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Jack Straw has admitted that opening Britain's borders to Eastern European migrants was a "spectacular mistake".
The former Labour Home Secretary said his party's decision to allow migrants from Poland and Hungary to work in Britain from 2004 was a ‘"well-intentioned policy we messed up".
It comes a day after David Blunkett, Mr Straw's successor as Home secretary, warned British cities could face riots as an influx of Roma migrants creates "frictions" with local people.
The last Labour government predicted that only 13,000 would move to Britain from Poland and other eastern European countries after 2004.
However, more than one million arrived in one of the biggest waves of immigration seen in this country.
The English language is continually evolving. Just the other day I had to Google what on earth ‘twerking’ meant. This year the Oxford dictionary added the equivalent of one new word a week. If we struggle to keep up with our new lexicon, just imagine what it’s like for those who have only the most basic understanding of our language. Learning English is as enterprising as it is essential. That is why we have put £6 million into innovative programmes that will teach the joys of the English language.
Language is more than just the verbal act. It is knowing the difference between the green and red milk tops. It is knowing which bus will get you to work quickest. When English is your mother tongue, it’s easy to take it for granted what a gift it is. Have you ever tried out your rusty GCSE French in a little provincial French café? You pluck up the courage to order your croque monsieur in your best accent, only to feel scowled at by the impatient waiter, who has another six tourists to serve. If you’ve ever felt a tiny bit of that embarrassment, then you will understand what it’s like for immigrants in the UK.
Only 1.5% of reports alleging illegal immigration result in a person being removed from the UK, MPs have said.
The Home Affairs Committee also said the now-defunct UK Border Agency had a backlog of 432,029 immigration and asylum cases when it was scrapped at the end of March.
Its chairman, Labour MP Keith Vaz, urged the coalition to take "effective action" to amend a "poor record".
The government responded that it was "getting tough" on illegal immigration.
The committee looked at the allegations database set up by the UKBA to follow up tip-offs by the public. It replaced a system where allegations and removals were held separately.
It revealed that about 6% of claims had led to an investigation and 1.5% had resulted in removals.
Eleven immigrants left UK after seeing 'go home' van adverts
Eleven illegal migrants left the UK as a result of seeing vans with the message "go home or face arrest", the Home Office has claimed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2506888/Immigration-talk-race-riots-ministers-claim-havent-warned-STEPHEN-GLOVER.html
Anyone who relies on the BBC for news will probably be unaware that earlier this week a well-known politician uttered some of the most extraordinary remarks about immigration that have been made by a national figure in living memory.
But the politician who warned that ‘tensions’ between local people and Roma migrants could escalate into rioting unless action is taken was not from the far-Right, Ukip or even the Tory Party. No, these comments were made by David Blunkett, a former Labour Home Secretary and a very moderate man.
Ironically, in view of the fact that the BBC in London has virtually ignored the story, Mr Blunkett had originally confided his fears to BBC Sheffield, the city where he is an MP. He called on the Roma community in the Page Hall area of Sheffield to change aspects of their ‘behaviour’, such as congregating on the streets on summer evenings and dumping litter. These activities, he said, are ‘aggravating’ local people.
Britain’s attitude to immigration is ‘grotesque and hypocritical,’ claims Calais politician who says town is approaching Sangatte-style crisis
- Deputy mayor of Calais Philippe Mignonet made the remarks
- An estimated 400 migrants are currently living in dilapidated buildings or camping out in Calais
- Last month mayor Natacha Bouchart appealed to citizens to report new squats to the police
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/442169/Flood-of-immigrants-make-township-ghettos-out-of-Britain-s-seasides
Tory Paul Carter, who leads Kent County Council, says the rising number of migrants in towns from Clacton in Essex, to Margate in Kent and Eastbourne in East Sussex is putting huge pressure on health and other public services.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express Mr Carter added: “The pressure is growing in coastal communities. I think we need government to give us help in these townships in some wards.
“We are getting a concentration of vulnerable people of variable ethnicity creating a lot of pressures on public services of all different types.”
The council is currently preparing a report which will call on David Cameron to demand a radical approach to the problem in towns such as Margate, where up to 3,000 Romas have set up homes in cheap low quality private housing or been given council flats.
Mr Carter revealed: “We will ask the government to stop the inward migration of vulnerable and troubled families out of London or abroad into these communities so we can start to lift them and reverse the trend of potentially building bigger ghettoes.”
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