MattLFC.Just research the amount of Somali refugees and Vietnamese boat people who entered this country during Maggie Snatchers years in power and then check out the Nigerians entering here during John"the grey maggie puppet"Major's years in power.
Chris."Survived the tory years...just"
This argument has nothing at all to do with the nationality of people coming to this country. Arguing against nationalities is racist and this is NOT a racist argument. If you would like to check facts, the balance between immigration and emigration was at an all time low during the years you describe and actually was negative in 1992 and zero in 1993.
The official population went over 60 million in 2006, it was 62 million in 2009, although the National Office of statistics say there could be as many as 78 million people in the UK.
Blair’s government abolished the “Primary Purpose Rule” in 1997 encouraging an explosion in immigration allowing any British resident to bring into Britain a foreign bride married abroad.
Former Government advisors through the labour period have publicly stated that immigration was actively encouraged, especially through the years 2000 to 2008, as the new “Britons” were more likely to vote Labour and give the party a better stranglehold on the country.
Under the Labour Government, the UK is a signatory to the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which means that it has a responsibility under international law not to return or repatriate refugees to a place where they would face persecution. This is despite the fact they may be rapists or murderers themselves.
The most damning point of the UK’s asylum policy is that under the Dublin Convention, asylum seekers should apply for asylum in the first safe country they come to. In practise the majority asylum seekers and almost 100% of illegal asylum seekers, have travelled through several countries to arrive in Britain. The EU courts will uphold challenges by a country to an asylum seekers claim if one is made. This rarely happens to people arriving in Britain, even though the EU recognises that “asylum shopping” were the asylum seeker looks to settle in a preferred nation does happen.
Sorry to rant on but this makes me so mad. We are a small island nation and the infrastructure of the country, schools, hospitals, old peoples homes are creaking under the weight already. We cannot keep on accepting people forever.