Rochester And Strood By-Election

[Balti]

Net migration back at peak 2010 levels.
The Tories talking the talk but never walking the walk.

they have reduced immigration from outside the EU

they can't do anything about EU immigration of course although they are pretending that they can

the argument seems to be shifting more towards stopping benefit tourism now which seems to be what most people object to rather than immigration per se

 

[Len Rum]

Net migration back at peak 2010 levels.
The Tories talking the talk but never walking the walk.

they have reduced immigration from outside the EU

they can't do anything about EU immigration of course although they are pretending that they can

the argument seems to be shifting more towards stopping benefit tourism now which seems to be what most people object to rather than immigration per se

Your second sentence says it all - Cameron - "no ifs,no buts, this is one promise that must be kept" (reducing net migration to tens of thousands).
Your final sentence is a clever piece of revisionism.

 

[Len Rum]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good news, More migrants pay more tax than take benefits. good for the economy and if people would like to be here - i wouldnt stop them, were all human after all.

 

[stonerblue]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good news, More migrants pay more tax than take benefits. good for the economy and if people would like to be here - i wouldnt stop them, were all human after all.

What Mark said.

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good news, More migrants pay more tax than take benefits. good for the economy and if people would like to be here - i wouldnt stop them, were all human after all.

What Mark said.

This isn't the real picture though is it? Most of the economic migrants take poorly paid jobs and then claim more in terms of in work benefits than they pay in tax plus they place a burden on our services such as the NHS

Maybe a simple solution would be to stop any EU migrant from claiming in work benefits for the first five continuous years they are here or maybe until they have been in employment for a total of five years.

That would put a natural filter on the immigrants, it would relieve pressure on services and it would mean that employers can't just ship in migrants to do the bottom jobs at poor rates of pay. They would then have to crease wages to attract British workers.

Good plan?

 

[PrestwichPeteMcfc]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good. More money in the pot.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good. More money in the pot.

Record deficit, public borrowing going up suggests otherwise.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Official figures released today.
Net migration up 43% in one year to 260k, some 16k higher than June 2010 when Labour left office.
No ifs, No buts.

Good. More money in the pot.

Record deficit, public borrowing going up suggests otherwise.

Dave and the baronet Gideon failing at every level.

 

[Balti]

Good. More money in the pot.

Record deficit, public borrowing going up suggests otherwise.

Dave and the baronet Gideon failing at every level.

Labour created the deficit and they also encouraged an open door immigration policy so that doesn't scan

Nothing wrong with immigration

It's just uncontrolled immigration that many of us object to