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Nicholas Soames urges huge cut in immigration to limit population growth

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Nicholas Soames has said migration needs to be controlled

In a debate in Parliament’s Westminster Hall, Nicholas Soames MP warned that annual immigration must be slashed by three-quarters if the UK population is not to reach 70 million by 2030.

Winston Churchill’s grandson said failing to bring immigration under control “very substantially” could even lead to the total rising to 85 million.  The MP for Mid Sussex, who co-chairs the Cross-Party Group on Balanced Migration with Frank Field MP, said ministers remained “in denial” over the impacts of increasing population growth.

The former minister highlighted the impact on schools, maternity units and social housing and said England was now the most overcrowded country in Europe alongside Holland.

Mr Soames’ warnings were echoed by fellow Tory and Labour MPs.

Mr Soames, who backs the Nothing British campaign, told fellow MPs:

“The only way to limit our population is to get immigration down very substantially. Indeed it must be reduced from last year’s 160,000 to 40,000 or less if we are to avoid a population of 70 million.  Failure to bring immigration under control means a continually growing population, well beyond 70 million, even to 80 or 85 million in the latter part of the century.”

Commentators are now saying that the failure to address the issue of migration has played into the hands of the British National Party and we agree. For too long people have been afraid to address people’s concerns on this issue because they have felt it legitimises the extremist party. It’s about time the immigration debate was reclaimed by the mainstream so that reasonable and humane measures are adopted to deal with the impact of uncontrolled migration.

Maurice Cousins 

 

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Immigration still a big concern for voters

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The Tories pose a threat to the BNP

Immmigration was again in the news this weekend as more evidence showed the importance of this issue to voters.

First, a Sunday Times poll commissioned by Migration Watch found that the Conservatives would benefit if they pledged to slash the numbers of immigrants entering Britain.

The ST report says:

YouGov found that 85% of people in the Labour marginals were worried about the population reaching 70m, with 49% saying they were “very worried”.

The poll found that 44% in Labour marginals would be more likely to vote Conservative if Cameron were to say outright that a Tory government would reduce immigration to 50,000 or below.

The poll comes after David Cameron told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that he believed that Labour’s immigration policy had been too high. “We should see net immigration in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands.”, Cameron said.

Further to this, the Equality and Human Rights Commission released a new report examining the effects of Eastern European migration, five years on. The report itself concluded that “There is no strong reason to expect a significant negative impact on wages or employment in response to the recent immigrant influx” and yet this was still widely translated in the media as “Immigration ‘has hit the low paid’”. With this wide based perception, it is no surprise that this issue matters so much to voters.

There is no strong reason to expect a
significant negative impact on wages or
employment in response to the recent
immigrant influx.

The news that the Tories would be the main beneficiaries in Labour marginals from having a tougher immigration policy is bad news for the BNP. It shows that when it comes to sensitive issues like immigration and social cohesion the Conservatives are trusted more by the British electorate than any other party.

Furthermore, the poll shows how the Conservatives can win in Labour heartlands, areas where the BNP have been attempting to break into since 2005.

No one is calling for a bidding war between the BNP and the Tories over immigration, but the YouGov poll is an important insight into how the electorate are desperately calling for the mainstream to show some initiative on this issue.

Nothing British hopes that the mainstream parties realize that saying nothing on this issue is not an option.

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Cameron: I’ll tackle Immigration

Monday, January 11th, 2010

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.

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