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How the British Government encourages illegal
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'TAXPAYERS
are funding thousands of businesses around the world set
up by failed asylum seekers who were paid up to £4,000
to go home.'
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'They are now the proud
owners of businesses including hotels, factories, beauty
parlours and vineyards as far afield as Iran, Albania,
Colombia and Zimbabwe.' |
Express article 17 December
2007
PAID FOR BY YOUR TAXES: AN OSTRICH FARM IN IRAN AND AN
ALBANIAN VINEYARD
Monday December 17,2007
TAXPAYERS are funding
thousands of businesses around the world set up by failed asylum
seekers who were paid up to £4,000 to go home.
More than 23,000 migrants have pocketed £36million so far.
They are now the proud owners of businesses including hotels,
factories, beauty parlours and vineyards as far afield as Iran,
Albania, Colombia and Zimbabwe.
The immigrants, who had no
legal right to remain here, were given free flights, handed
£1,000 in cash at the airport and then paid a further £3,000 to
set up businesses in their homelands.
Critics yesterday condemned the handouts as “bribes”, and
claimed they would only attract more immigrants to this country.
Ministers say paying failed asylum seekers to leave is cheaper
than forcibly deporting them.
But Matthew Elliott of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said the scheme
was an insult to British citizens.
“Giving failed asylum seekers business grants smacks of
rewarding criminality and sends out completely the wrong message
to people contemplating illegal entry into the UK,” he said.
“The
policy will act as a honey trap for even more illegal migrants.
The unintended consequence of this policy will be to push up the
number of illegals, exacerbating the problem and increasing the
overall cost to taxpayers.”
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “Now the price of the
Government’s failure to secure our borders is all too clear.
Given their inability to deport illegal immigrants, they have
had to resort to bribing them to leave – with the taxpayer
picking up the bill.”+
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The EU method? Deny the electorates a right to
referenda if it appears they, our EU rulers, will
probably find the outcome unacceptable |
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'When
faced with this challenge, the resolve at the top of the
EU is that the will of the people must be ignored, thus
displaying the absolutist cast of mind which is at the
core of their sickness.'
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"Such scepticism is the
EU's own doing. The European idea, a noble concept which
arose from the ashes of war, has gone badly wrong,
victim of the Napoleonic ambitions of little men.' |
Belfast Telegraph article 14
December 2007
Brown facing ticking time bomb on Europe
Friday, December 14, 2007
By Eric Waugh
Gordon Brown got to Lisbon -
just. His complex choreography was carefully designed to convey
the message to the electorate that he was dragged there. No
wonder. At the last count (the EU's own), British support for UK
membership of the European Union was shown to have sunk to an
unimpressive 39%.
Such scepticism is the EU's
own doing. The European idea, a noble concept which arose from
the ashes of war, has gone badly wrong, victim of the Napoleonic
ambitions of little men. Their Lisbon treaty is so unpopular
that those signing it yesterday dared not ask their electorates
at home to vote on it.
The Irish will do so -
because, to Bertie Ahern's dismay, he finds that,
constitutionally, they are obliged to. Only last month, Nicolas
Sarkozy told a closed meeting of Euro MPs he could not win a
referendum in France, nor, he said, could Prime Minister Gordon
Brown in Great Britain. This is because the people are not ready
to abandon the nation state.
They accept the enlightened European vision of co-operative
endeavour: but to European Government, they firmly say 'No'.
When faced with this challenge, the resolve at the top of the EU
is that the will of the people must be ignored, thus displaying
the absolutist cast of mind which is at the core of their
sickness.
In the collision, the most sensitive victim is the UK. The
citizens of Athens may have invented democracy, but it was the
English who adapted it as a workable system in a modern
civilisation. In Britain the smooth evolution of that democracy
has not been interrupted for the best part of four centuries.
But such continuity is unknown elsewhere in the EU.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, is a former Secretary for
Agitation and Propaganda in Free German Youth, the young
communists' organisation in East Germany - and she remained an
activist in the Communist Party until the Berlin wall came down
in 1989. Italian democracy dates only from Mussolini's demise
and the end of the Second World War. The current complexion of
Italian society is indicated by the status of the mafia as the
nation's largest industry, the revenues from its gangsterism
representing 7% of Italy's GDP.
Democracy in Spain dates from shortly after the death of the
fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, and is a mere 30 years old.
