W12 said:SEVEN KEY FACTS
Net migration quintupled from 50,000 in 1997 to 250,000 in 2010. Over 3 million immigrants have arrived since 1997. Net migration fell to 163,000 in the year to June 2012 as government policies took effect.
A migrant arrives almost every minute but they leave at only just over half that rate.
More people have now migrated to the UK in a single year (2010) than did so in the entire period from 1066 to 1950, excluding wartime.
We must build a new home every seven minutes for new migrants.
England is already, with the Netherlands, the most crowded country in Europe, excluding island and city states.
The population of the UK will grow by over 7 million to 70 million in the next 15 years, 5 million due to immigration - that is the equivalent of the current populations of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Sheffield, Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Oxford.
Rascal said:Markt85 said:Bluebee2 said:Where on earth do you get the million and millions figure from of Immigrants coming here ?
It's my own question. I'm wondering if Rascal would have no issue with immigration no matter what the number, even if it was proved that immigration is effecting our housing, jobs etc I'm just curious if he would EVER be concerned about this or would he call us all nut jobs regardless.
Have you any understanding of how the EU free market works?
Its EU housing and health now not UK and thats what you anti european nutbogs miss
Ducado said:Eh? What you on about EU housing and health? There are health agreements between member states but nothing about housing
roaminblue said:I'd also like to add that its partly our own fault that we are so unable to take advantage of freedom of movement. When modern languages were taken off compulsary curriculums, we lost any opportunity to take advantage of any sort of globalised unions or economies.
roaminblue said:I'd also like to add that its partly our own fault that we are so unable to take advantage of freedom of movement.
Documents passed to the Guardian show Mr McConnachie took a far stronger line in emails to party members. He wrote to one critic, executive member Christopher Skeate, saying: " I don't accept that gas chambers were used to execute Jews for the simple fact there is no direct physical evidence to show that such gas chambers ever existed... there are no photographs or film of execution gas chambers... Alleged eyewitness accounts are revealed as false or highly exaggerated."
Mr McConnachie has publicly said the Pope had been misled about numbers of Jews killed at Auschwitz, and has accused the board of deputies of "seeking to establish a monopoly in the marketplace of ideas" because it complained to the BBC about the handling of Mr Irving's views.