migration
The Immigration Bill does little to solve the real housing issues
This week the government launched a consultation into their proposal to require private landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants.
Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this
Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what's wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.
Speaker Bercow is right: migrants are harder workers
John Bercow is getting a lot of flack right now from the right-wing press for comments made in Romania in which he seemed to imply that EU migrants were better workers than their British counterparts.
How attractive is Britain to ‘benefit tourists’?
It's been reported that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is to challenge the EU commissioner Laszlo Andor after the latter, along with his fellow commissioners, announced that the commission would be taking Britain to court for discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
EU benefits are ‘land grab’ by Brussels, says Duncan Smith
The EU Commissioner for employment and social affairs, Laszlo Andor, is taking the British government to court over what it says are discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
The measures in the Queen’s Speech won’t solve the government’s immigration problem
Front and centre in today’s Queen's Speech was the announcement that the government will be limiting the ability for certain migrants to use the Human Rights Act – and its provision for the right to a private and family life - to avoid deportation.