Are Labour solely to blame for immigration numbers?...

Joy Division wrote:Of course there have been many immigrants over the past few years and what with Romanians and Bulgarians now free to come here, but can anyone provide credible evidence of when immigration numbers first started to rocket?..

I guess it's been a gradual thing, but I find it hard to believe that past Conservative governments never played theor part , all we hear is "that's Labour's fault" ...not that I'm saying Labour done enough to curb numbers, but I don't think the Comservative governments of yesteryear were any better than Labour..

Of course now we have the EU, but I would just like some to acknowledge that immigration numbers were not the fault of Labour alone.

BigAndy9 wrote:Well they've apologised several times over the past 5 years or so.

Irn Bru wrote:

Joy Division wrote:Of course there have been many immigrants over the past few years and what with Romanians and Bulgarians now free to come here, but can anyone provide credible evidence of when immigration numbers first started to rocket?..

I guess it's been a gradual thing, but I find it hard to believe that past Conservative governments never played theor part , all we hear is "that's Labour's fault" ...not that I'm saying Labour done enough to curb numbers, but I don't think the Comservative governments of yesteryear were any better than Labour..

Of course now we have the EU, but I would just like some to acknowledge that immigration numbers were not the fault of Labour alone.

They are not solely to blame JD and the Tories bear a heavy responsibility for their part in all of it by signing the Single European Act and and the Maastricht Treaty which introduced free movement across our borders. Prior to that the only time we really did have open door immigration was back in the 60s when the Tory government declared that there was no need for controls to be placed on immigration from all the Commonwealth countries. That's their legacy and the can't deny it because it's all on record. They did change it but only after huge numbers came here prior to that happening.