Immigration Has “Cost Britain” Says Brown as 30 Foreign Criminals Released Every Month
Immigration has “cost” some parts of Britain as it has impacted on jobs, wages and even family ties, Gordon Brown said as news broke that at least 30 serious foreign criminals are released from the Dover detention centre each month.
The release statistics, obtained by a local newspaper in Dover using a Freedom of Information request, revealed how convicts are freed into Britain instead of being deported to their homelands.
Figures obtained for July 2009 show that 56 detainees left the Western Heights facility on temporary admission or bail. More than half of them had already been convicted on criminal charges in this country.
The Home Office refused to comply with the part of the FOI request to reveal exactly what the crimes were which these invaders had committed.
According to the local paper’s report, the Home Officer used data protection laws to turn the request, saying that the “rights” of the criminals would be infringed if that information became public knowledge.
At almost exactly the same time that the figures were released, Mr Brown made a speech in London in which he admitted that immigration had “undermined wages” and “affected job prospects for people’s children” amongst other things.
Mr Brown’s speech was clearly motivated by an attempt to halt the rise of the British National Party. Unfortunately for him, his natural capacity to lie about everything once again came to fore when he pledged to “reduce the number of occupations that are fully open to foreign workers.”
This would, Mr Brown said, help protect British workers. The lie is, of course, that Britain’s membership of the European Union makes it illegal to discriminate against any EU national seeking work in Britain.
Furthermore, by signing up to the Lisbon Treaty’s new superstate, control over Britain’s immigration and asylum policies will pass to Brussels.
It will therefore be impossible for Mr Brown or the Tories to determine who can and who cannot enter Britain without coming into conflict with the EU. As all the Westminster parties support the EU, such a clash is not going to happen, and Mr Brown knows this to be the truth.
In his reaction to Mr Brown’s speech, Migrationwatch think tank chairman Sir Andrew Green said that the Prime Minister “is still in deep denial about the population crisis which we now face.
“His government have brought three million immigrants to Britain and they will add another seven million to our population in the next 25 years.
“In this context the measures, largely re-announced, in his speech are trivial. This is totally unacceptable.”
