Huge increase in immigration to Britain

MORE than a million foreigners have been given the right to settle in Britain since Labour came to power, after a sudden surge in numbers last year, according to figures published yesterday.

Foreign settlement is three times the rate it was when Tony Blair entered Downing Street, and the number soared by almost 30 per cent last year.

The huge growth in settlement reflects the increasing migrant flow over the past decade, as foreigners can only apply to settle after being in the country for five years.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said: “These are very large figures. They are the inevitable consequence of the Government deliberately stimulating immigration over the past nine years. There are people coming through the system in everincreasing numbers. That will continue as people who have been here five years can apply for settlement followed by citizenship.”

Officials at the Home Office predicted that yesterday’s figures would lead eventually to a jump in the number seeking and being granted citizenship. A migrant who is allowed to settle can apply for a British passport a year later.

The number of migrants given settlement last year increased by 40,000 to a record figure of 179,120, compared with 58,700 in 1997. The figures do not include arrivals from the EU.

More than 70 per cent of those given settlement rights were from Africa, Asia and the Indian sub-continent, with a further 20 per cent from North and South America and European states outside the European Economic Area.

Sudden increases of people being granted settlement were recorded from a number of areas, including a rise of almost 100 per cent in citizens of Asian countries outside the Indian sub-continent, a 37 per cent rise in nationals from African countries and a 20 per cent increase in nationals from the Indian sub-continent.

In contrast, there was a decline of 22 per cent in settlement by citizens from European countries and a 2 per cent drop in those from North and South America.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2324766,00.html

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Posted by Kulturkampf on August 23, 2006, 05:01 PM | #

Pleased to see that JJR’s latest provocation has been removed from the site.

Han today and gone tomorrow?

Posted by Al Ross on August 24, 2006, 02:02 AM | #

Indeed K, its a Hans down victory for commonsense.

Posted by Kenelm Digby on August 24, 2006, 09:48 AM | #

It is very likely that Great Britain has the most permissive ‘immigration policy’ of any major nation on Earth.
Essentially, the Blair government, on the sly, is operating the kind of ‘opn-door’, ‘borderless World’ type of non-policy long advocated by such extreme right-wing (in economic theory terms) publications as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and The New York Times.Really it is basically neo-con orthodoxy as openly espoused by Blair’s good friend and patron Rupert Murdoch.
How this policy was blatantly and deliberately foisted upon the long-suffereing (and soon to to be minoritized) native British population, (despite all government claims to be the victims of their own incompetence and short-sightedness - emphatically NOT TRUE - it is a ‘hidden’ policy), which is antithetical to all historic British socialist/workerist tradition is a mystery that perhaps only the passage of time will shed light upon.

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