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,

Had to happen sooner or later. Newham Council wants to export 500 of its homeless families to Stoke-on-Trent, due to the cost and lack of private rented homes.

The rents in London are sky-high, the ‘government’ isn’t building any social housing but they decide to cap housing benefit rates. It’s like taking the tourniquet off an open wound.

Still, what do the Tories care? They’re all in it together, but it seems that the rest of us may not be in it with them after all. In a decent home with a roof over our heads, that is.

Wonder how many private landlords vote Tory?

Another example of life in Britain under the Conservatives: the ‘arrogant posh boys’ as they are described by one of their own MPs, Nadine Dorries, only today.

Are we stupid and gullible to put up with government like this, whether Tory, Labour or Lib Dumbs?

It’s time for big changes in our country.

The next Mayor must create Homes for London.

We thought we had left the ‘Cathy Come Home’ era of housing hardship back in the 1960s, but here we are again.   Poor government. Morally bankrupt politics and politicians. A selfish society we allowed to flourish.

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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”.

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