Cameron: Immigration must be cut
According to The Sun, David Cameron has indicated that a future Conservative government would seek to cut immigration by 75%.
The Conservative Party leader said he did not want to allow the population to reach 70 million, as predicted by the Office for National Statistics, “because of pressure on public services”.
Mr Cameron told the BBC that current net immigration levels (the number of people migrating to Britain over and above those emigrating) are too high and that they needed to be heavily cut.
Although net immigration has declined over the last couple of years, as a result of the recession, Mr Cameron believes that levels are still too high and put a heavy burden on Britain’s infrastructure. Previous levels have been around 200,000, or 2 million immigrants over ten years.
Mr Cameron’s remarks come after Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, called for immigration to be controlled and announced his support for the cross party group Balanced Migration.
Mr Cameron’s call for a decrease in net immigration has been supported by Sir Andrew Green, the director of the independent campaign organisation Migration Watch, which seeks to limit immigration. But he has added that if he is serious about this issue he will make a concrete manifesto commitment.
Sir Andrew says, “Mr Cameron is on to something. The only means open to the Government to limit population is to limit immigration. If the Tory leader is serious he will put it into his party’s election manifesto — and it will be hugely popular.”
Nothing British has for a long time argued that immigration needs to be looked at and that it is a major concern for millions of ordinary people. We therefore support yesterday’s comments to Andrew Marr by Mr Cameron.
However, Westminster politicians have got to realise that for millions of hard-working people it is not enough to simply offer soundbites, more is needed on how they will address the issue of mass immigration. We hope that in the run up to the General Election all the mainstream parties provide more information to their candidates on how they will tackle immigration.
Tags: David Cameron, immigration
Oh no he won’t!
I thought Sam said that the panto season had finished?
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As for taking “facts” from the Sun, that’s on a par with getting info from far left websites on the BNP.
But “The Sun” = Murdoch = Nothing British = backing the Conservatives.
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Sam lives in west of scotland cloud cuckoo land. He is annoyed because the people who manufacture vaseline have just gone on strike.
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LOL! Either Cameron is extremely stupid or he is a bare-faced LIAR!
I would suggest the latter!
You can not stop immigration as long as Britain is part of the odious EU, and from what I can gather Cameron has no intention of giving us a referendum on the lisbon treaty let alone pulling us out of EUSSR!
Empty words? Downright lies more like!
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Yes while we remain in the EU, David Cameron can change the tea bags, as Jason Norris put it, but that is about it.
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You s aint british anymore,you s aint british anymore
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Sam has got it right this time! We are no longer British, we are european, which of course we always were but now it has a different conception, we are european only and subject to all that it stands for, corruption being the number one factor, for starters, do not audit our accounts etc. Cameron has backed down on the referendum, and the married allowance, he is a carbon copy of soundbite blair. Vote BNP. SIMPLE.
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When I was at school the British Isles were described as being off the coast of Europe.
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No Ta
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The EU & Islam don’t believe in the nation state, maybe that is why one encourages the other?
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so islam and the eu are one and the same?
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This is nothing more than hot air from cameron, the guy is a spineless moron. Cabbage patch cameron does not have the balls to tackle the important issues surrounding Britain today. All this is just election talk and nothing but lies.
Cabbage patch and his cohorts are no different from the Labour party and the Lib Dems on the immigration issue.
Nothing British about the pro-eu Torie party.
David Cameron = Cabbage Patch Doll – Call me Dave – Spineless – Dhimmi – Tony Blair MKII – Vain – Coward – Massive Forehead – Liar – Sly – The Chameleon.
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“Sam Pauli says:
January 11, 2010 at 6:46 pm
so islam and the eu are one and the same?”
No I spoke of one & the other!
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which frightens you most?
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Tackling immigration levels are one thing; addressing why people will not intergrate is another altogether.
Sounds like another load of bullshit if you ask me. Another reason people SHOULD vote BNP.
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Vote BNP
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Sam
I dislike Islam slightly more than the EU.
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I know ,they re all out to get us!BOO
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Cam moron is a cunt and brown is nearly fucking dead,thank god.
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Cameron is a toffee nosed git, who could not give a stuff about ordinary British people. The reason this pathetic website exists, is that the torys think it will stop people voting for the BNP. My undestanding is that the BNP gets its greatest support from northern England, which i believe is liebour territory; do the torys really believe thay will pick up disgruntled ex-liebour votes?
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Furthermore
could you really trust Cameron to tackle immigration?
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could you really trust cameron to tackle immitations?
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No because he is an imitation of Blair.
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[...] poll comes after David Cameron told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that he believed that Labour’s immigration policy had been too [...]
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