A Serious Problem Deserves A Serious Debate
There was something revealing about our Chairman, Alp Mehmet’s, appearance this week before the Public Bill Committee considering the Government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
The NHS Must Break Its Dependence On Overseas Recruitment
Overseas recruitment allows governments to postpone the investment needed to attract and retain staff here, and should be treated as a policy failure to overcome, rather than justification to continue the failure.
Immigration Ponzi Scheme Puts Pensions in Peril
The pensions crisis remains unresolved while population growth – driven by migration – continues at a historically unprecedented pace, as young migrants too grow older and become the pensioners of the future.
New Home Office Stats Show Government Still Hasn’t Got A Grip
Bringing numbers down from historically exceptional highs is one thing. Restoring a properly controlled, sustainable immigration system, at levels the country can absorb, is quite another.
The Home Office’s Plan To Stop Asylum Rapes
How Shabana Mahmood of all people, nominally more sensible and measured than many of her predecessors, could possibly have seen merit in the booklet published earlier this week, “Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide to asylum seekers”, beggars belief.
For Boatload, Read Planeload
This week, UK Border Force escorted a single inflatable dinghy into Dover carrying 230 people. The boat broke a record set just seventeen days earlier. And no wonder – the French authorities have adopted a hands-off approach, allowing dinghies like this to set off to be collected once they enter British waters.
What Do We Mean By The White British?
It is amazing what journalists and commentators will pretend not to understand for the sake of creating a story. On Radio 4 this week Nick Robinson pressed Rupert Lowe on whether the King qualifies as a White Briton. While Fraser Nelson dismissed the whole notion of the White British becoming a minority as “a trope designed to go viral on social, to be repeated uncritically by shysters”.
England’s Housing Crisis and Immigration
Migration Watch has long warned of the impact of mass, uncontrolled migration on Britain’s housing market. In January this year, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a response to concerns about a new government scheme to build houses for migrants:
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Some questions are simple to ask and simple to answer, yet remain central to the national debate over migration. Questions such as, “Do some migrant groups offend at higher rates than others and how do these compare with overall population size?” are straightforward and should be easy to collate. Other countries manage it. For example, Denmark’s (left-wing) government publishes these figures, showing that conviction rates for violent crimes among recent migrants are a staggering 40 times higher than those born in Denmark. Perhaps this gives a clue as to why our government has made it so damnably difficult to establish the comparable figures for Britain?
We Warned Them: Indian National Insurance Exemption Extended
This week, with minimal fanfare, the renegotiated UK–India trade deal came into effect – and buried deep within it was confirmation that the much-criticised National Insurance exemption for seconded Indian workers has been extended from three years to five. The Indian government has briefed domestic media, telling them the deal will “ease temporary entry for business visitors, transferees, investors, service suppliers and independent professionals”.