MW176 : The Weakness of the Student Points Based System | Migration Watch UK
Summary1 For some time the government has been trumpeting its “tough and flexible” Points Based System (PBS) as a solution to Britain’s immigration problems. On examination, it turns out that nearly three quarters of applications under the PBS are from foreign students and that the new system is neither tough nor flexible. On the contrary, […]
MW173 : Asylum – The Supreme Court Allows Repetitious Appeals | Migration Watch UK
1 The new United Kingdom Supreme Court began to function from 1 October 2009 from the sumptuously refurbished Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster. It took over the judicial function previously exercised by the House of Lords of being the final court of appeal for all courts in the United Kingdom. […]
“profile Of Migration Watch”
“Alongside the TaxPayers’ Alliance, MigrationWatch is one of Britain’s most effective campaigning organisations. “Its Chairman, Sir Andrew Green, has become Britain’s most quoted authority on immigration questions.” See the full article
Draft Immigration Bill 2009Migration Watch Comments
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS Note : In this summary and in the text which follows, our comments which involve adding new provisions to the draft Bill are shown in bold type. 1 This draft (Draft B) is a much enlarged version of the draft originally published in July 2008 (Draft A) and the comments which we […]
New poll shows seven out of ten want immigration slashed. 75% worried about impact immigration is having on Britain, 5% are pleased. Nearly 2/3rds of Labour voters want immigration sharply cut | Migration Watch UK
On the day that new Government statistics show that immigration in 2008 was 163,000, a new YouGov pollfor Migrationwatch UK reveals the vast majority of the public are concerned about immigration and want it cut substantially so that the UK’s population does not hit 70 million in 2029, as official figures project. To avoid the population […]
Immigration Figures Due For Release On 26 November 2009
Background Briefing Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. The note (Briefing Paper 9.26)puts the figures, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective.
Immigration Figures Due for Release on 26 November 2009Background Briefing | Migration Watch UK
Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. The note (Briefing Paper 9.26) puts the figures, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective.
MW170 : Immigration Figures Due for Release 26 November 2009Background Briefing | Migration Watch UK
Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. This Briefing Paper puts them, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective. The Government’s bogus claims 1 The Minister for Immigration has been claiming that net immigration “has fallen to 45% of […]
Sir Andrew Green: The Government’s Points Based Immigration System Is A Potential Disaster
Ministers have perfected a patter when talking about immigration. “We’re sorry – we’ve made mistakes, but we’re now getting it under control with our new, tough, Australian-style Points Based System”, they say. Last week, in his first speech on immigration in two years, Gordon Brown trumpeted the merits of the Points Based System (PBS) for […]
The Prime Minister’s Speech Ducked The Impact Of Immigration On Population
In his speech on 12 November, the Prime Minster made no mention of the official population projections which show that the population will reach 70 million in 2029. Some commentators have claimed that these projections are “meaningless”. Migrationwatch research (see Briefing Paper 9.25) puts this issue in prospective and shows that 70 million is very […]