Parliament is set to debate further controls on immigration into Britain this week after a petition was lodged via the government website.
Migrationwatch UK created the e-petition, entitled ‘No to 70 Million’, which has so far gained over 143,000 signatures from people calling on the government to take the necessary steps to reduce immigration and stabilise the country’s population to ensure that it does not reach 70 million.
At present, the country’s population is projected to reach approximately 78 million by 2050, but the petition is looking to stabilise this at closer to 65 million.
Two-thirds of the projected increase is predicted to come from continued mass immigration according to those backing the petition. Two MPs, Sir Nicholas Soames from the Conservatives and Frank Field from Labour, support the petition and together with Migrationwatch UK have voiced public concerns that mass immigration is having a hugely adverse impact upon our quality of life and upon our public services.
The matter will now be debated and while it is not expected to result in the passing of any new laws, it could result in a more vigilant attitude on the part of government and the UK Border Agency in their enforcement of existing immigration and UK visa quotas.
Since the general election in 2010, the Conservative led coalition government has stated it’s commitment to reducing immigration levels from the current level of around 250,000 a year to the “tens of thousands” by the end of the current parliamentary term. It has proposed that this reduction can be achieved through stricter UK work permit and visa conditions, although after more than two years since the coalition government took office there is little evidence of any impact on immigrant numbers so far.
Many observers doubt the sincerity of the government’s stated intentions, citing outright Lib Dem opposition to immigration controls and pointing to the litany of mistakes, errors and misjudgements that have become a constant feature of successive Labour and Conservative governments. Each one of these mistakes, errors and misjudgements seems to always work in favour of the prospective immigrant to such an extent that they can scarcely any longer be credibly regarded as truly ‘accidental’ occurrences.
There is widespread belief that while Labour and the Lib-Dems wish to permit continued mass immigration for ideological reasons, the Conservative hierarchy value mass immigration as a source of cheap labour for their commercial sponsors.
Ade
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But I thought we needed to import a highly advanced third world workforce.
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Stuart
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Talk is cheap and I will not hold out much hope that the debate will result in an end to immigration and the resulting rising population. I do not oppose immigration based on just stopping coloured immigration whilst continuing to allow white immigration, I am in favour of a total end to all immigration including white and ex-pats so the population can be first stabilised and then reduced. With depleating farmland, housing shortage and strained infrastructure, unemployment and lower living standards, a rising population is crazy.
As long as big business wants to drive down wages by oversupply of the labour market fueled by immigrant and economic migrant workers, immigration will continue as those business’s pull the strings of the government and hold government to ransom by threatening to relocate their business’s in other countries. I say let em because we are made of sturdy stuff and will survive a little hardship if ther end result is worth it. We have good people here who could be highly skilled and highly advanced too if the will to educate and train people was there.