Portugal's is only 10 years older. The nation where Mr Barroso,
the President of the EU Commission, was once prime minister,
suffered a coup by its army in 1926 and shortly thereafter was
ruled by the dictator, Antonio Salazar, who ruthlessly
suppressed all opposition and retained power until 1968. As for
France, when the Germans invaded in 1940, the Third Republic
collapsed and the Nazis found an almost embarrassing surfeit of
fellow-travellers among Vichy's fascists, willing to herd their
own fellow-citizens, crammed like cattle, into the trucks bound
for Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka. +
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British education unable to cope with the flood of
immigrants |
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'Members
of the highly respected National Association of
Headteachers will this week tell Parliament that the
issue is starting to change the culture of some schools.
Some heads said the issue was 'out of control'.'
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"There
is a feeling among some of our members that this is out
of control and unpredictable."
Mick Brookes,
general secretary of the NAHT. |
Observer Guardian article 25
November 2007
Teachers: help us cope with migrants
Schools under strain, say heads
'Sudden influx stretches resources'
Jamie Doward,
home affairs editor
Sunday November 25, 2007
The Observer
The debate over immigrant
children in Britain's schools was reignited this weekend after
the country's leading headteachers told The Observer that rising
numbers of foreign pupils are putting some schools near breaking
point because they do not have the resources to cope.
Members of the highly respected National
Association of Headteachers will this week tell Parliament that
the issue is starting to change the culture of some schools.
Some heads said the issue was 'out of control'.
While praising the ability
of the new pupils, many of them from eastern Europe, and
emphasising that they should be welcomed into schools,
headteachers are concerned they do not have the amount of money
needed to cope with the issue.
'There is a feeling among some of our members
that this is out of control and unpredictable,' said Mick
Brookes, general secretary of the NAHT. Brookes, who will give
evidence this week to a Parliamentary inquiry investigating the
impact of immigration on British society, added: 'Some schools
just don't know how many migrant children they will have to
admit.'
He said that while schools could absorb one or
two foreign pupils, some were struggling with the sudden large
increase in the numbers of children from overseas: 'If you get a
sudden influx not only will it strain or even break the
resources of the school, it will also change the culture of that
school.'
Clarissa Williams, head of Tolworth Girls'
School in Kingston upon Thames, south London, said she received
£1,300 a year from the government to cover the costs of teaching
English to foreign pupils but was having to spend £30,000 of her
own budget to keep pace.
'These children just appear from nowhere,'
Williams said. 'They turn up on your doorstep and if you have
space you have to make the necessary arrangements. It places a
significant additional strain on budgets.'
On Tuesday the association will tell the House
of Lords economic affairs committee that education budgets have
not kept pace with the increase in the number of pupils for whom
English is a second language, or not spoken at all, who have
entered Britain since the European Union
expanded three years ago.
The ethnic minority achievement grant, the
main funding stream for schools, has increased marginally from
around £160m to just under £180m since 2005, when countries from
the former eastern bloc joined the EU. But over the past three
years, hundreds of thousands more migrant children have entered
Britain's education system.+
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Britain, land of PC perfection and Government led
dysfunction |
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'The
loss of two computer discs containing personal
information about 25 million people is not something to
be pinned on half-witted junior employees...'
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'It
is symbolic of an ingrained dysfunction-ality on the
part of this Government.' |
Daily Mail article 21 November
2007
Stephen Glover Daily
Mail
A ruling class whose staggering incompetence is matched only
by its arrogance
00:19am 21st November 2007
Alistair Darling is quickly
turning out to be the most hapless - some would say the most
maladroit - Chancellor for many years.
On Monday he intimated to the Commons that billions of pounds of
government loans to Northern Rock might never be repaid.
Yesterday he stood in the same place to reveal
one of the biggest acts of administrative incompetence committed
by the British State in modern times.
The loss of two computer discs containing
personal information about 25 million people is not something to
be pinned on half-witted junior employees at HM Revenue and
Customs, as Mr Darling shamelessly tried to do yesterday.
It is symbolic of an
ingrained dysfunctionality on the part of this Government.
There exists between citizen and Government a precious contract.
We hand over personal details in the absolute assurance that
these will remain confidential. It is the same with our banks or
our employers.
Think how we would feel if they mislaid
private information of this sort that might enable others not
only to filch money from our bank accounts, but also to commit
identity fraud.
It is true there have been cases of banks
leaving sacks of old bank statements and such like, containing
private information, to be collected as rubbish, but these pale
into insignificance compared with the loss of two discs
containing personal details about nearly half the population of
this country.
This
is a monumental breach of trust; evidence of incompetence on an
epic scale.+
Full Daily Mail article
BBC News
Six more data discs 'are
missing'
BBC article
Mirror 26 November 2007
A dad got a letter of
apology from civil servants over the lost data fiasco - filled
with private information about another parent.
