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[h=1]Is this the future for Britain? German cities plead for help from Berlin as 'social peace' is threatened by large number of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants[/h]

• German cities facing 'significant costs' as a result of poverty migration
• Dortmund, Hanover, Duisburg, Berlin and Hamburg all struggling to cope
  
• Chaos in classrooms with native children being held back, report claims
• Roma families with ten children 'receiving payments for each from the state'
• Reports of Romanian crime gangs sending children and women out to steal
  

By Keith Gladdis
PUBLISHED:13:21 GMT, 5 February 2013| UPDATED:12:26 GMT, 6 February 2013

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Cities in Germany have warned that ‘social peace’ there is at risk due to an influx of economic migrants from Bulgaria and Romania.
In a stark warning to the UK, reports tell of an epidemic of illegal working, chaos in schools because so many children can’t speak German, and an alarming increase in organised crime since the migrants arrived.
Dortmund, Hanover, Berlin and Hamburg say they are struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in economic migration from the two countries since 2006.

A Roma community in Bulgaria. Both Bulgaria and Romania are relatively poor, rendering employment in the Germany and the UK attractive prospects


The rise is exacerbated by the euro crisis, which has forced Bulgarians and Romanians to seek a better life in their nearest big economy.

A report by the German Association of Cities says they face ‘significant costs as a result of this poverty migration’.
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They are demanding financial support from Chancellor Angela Merkel, telling her ‘the social balance and social peace is extremely endangered’.
It comes as worried councils in the UK appeal for help with an expected influx of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania when they are given free access to our jobs market from the start of next year.

Families cross the road in the Turkish Kottbusser Tor area of Berlin, Germany

Polish immigrant workers planting potatoes in Lower Saxony, Germany

Migration: Bulgarian nationals queuing up outside the British Embassy in Sofia for visa applications in 2006


Westminster City Council is already spending thousands buying return tickets for Romanian rough sleepers when they arrive at Victoria Coach station.
It has warned that more arrivals will put greater pressure on already overstretched schools and housing services.
[h=3]BENEFITS: HOW THEY COMPARE[/h]UK: Bulgarians and Romanians who come to Britain from January 1, 2014, will be eligible for most benefits if they have work, are self-employed or seeking a job, have an address and intend to stay.
They would be means tested, but could get: Jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit, working tax credits, incapacity benefit, disability living allowance, income support and child benefit.

Germany: Immigrants can claim child benefit until the child is 18, or 25 if still in education.
It is £160 per month for each of the first two children, £165 for the third and £187 for each subsequent one.
A scheme barring EU citizens from jobless benefits until they have worked in Germany for a year is being legally challenged.
Romania and Bulgaria: The only government welfare payments are child benefit, which is £3.50 per youngster per week in Bulgaria and £3.69 in Romania.


Councillor Nickie Aitken said: ‘We need some firm answers from the Government both on numbers and whether we can expect any extra help for bulging school rolls and housing services already squeezed to the maximum.’
Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 but under ‘transitional controls’, most low-skilled workers have continued to require permission to come to the UK.
From January 1, almost 30million Romanians and Bulgarians will be entitled to live and work freely in the UK. Ministers won’t put an estimate on how many will travel here but the campaign group Migrationwatch says it could be as many as 70,000 a year.
Officially, there are 42,000 Bulgarians in the UK, but unofficially it could be up to 80,000. There are also thought to be 93,000 Romanians already here.
In Germany there are more than 90,000 Bulgarians and 159,000 Romanians. They are not allowed to work legally until January 1, as in Britain. But they can stay under EU rules if they declare themselves to be ‘self-employed’.
However the report by the German cities says: ‘The Roma in particular end up in desolate conditions once they are here.’
Police claim Romanian gangs send children out each morning with instructions to steal. And in Munster new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria last year formed a tent city alongside a canal.

 

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[h=1]Britain's now the migrant magnet of Europe: 600,000 come here in one year... twice as many as go to France[/h]

• The highest total of migrants recorded came to live in Britain in 2010
• Britain has now overtaken Spain and Germany as top target for immigrants
• New wave expected from Romania and Bulgaria in 2014
  

By Steve Doughty
PUBLISHED:00:34 GMT, 7 February 2013| UPDATED:00:59 GMT, 7 February 2013

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Britain has become the biggest magnet for migrants in Europe, EU officials revealed yesterday.

The highest total recorded – 590,950 – came to live here in 2010, their figures showed. This intake was more than twice the 251,159 migrants who opted to go to France.

It means that this country has overtaken Spain and Germany, where levels fell sharply, as the top target for immigrants seeking jobs and a new home.

The rise in numbers coming here marks a historic immigration landmark and comes as a new wave of incomers from Romania and Bulgaria is expected in 2014.

Immigration: The highest total of migrants recorded - 590,950 - came to live in Britain in 2010, figures have revealed

Whitehall has declined to publish its estimates of how many will come then.

For decades, Germany has had higher immigration levels than Britain while Spain’s rates shot ahead ten years ago as its boom drew millions from Spanish-speaking Latin America.


French immigration dropped below British levels in the 1990s.
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But the latest analysis by Eurostat, the EU statistics arm, indicated that economic collapse in Spain and tighter controls in Germany have made Britain the main destination for migrants from Europe and elsewhere.

The comparisons cover 2010 but the UK is likely to have retained top place in the immigration table.

Latest figures show there were 536,000 long-term immigrants to Britain in the year to April 2012.

Whitehall has declined to publish its estimates of how many migrants will come from Romania and Bulgaria in 2014

The level is far ahead of likely totals for Spain and Germany, despite the efforts of the Coalition to cut the numbers of unskilled foreign workers.

