Immigration figure published.

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Not good news for Cameron!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...o-more-than-quarter-of-a-million-9886603.html

David Cameron’s pledge to cut immigration is in ruins after net annual migration soared to more than a quarter of a million.

Official figures this morning showed net migration rose to 260,000 in the 12 months to June, compared with 182,000 in the previous year.

Before the election Mr Cameron promised to reduce the figure from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands and asked to be judged on whether he hit the target.

But today’s statistics show net migration is now running at higher levels than the Government inherited from Labour.

They will add to the pressure over immigration on the Prime Minister, who is due to outline proposals within days for limiting migration from the EU.

The bulk of the new arrivals are economic migrants from the EU – principally from Eastern Europe as well as Mediterranean countries – who have full entitlement to work in Britain.

According to the Office for National Statistics, 583,000 people moved to the UK over the period, a “statistically significant increase” from the 502,000 in the previous 12 months. It included a 45,000 rise from the EU and 30,000 from outside the EU.

Net migration to the UK – the difference between those arriving and leaving – was 260,000 in the period as 323,000 people emigrated from the country.
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Plenty of political capital for UKIP and even Labour there. :D
 
Go to Canterbury, I feel like I'm in Poland so UKIP all the way

I'm for immigration but not mass immigration, not when your entire town is starting to sound like another country :(
 
I am all for immigration too, but considering the housing issues facing people here I cannot help but think we need to limit the amount of people coming here.
 
They should have controlled it from the EU. They instead put a limit on spousal visa's by raising the income threshold to £18.6k, this does not apply to countries in the EU. Unfair as people's relationships are struggling because of that.

Good job Theresa May.
 
anticonscience said:
I am all for immigration too, but considering the housing issues facing people here I cannot help but think we need to limit the amount of people coming here.
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Good point. The NHS is facing unprecedented pressure, at a time when public services are being cut, is mass immigration a good thing?
 
It's the same even in the towns up here in Scotland, every where you go you hear eastern european languages being spoken. Even the estate agents have started putting what looks like Polish translation underneath the English description of the property for rental adverts.
 
I'm all for being educated here. But with the freedom of movement act from the EU, how can we stop people from within the EU coming here?
 
balky12 said:
I'm all for being educated here. But with the freedom of movement act from the EU, how can we stop people from within the EU coming here?
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That is the thing, being critical of an immigration policy doesn't mean you are critical of the immigrants, you can't blame them for wanting better.

We have no control of EU immigration, full stop, LibLabCon can shout as much as they want, there is nothing they can do.
 
balky12 said:
I'm all for being educated here. But with the freedom of movement act from the EU, how can we stop people from within the EU coming here?
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Well you can negotiate with the EU and say, "look, this rule isn't working for us please can we change it?" or we can leave the EU.

Personally I think it's getting to the point now where we should just change UK law to control migration from the EU, which will contravene EU law (like Switzerland has done) but they're unlikely to be able to do anything about it quickly and the decide which of the above we want to do.
 
I really hate to support the Conservatives usual reply of "its the mess labour left" but I think it'll take a lot longer than one or two governments to actually undo it.
 
Just been lolling to myself remembering all the pro-immigration lot confidently predicting that not many Romanians or Bulgarians would come to the UK because they don't have any cultural ties to the UK like Polish people did.
 
Immigration in general is fine. But the volume of it at the moment is too high. A quarter of a million people a year is unsustainable and has massively contributed to the housing crisis in the south.

Cameron loudly promised that immigration would be under 100,000 under the tories, but now it's higher than under the last labour government! Shambles.

What's more, The tories blame the EU, but even without EU migrants they still wouldn't hit their target!

Labour and Tory inaction on this issue has unfortunately resulted in UKIP's rise, but the main parties only have themselves to blame.
 
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They'll be teaching Hindi and Amharic instead of Spanish, French and German soon.

platypus said:
I really hate to support the Conservatives usual reply of "its the mess labour left" but I think it'll take a lot longer than one or two governments to actually undo it.
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Maybe, but you'd at least expect a static value, or a slight decline, not a massive increase!
 
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