Mirror article
Telegraph
Alistair Darling is embroiled in a cover-up row
after Whitehall e-mails revealed that a senior civil servant was
involved in the blunders that led to the
lost data crisis
Full Telegraph article
Woman kept benefit discs 'for more than a year'
David Smith
Sunday December 2, 2007
Full Guardian story
BBC 02 December 2007
Timeline:
Child benefits records loss
Full BBC article
BBC -
Benefit data lapse 'disturbing'
Full BBC article
Times on line 03 December
2007
Websites sell secret bank
data and PINs
Full Times on line article
BBC 11 December 2007
Thousands of driver details
lost
The
Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland has lost the
personal details of 6,000 people.
Full BBC News item
Grantham Journal
Health staff data accidentally sent to firms
A union has claimed the
personal details of hundreds of its members' were accidentally
sent to four companies by their Merseyside health authority
employers.
Full Grantham Journal article
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Illegal to consider job applicants' standard of
English in England |
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Express article 23
November 2007
'Employers
will break race relations laws if they refuse to
consider foreigners for jobs, even if the candidates do
not speak English, the Home Office warned yesterday.'
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“Last week the Home Office was exposed as allowing 5,000
illegal immigrants to be employed in sensitive security
posts." Shadow Home Secretary David Davis |
NEW MIGRANT JOBS MADNESS
Friday November 23,2007
By Tom Whitehead
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Employers
will break race relations laws if they refuse to consider
foreigners for jobs, even if the candidates do not speak
English, the Home Office warned yesterday.
And any job applicant, including
British candidates, will be treated as a potential illegal
immigrant and have to prove they have a right to work in the UK.
The warnings came as ministers
announced that employers who hire illegal immigrants will face
£10,000 fines for every unauthorised worker.
Critics fear
that the penalties will hit small firms and families who employ
nannies and do not have the experience to spot fake documents.
The warnings were contained in
race relations guidance issued yesterday alongside the
Government’s new offensive to tackle illegal workers.
It comes two weeks after it
emerged that 5,000 illegal migrants had been cleared to work as
security guards.
The Home Office document said:
“Indirect discrimination means imposing a condition or
requirement which applies equally to everyone, but is harder for
people from particular racial groups to satisfy and which cannot
be justified.
“For
example, it would be discriminatory to ask for a very high
standard of English when the job does not require this, or to
reject an applicant who has an unfamiliar accent.”
Shane Brennan, spokesman for the Association of Convenience
Stores, said: “Being able to communicate with customers in
English is a vitally important requirement in business.”+
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Metro article 12 November 2007
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Cameron goes fishing for the women's vote |
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Comment
We
are evidently supposed to believe that juries in England
and Wales constantly acquit those guilty of rape.
If a low conviction rate in England and Wales is
indicative of guilty rapists walking free, it would
surely be more in keeping with the search for justice to
enquire why the prosecution service pursue such weak
cases, or why the prosecution service itself is so weak.
If ‘independent’ judges after assessing all the
circumstances persist in passing too lenient sentences,
then perhaps it’s judges who need a change of culture
not society.
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Comment
Perhaps the truth is Cameron is following the British
perspective of changing the law to allow easier
convictions. |
Metro article
Cameron to pledge tougher rape sentences
Monday,
November 12, 2007
David Cameron will pledge
tougher sentences for rapists today as he attacks the Government
for overseeing a "moral collapse" in society.
Average jail terms for those
found guilty of rape have fallen to less than seven years and
offenders increasingly think they can "get away with it", the
Tory leader is to claim.
He will unveil new research
commissioned by the party which suggests England and Wales have
the lowest conviction rate of any European country - at just
5.7%.
Speaking at the Conservative
Women's Organisation conference in central London today, Mr
Cameron is expected to say: "Studies have shown that as many as
one in two young men believe there are some circumstances when
it's okay to force a woman to have sex.
"To my mind, this is an
example of moral collapse."
Mr
Cameron will call for "widespread cultural change", and warn
that society has become increasingly "sexualised" over the past
decade - during which time treating women as sex objects has
become viewed as "cool".+
Full Metro article
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The British continue with their break up of England |
The
voters in the North East emphatically rejected
regionalisation. Now despite what the British said at
the time, the British government forges ahead with
combining England's so-called 'sub-regions' into City
Regions. This British scheme is being presented as the
only way to ensure regions benefit from 'rising levels
of national prosperity'.
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"As a Government, we believe
in giving people more say over the decisions which
affect them. That is a more democratic way of making
decisions and of course we abide by the people's
decision."
Prescott, British Deputy PM at the time. |
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears unveiled
thirteen sub-regions that are drawing up proposals to boost
jobs, transport, investment and housing through greater
co-operation today. The areas will potentially receive new
powers to collaborate in promoting prosperity and development as
part of the Government's drive to ensure that every region
benefits from rising national prosperity. They include four sub
regions from the North West - Greater Manchester: Rochdale,
Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. Liverpool City
Region: Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Wirral and
Halton.
