Migration To The UK Rises

27th February 2014

24,000 from Romania & Bulgaria last year - well at least that has come down - there's only 1 this year isn't there - that Victor Spirescu guy, right?

Net migration to the UK rose to 212,000 in the year to September 2013 pushing it further away from government targets, according to official figures.

The Office for National Statistics said the net flow - the numbers moving here minus the numbers leaving the UK - rose from 154,000 in the previous year.

David Cameron says he wants to cut net migration to below 100,000 by 2015.

The increase appears to have been driven by a rise in the number of EU citizens coming to Britain.

There was an increase in new arrivals from Poland, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Some 24,000 citizens of Romania and Bulgaria also arrived in the year to September 2013, nearly three times the 9,000 who arrived in the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said in a report. Around 70% came to work, while 30% came to study.

Official figures for how many Romanians and Bulgarians have arrived since working restrictions were lifted on 1 January have yet to be released.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26367391

lets face it we need skilled workers, we will have a carwash per person soon...  

If Cameron is too frightened to do anything about immigration, who will do it?

BigAndy9 wrote:If Cameron is too frightened to do anything about immigration, who will do it?

he can't do anything about it, we do not govern this country...  

It suits Cameron. They get paid a pittance, and the employers just keep getting richer on everyone else's poverty.

Handy Andy wrote:It suits Cameron.  They get paid a pittance, and the employers just keep getting richer on everyone else's poverty.

Exactly. A lot of rich RWers benefit big time from cheap labor coming over from various countries   

Eilzel wrote:

Handy Andy wrote:It suits Cameron.  They get paid a pittance, and the employers just keep getting richer on everyone else's poverty.

Exactly. A lot of rich RWers benefit big time from cheap labor coming over from various countries   

Except it was labour who imported so many and pretended they didn't. Hello denial is your speciality.

kevins58 wrote:

Eilzel wrote:

Handy Andy wrote:It suits Cameron.  They get paid a pittance, and the employers just keep getting richer on everyone else's poverty.

Exactly. A lot of rich RWers benefit big time from cheap labor coming over from various countries   

Except it was labour who imported so many and pretended they didn't. Hello denial is your speciality.

No, freedom of movement was introduced by the Tories when they signed us up to the EU with the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty.

I'm sorry, if you don't know that conservatives throughout the Anglosphere (and elsewhere) are nothing but proxies for the wealthy elite, you're a fucking moron.

This is the conservative recipe -- promote prejudice and division between artificially delineated groups of people; lie your ass off; and tilt the playing field even more toward the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Anybody who can't see that frankly deserves to become a victim of their bullshit.

As we all know, the people of the UK want immigration stopped or drastically reduced.

Labour and the Lib Dems don't want it reduced.

The Conservatives promised to reduce it by 200,000 or so.

Those are the facts.

sphinx, what have UKIP said on this matter?

Let's deal in facts Ben and others, not silliness.