IMMIGRATION

The Tories’ recent statement on immigration has been met with a few supportive comments from some quarters. Nevertheless, it has not been promoted with much enthusiasm by Dave Cameron himself nor by the Tory Party generally.

The statement only concerns itself with economic migration. It does not advocate an end to mass immigration at all. In fact it openly advocates that there should continue to be an annual flow of net migration into Britain.

Given that there are many Britons who emigrate each year, then the Tory policy is a policy for the continuation of substantial mass immigration. Even the Labour MP Frank Field has pointed out the turnover effect of the current levels of emigration/immigration [see English Rights Campaign item dated the 5 July 2006].

In support of their analysis the Tories even quote approvingly an extract from a controversial speech given by Trevor Phillips last year [see English Rights Campaign item dated the 5 October 2005]. The English Rights Campaign firmly rejects Mr Phillips’s race zealotry, and rejects both his and the Tories’ commitment to the British Inquisition.

Nevertheless, the flannel and political correctness produced by the Tories has proved far too much for UKIP [aka the UK Immigration Party], whose own commitment to mass immigration remains intact. To UKIP the Tory policy is not politically correct enough.

Recently UKIP issued a press release in support of the Labour immigration policy, which had been criticised in a report that had pointed out that failed asylum seekers ended up sleeping rough when their benefits were withdrawn after their appeals were rejected. UKIP expressed ‘solidarity with the government’!

A UKIP spokesman said:

‘If these people are in this country as refugees, and they have had that claim rejected, then our obligation to provide for them ceases … If people aren't refugees then why does the taxpayer have an obligation to do anything for them?

At the end of the day, the taxpayer is paying.

We agree [with the government] that people whose refugee status is unfounded should not be here. They have a choice to either live outside the system in the UK or to return home.’

The point is that the so-called asylum system is nonsense and should be abolished. The UK should withdraw from the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees at once and refuse to take any further so-called asylum seekers, who have crossed a multitude of other countries and even entire continents to get here.

Failed asylum seekers are illegal immigrants and should be deported [they should have no choice in the matter at all]. Labour is not doing that. This is especially dangerous when we are supposed to be conducting a war on terror. The continuing terrorist plots recently highlighted by MI5 show the importance of this.

But UKIP truly excelled itself regarding the recent Tory statement. They dismissed the Tory policy as racist. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, said:

‘The overall effect of such a policy is the imposition of a colour bar, which favours the 450 million white Europeans who live in the EU. It also makes it more difficult for those people hoping to come here to work from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent. If Britain needs people with skills, then it should permit only the very best, regardless of their country of origin.

The absurdity of the Tory argument is that an open door to EU citizens is fine, but that the door should be slammed shut on the rest of the world, including many Commonwealth countries.
This is a Party which is quick to throw insults at others about being racist, but there is something inherently nasty about this new policy.’

The danger posed by UKIP’s determination to give immigrants from the Commonwealth the same ‘right’ to enter Britain as immigrants from the EU was dealt with in the English Rights Campaign item dated the 14 February 2005.

Such a policy is madness.

The English Democrats are the only responsible party unequivocally advocating a complete end to mass immigration.