpet: 36% of new households will be a result of immigration so we will have to build, on average, 200 homes a day for the next 25 years just to house the extra population arising from immigration.

Even if house building were to increase by 25% over the current level to 200,000 a year, there would be a shortage of around 800,000 homes by 2033 – equivalent to the number of homes in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham combined.

Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said:

“As we saw earlier this week political correctness has dictated that the construction and planning industry should not refer to the massive impact of immigration on housing. It is not, of course, the only factor in household formation but it is a major factor accounting for 36% of new households over the next 25 years. It is also one of the few factors that the government ought to be able to control.  It is high time that we faced up to the huge impact of immigration on housing and to the severe consequences for our environment of continued mass immigration”.

Check out the report by clicking here.

Multiculturalism isn’t working because we haven’t created the right conditions for it to succeed.

I wish all ethnicities and religions peace and prosperity, but if people come to live here they must fit into our way of life, not we into theirs.   I integrate with immigrants every day: in my job, on the bus, in the supermarket, in my local area of Wandsworth or in the centre of London, and in the hospitals … and unfortunately many of the stereotypes seem to be borne out.

In my work, I see many Indian and other nationalities come here first by themselves, then bringing over their dependants (quite easy under the current visa system), then get pregnant and have more dependants. In addition, they pretend to be students and within a short time they stop attending classes and disappear. They can’t be traced as they have changed address.  They get reported to the UKBA and you never see published statistics on how many are ever traced and deported successfully.   The widespread belief is that the majority are never found and merely join the vast ‘black economy’ in this country.

If any do go through the motions of attending classes, they are often absent through ‘illness’ with scrappy and highly dubious-looking medical certificates from Indian ‘doctors’ or ‘medical centres’ in Wembley or Southall or somewhere similar.   These are only ever produced way after the event when threatened with being reported to the UKBA.  Whereas you and I would be off work for 1 or 2 days with ‘flu or backpain, these people seem to be signed off for a month or more by their ‘doctors’ to get over the slightest illness.

When they do attend, they are totally disinterested in studying and fail dismally. All they want to do is work, and they are supposed to have a 20-hour a week limit (new students now have a limit of 10 hours), but it seems obvious from their attendance patterns that they work longer than the maximum allowed. There are many employers of their own nationality who will flout the law on employing immigrant workers, as it’s cheap labour. Work always takes precedence over their ‘studies’, so they are constantly late for classes or fail to attend regularly unless threatened with being reported.  The whole system of student visas is therefore a joke.

So I go home every day on the bus and all around me there are people not speaking my own language:  Russians, Africans, Indians, Somalis – all life is there.

I go to the supermarket on Saturday in Wandsworth and have to pass through what is now called ‘Southside’.  Without fail, crowds of immigrant families are in the street, or in the mall, dressed in their black robes and with 6 kids for each mother. You usually get 2 or 3 of these families out together, making several groups of a dozen or more, with kids ranging from babies to teens.

They come out of their council flats and walk around without a care in the world – not just on Saturdays, but on any day of the week you may visit the shopping mall.  They always have lots of shopping bags filled with goods from Primark and wherever else they spend their money.  How they get the money and the council flats I can only speculate. They appear to be Somalis, a very distinctive-looking people, so are they ALL asylum-seekers?

I have to go to the hospital occasionally as I have had some health issues as a man approaching sixty.  I’ve worked all my life and now need to use an NHS service that I have been helping to pay  for over the last 45 years.  When I go to the local GP or the hospital, what do I see?  Queues of the same people I meet at work and in the supermarket and in the street:  Indians, Somalis, many other nationalities, but very few of my fellow English citizens by birth.  Certainly the proportion of immigrants in the waiting rooms, as you observe them come and go, is much higher than the immigration statistics would lead you to believe.

What do we have in the UK -  9%… 10% immigrants now?  In the GP’s or the hospital waiting rooms they must represent around 80% of the queue or more. I wonder how much THEY have paid into our tax and National Insurance system.  I can’t help feeling that I have worked all my life to give it away to these people.

I appreciate that some readers have what they consider balanced and fair views about immigration.  As for my own views, I am not a racist and never have been. The colour of someone’s skin is of no consequence whatsoever.

The rich, Tory-voting classes who need cheap foreign labour, will still want this flow of immigrants to continue. Their housing, transport, local communities or healthcare are not affected in the same way as they are for ordinary working people. The mealy-mouthed LibDems wouldn’t dream of picking on immigration as an issue for fear of being called racist. Labour has lost its way and is too scared of anything approaching a working-class policy or manifesto. Heaven forbid, in the age of the Miliblands.

I am not especially patriotic, the ‘refuge of a scoundrel’ and all that, but I do believe that we will lose whatever culture we have if we don’t stop immigration soon.

We need to wake up now.