Right-wing press parrott Damian Green on asylum inefficiency
The right-wing press have parroted Damian Green’s misleading claims about the asylum seeker system. But the figures reveal that staff are clearing the backlog.
Immigration
Grayling’s immigration cap is “completely Stalinist”
Chris Grayling’s immigration cap policy was criticised last night at an ippr event. Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne described it as “completely Stalinist.”
Britain needs an honest debate on population
National Statistics has published its annual review of population change. Births and deaths, rather than immigration, are responsible for the increase.
Net A8 migration down 88 per cent
Net migration from Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia fell 88 per cent from the previous year, to just 9,000.
Migration and Population: Facts, forecasts, and fiction
Much of the panic about population is based on ONS projections. It is important to note that these are not forecasts and net migration is lower than expected.
Is the Government answering the wrong question on immigration?
Gordon Brown entered the controversial debate on immigration today. His speech was full of policy detail but lacked an effective political narrative.
Two-thirds support Government’s points-based immigration system
Sunday’s News of the World poll showed 64 % of the public supported the Government’s ponts-based immigration system – yet only 21 % thought their policies best.
Mail immigration deception
Statistics in today’s Daily Mail on immigration are deceiving and misleading. They fail to show that net migration has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years.
You wouldn’t know it from the tabloids, but immigration is starting to fall
If you want to scare the hell out of people on immigration, big numbers will usually do the trick. So here’s a few to get you going. There are 6.6 million foreign-born people in the UK, up by 2.3 milliontest
Visa changes threaten Universities & fan anti-immigrant fears
Universities are protesting recent changes to the visa application system after processing delays prevented many foreign students from starting their studies.