VERITAS IMMIGRATION POLICY
11 February 2005
Fresh from their very recent launch, Veritas has now published a manifesto section on its website. Included is the party’s policy on immigration.
Despite the emotive language concerning immigration from Robert Kilroy-Silk on the day of the launch, the actual policy is very establishment in outlook. Regarding asylum seekers, the party says that: ‘We will only take our fair share of refugees’, which of course sounds very nice and responsible. But what does it mean?
The commitment is very similar to the Conservative Party policy. Far from the Conservatives cribbing policies from RKS, now it seems it is RKS cribbing policies from the Conservatives.
Assuming that ‘our fair share’ amounts to 20,000 per annum, which is the figure the Conservatives cite as a maximum, this would cost around £400million per annum (at £20,000 per asylum seeker). This £400million would provide an average income for roughly 1.2million Ethiopians, where the average income is only £333 per annum (or thereabouts). The income for genuine refugees is obviously much lower.
A policy which was determined to maximise the benefit to refugees and the poor, would not involve transporting asylum seekers across several countries and even entire continents in order to waste money on keeping them where they are not wanted. The best and most effective policy is to help them where they are. The Veritas policy on asylum seekers is a cop out, and designed more to seek approval from the race war industry rather than to maximise the assistance to genuine refugees.
Regarding immigration in general, Veritas attacks the concept of mass immigration, and then commits to withdrawing the UK from the EU and says that they will only ‘admit only those (immigrants) that are needed because of their skills’.
It does not say whether there will be a limit on their numbers, nor how it will deal with arranged and bogus marriages or family reunification.
Presently, there are more than 1million people claiming incapacity benefit as a result of depression or stress. If there is any skills shortage, then that is as a result of a lack of training/retraining and not an immigration problem.
Fresh from their very recent launch, Veritas has now published a manifesto section on its website. Included is the party’s policy on immigration.
Despite the emotive language concerning immigration from Robert Kilroy-Silk on the day of the launch, the actual policy is very establishment in outlook. Regarding asylum seekers, the party says that: ‘We will only take our fair share of refugees’, which of course sounds very nice and responsible. But what does it mean?
The commitment is very similar to the Conservative Party policy. Far from the Conservatives cribbing policies from RKS, now it seems it is RKS cribbing policies from the Conservatives.
Assuming that ‘our fair share’ amounts to 20,000 per annum, which is the figure the Conservatives cite as a maximum, this would cost around £400million per annum (at £20,000 per asylum seeker). This £400million would provide an average income for roughly 1.2million Ethiopians, where the average income is only £333 per annum (or thereabouts). The income for genuine refugees is obviously much lower.
A policy which was determined to maximise the benefit to refugees and the poor, would not involve transporting asylum seekers across several countries and even entire continents in order to waste money on keeping them where they are not wanted. The best and most effective policy is to help them where they are. The Veritas policy on asylum seekers is a cop out, and designed more to seek approval from the race war industry rather than to maximise the assistance to genuine refugees.
Regarding immigration in general, Veritas attacks the concept of mass immigration, and then commits to withdrawing the UK from the EU and says that they will only ‘admit only those (immigrants) that are needed because of their skills’.
It does not say whether there will be a limit on their numbers, nor how it will deal with arranged and bogus marriages or family reunification.
Presently, there are more than 1million people claiming incapacity benefit as a result of depression or stress. If there is any skills shortage, then that is as a result of a lack of training/retraining and not an immigration problem.
posted by erc @ 5:28 pm
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