Fylde Coast: Blackpool, Lancashire, Fylde and
Wyre.
Pennine Lancashire: Blackburn, Lancashire and
Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley.
Each area is producing their own plans to
tackle the key issues in their area rather than follow a
prescribed approach by central Government.
British Government release
Plans to create new 'city regions' in the North
West to boost jobs, transport, investment and housing have been
approved by the Government.
Communities secretary Hazel Blears
unveiled the plan to create new links between areas in four
sub-regions of the North West.
Greater Manchester, Rochdale,
Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan in a
sub-regional Multi Area Agreement (MAA).
Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St
Helens, Wirral and Halton will comprise another city region, as
will Blackburn, Lancashire and Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale,
Hyndburn and Ribble Valley and Blackpool, Lancashire, Fylde and
Wyre.
The four are
part of 13 such schemes unveiled to help boost economic
development and links between neighbouring urban areas linked by
major commuter routes.
North West
5 November 2004
The Government will not introduce the Regional
Assemblies Bill after the people of the North East rejected the
proposals in a referendum yesterday.
Speaking after the results were declared, the
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said that the Government had
made it clear that the issue was one for the people of the North
East.
Mr Prescott said:
"Last night people in the North East decided
that they do not want an elected assembly. They have had their
say."
The electorate have been voting in the last
three weeks on whether to have an elected regional assembly.
Nearly 48 per cent of people voted in the poll.
"As a Government, we believe in giving people
more say over the decisions which affect them. That is a more
democratic way of making decisions and of course we abide by the
people's decision."
He said the Government had already brought
economic stability, lower unemployment and lower inflation to
the North East.
"Regardless of this result, we will continue
to offer the best policies for the North East."
The Government will take stock of the proposed
referenda in the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber.+
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03 November
2007 BBC
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National Trust against British homes plan and
'destruction of the countryside' |
'Prime
Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to build three million
more homes by 2020 to tackle the housing crisis.'
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'But
the chairman of the National Trust will tell the
organisation's AGM later this would destroy the
countryside.' |
BBC article
National Trust against homes plan
The
National Trust is to set itself up in direct opposition to the
government's house-building programme.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
has pledged to build three million more homes by 2020 to tackle
the housing crisis.
But the chairman of the
National Trust will tell the organisation's AGM later this would
destroy the countryside.
Sir William Proby will suggest
the Trust intervenes in planning inquiries and buys greenfield
land to protect it from house building.
The government insists
green-belt land is safe.
It says the boom in house
building would take place on brownfield sites and areas owned by
the public sector.
Planning system
Sir William told BBC Radio 4's
Today programme: "We're not saying no development ever on the
greenbelt. Far from it.
"But what we are saying is that before we embark upon building
on this scale we need to think more carefully about the value of
the spaces we're going to lose because once these have gone,
it's gone forever. It's irrevocable."+
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02 November
2007 Express
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All new jobs given to foreign workers |
'The
total of migrant employees since 2003 has soared by
740,000, while the number of Britons in work has gone
into reverse and dropped by 120,000.'
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'This
means that foreign workers filled all the extra 620,000
jobs which were created during those four years.' |
Express
article
MIGRANTS TAKE ALL NEW JOBS IN BRITAIN
Friday November 2,2007
By
Tom Whitehead
Foreign workers have taken
every new job in Britain for the past four years, astonishing
figures show.
The total of migrant employees since 2003 has
soared by 740,000, while the number of Britons in work has gone
into reverse and dropped by 120,000. This means that foreign
workers filled all the extra 620,000 jobs which were created
during those four years.
The revelation is a severe
embarrassment for Gordon Brown and makes a mockery of his recent
pledge to create “British jobs for British workers”. The Prime
Minister’s discomfort deepened when an investigation was
launched into how white Britons are being left behind in the
housing queue.
The damaging figures emerged
just three days after ministers twice had to revise statistics
on the number of foreign workers and jobs created under Labour.
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday made the
Government’s third blunder of the week as she tried to shift the
blame for the first errors on to the Office for National
Statistics.
She referred to the body or
its figures as “independent” on four occasions – but it is a
department of the Treasury and answers to a minister.
She also angered many town
hall leaders when, referring to the impact of immigration, she
said: “There are lots of parts of Britain that are not populated
hardly at all. I think the sense that we are full indicates we
have absolutely no room left.”+
Full Express article
Teletext news
Suspected illegal immigrants
have been retaining clearance to work in sensitive jobs - even
after being banned from acting as security guards.
Full Teletext news item
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