Miliband still in denial on Labour’s immigration failure – they didn’t “see it”, they caused it | Migration Watch UK
Net foreign immigration under Labour was over three million yet their leader’s only reference to immigration in his Conference speech was a single sentence: “And we have seen immigration policy which didn’t work for the people whose jobs, living standards and communities were affected”. “They didn’t see it. They caused it”, said Sir Andrew Green, […]
Seven out of Ten Lib Dem Voters Want Net Immigration sharply cut: New poll shows strong support for Cameron’s target | Migration Watch UK
A new YouGov poll has found that 72% of potential Liberal Democrat voters want net immigration of 100,000 or less per year. A majority (55%) of Lib Dem supporters wanted to see a much lower figure of 50,000 or less. Only 8% wanted the present level of 200,000 a year or more. Results for Labour […]
Immigration Under Labour – Chaos or Conspiracy? | Migration Watch UK
Figures due out on Thursday will, for the first time, officially confirm that net foreign immigration under Labour exceeded three million. This is the context for a detailed indictment of the Labour Government’s record on immigration published today in Briefing Paper No 11.24. It forensically examines one of the most significant and far reaching changes ever […]
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee 8 February, 2011
Examination of Witnesses Witnesses: Sir Andrew Green KCMG, Chairman, MigrationWatch UK, and Mr Alper Mehmet, Member, Advisory Council, MigrationWatch UK, gave evidence. Q125 Chair: Sir Andrew, Mr Mehmet, you are old stagers at this Committee, so you know the format, so I will not go through it again, and you have been sitting in at the evidence. Thank […]
Back Bench Debate on Immigration. Rebuttal of Briefing by the Mayor of London. | Migration Watch UK
The Scale of immigration The GLA Briefing claims (paragraph 4) that “net international migration in 2009 was at its lowest level since mid 1995 which is comparable to the government’s target”. This is quite wrong. As the paper recognises elsewhere, net international migration in 2009 is estimated at 196,000; in 1995 it was 76,000. The […]
Labour’s “Tough” Points Based System Actually Increased Immigration | Migration Watch UK
Analysis of the latest immigration statistics by think-tank Migrationwatch (see Annex below) has revealed what Labour were anxious to conceal during the election campaign, namely that their so called “tough” Points Based System (PBS) has actually led to an increase in immigration. For several months, the previous government declined to answer Parliamentary questions on the […]
Immigration Issue Might Have Swung The Election | Migration Watch UK
A tougher stance on immigration from the political parties could have changed the result of the General Election, a new opinion poll has revealed. The poll, by YouGovfor think tank Migrationwatch, shows that the Conservatives might have won an outright majority if they had adopted ‘a stronger stance on controlling immigration.’ 54% who selected Conservatives as […]
Lib Dem Voters Strongly Opposed to an Amnesty | Migration Watch UK
A new poll out today shows that the public are opposed to Nick Clegg’s policy of an amnesty for illegal immigrants. Among those intending to vote for the Liberal Democrats, opponents outnumber supporters by more than two to one. The poll by YouGov, commissioned by MigrationwatchUK, did not use the term “amnesty”. Instead, it described […]
Migrationwatch briefing – Clegg struggles on immigration policy | Migration Watch UK
Interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC 1 on Sunday morning, Nick Clegg was clearly struggling to defend Lib Dem immigration policy. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman, MigrationwatchUK, said: “It is shocking that the leader of one of the main political parties should be so poorly informed about an issue of enormous concern to the public. […]
Comment on Liberal Democrat Manifesto | Migration Watch UK
‘This is immigration with no limits whatsoever but spiced up with two unworkable proposals – a regional immigration policy that would be impossible to enforce and an amnesty that is certain to encourage still further illegal immigration. The LibDems are treating the public as if they were fools.’