February 8, 2010 - By BNP News

Unemployment in Britain has risen to around 2.4 million at the same time that 1.3 million immigrants have been granted National Insurance numbers to live and work here, new figures have revealed.

The official numbers, released by the Department for Work and Pensions, showed that 1,370,820 immigrants have been given National Insurance numbers over the last two years — which means that legal immigration is now accounting for at least 650,000 individuals per year.

A grand total of 4.1 million National Insurance numbers have been handed out to foreign workers since 2002.

At this rate, Britain’s population will top the much-debated 70 million figure well within ten years, as the immigrant reproduction rate is far higher than the native British birth rate.

The figures also make a mockery of the “balanced migration” nonsense being peddled by the old gang parties, as it will also not “stabilise” the population but in fact encourage the ethnic cleansing of the native British population.

National Insurance numbers are required by anyone wanting to work legally in Britain. They are also necessary for claiming welfare benefits and tax credits.

The latest figures show that just under half of the new NI number claimants are from Eastern Europe, but the majority are from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. According to the statistics, more than 400,000 people from those three regions came to Britain between July 2007 and June last year.

Other figures released earlier showed that one in 13 workers in jobs in Britain are non-UK citizens, a total of around 2.2 million. Employment-related grants of settlement rose by 63 percent to 60,770 in 2008 compared with 2007, and at least ten percent of the current population of Britain was not born in this country.

*Meanwhile, it has emerged that French authorities are playing “pass-the-parcel” with refugees and handing them to the UK, according to a charity worker across the English Channel.

Mr Dan Hodges, from “Refugee Action” said that France was “dodging its obligations” with the flood of asylum seekers.

In an article in a daily newspaper, the liberal Mr Hodges pointed out that under EU rules, asylum seekers should claim residence in the first member state that they come to.

There is therefore no justification for ‘asylum seekers’ to queue up to get into Britain, apart from the massive benefits they are given by the systems created by decades of Tory and Labour regimes.

“The French government are just not facing up to their obligations. At some level, they are unofficially encouraging them to go to the UK or elsewhere,” Mr Hodges said.

“This game of pass-the-parcel with the refugees of Europe is playing into the hands of the people smugglers, who have no interest ultimately in where these people end up. They keep them moving and that’s how they earn their commission.”

He said that Greece and Italy are also culprits in telling asylum seekers to move to other member states.