Its limited success in this may be further highlighted next year when EU legislation allows Romanians and Bulgarians the unfettered right to live and work in Britain.

German cities facing less pressure from immigration than their British counterparts have already complained of the impact of migrants from the two Eastern European countries. Yesterday, the Mail reported that they have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel about ‘significant costs of poverty migration’ and a risk to ‘social peace’.

Think-tank Migrationwatch warned that restricting the impact of immigration here is going to be a major headache for ministers.

Its chairman, Sir Andrew Green, said: ‘These figures are yet another indicator showing that Labour lost control of immigration. Our mass immigration far exceeds that of all the other major countries in Europe.

‘The Government is making huge efforts to get the numbers under control but it is not going to be easy given that Britain has become the destination of choice in Europe.’

Immigration into Britain was running at just over 300,000 a year until rising under Labour in 1997.

Numbers passed 400,000 in 2003 and 500,000 in 2004 when the borders were opened to workers from Poland and eight other EU countries.

Germany, Spain and almost all other EU countries put curbs on Eastern European workers.

UK officials predicted that only 13,000 Poles would arrive but, in fact, more than a million did so and Polish is now this country’s second most common language.

German cities have already been warning Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured) of the impact of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania

Immigration peaked in 2010 and dropped to 566,000 in 2011. Full figures for 2012 have not yet been published.

After coming to power in 2010, the Coalition promised to cut net immigration to below 100,000 a year.

But ministers have struggled to reduce this statistic, which measures how migration increases the population after immigration and emigration have been counted.

‘The Government is making huge efforts to get the numbers under control but it is not going to be easy given that Britain has become the destination of choice in Europe’

- Sir Andrew Green, chairman of think-tank Migrationwatch

The figure fell from 252,000 in 2010 to 183,000 at the latest count.

However, it is still well above net migration in Germany, whose population swelled by 151,600 in 2010.

That year, Spain’s net immigration was just 62,200 as 400,000 quit its collapsing economy.
Eurostat said immigration restrictions had been a success across much of the EU. Limits focused on attracting specific migrants to combat skills shortages, based on language proficiency, work experience, education and age.

It added: ‘Significant resources have been mobilised to fight people smuggling and trafficking.’

The figures reveal how the dramatic fall in migration to Spain and Germany began in 2009 as the recession began to bite. In Germany, it fell from 682,000 in 2008 to 404,000 in 2010. In Spain, it fell from a peak of 958,000 in 2007 to 465,000 in 2010.

The impact of immigration to Britain was underlined by the 2011 census, which showed the population was 63.2million, half a million more than expected.

There were four million immigrants in a decade, whose arrival helped push the population of England and Wales up by 3.7 million.

 

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It is different, Dot. Wisely the PAP has imported many educated serfs from neighbouring basket case nations to boost domestic consumer spending and fatten corporate profits. Unlike the unwashed masses of unskilled labour surging into the wealthy European states, these migrants are cosmopolitan and usually have little trouble relating to and integrating with their host nations. But why integrate? Why settle down in an expensive city state hell bent to extract every extra ounce of value out of them while they are here, just as the regime treats its own citizens?

The educated migrant workforce in Singapore, they are no fools. They know what they are getting into. A short term work visa in a developed nation earning a multiple of what they can hope to get in their home country. A compelling proposition!

For the rest of us, sons and daughters of Singapore, we have to live with the consequence of competition over good jobs, competition over scarce resources like housing, education and open space. Those of us, and those of you unemployed, underemployed folks, your birthright of good jobs at reasonable wages have been robbed, plundered by the horde of barbarians when our knavish leaders wheeled in the Trojan Horse.

If our politicians do not mend the gates they themselves have demolished to bring in the Trojan Horse, the city will fall to foreign hands. Our sovereignty is in peril! It is the duty of every patriot to protect what is dear to us. If we need new leaders to save the city, so be it!

 

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[h=1]Romanians and Bulgarians to be told: UK's too cold for you in advertising campaign to try and deter them from coming to Britain[/h]

• At least 70,000 thought come to UK over the next five years
• Government considers plans to limit money new arrivals can claim
• Home Office wants to show migrants London's streets 'not paved with gold'
  
• New arrivals could damage Government plans slash immigration

By Tim Shipman, Deputy Political Editor
PUBLISHED:00:03 GMT, 28 January 2013| UPDATED:00:03 GMT, 28 January 2013

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Plans have been drawn up for an advertising campaign denouncing Britain as cold and wet to deter Romanians and Bulgarians from coming to the UK.

Ministers are working on ideas to prevent an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe when restrictions are lifted on citizens from the two countries moving to the EU next New Year's Day.

A public information campaign would warn those considering a move that they won't be able to cash in on state largesse – and that the weather is bad.

With a lifting of regulations on Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK the Government is considering a number of options to avoid the country's border being clogged with new migrants

Under proposals being examined in Downing Street, the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions, the new migrants – who are expected to number at least 70,000 over the next five years – would face tough restrictions on the benefits they could claim.

One option would see new arrivals deported after three months if they don't have a job. Another plan would require those arriving from Romania and Bulgaria to show they have the means to support themselves for six months.

The 'nuclear option' would be to declare an 'economic emergency' to defer arrivals – though government lawyers are nervous about the legality of such a move.


Once the plans to limit the amount of money new arrivals can claim are in place they are likely to form the heart of an advertising campaign later this year.
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A senior Government source told the Mail: 'By the time people are able to come here we would want to have something in place and we would want people considering coming here to know what they could expect.'

A minister said an advertising campaign was needed to 'correct the impression that the streets here are paved with gold'.

David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May are concerned new arrivals will wreck efforts to slash immigration – a key election pledge.

One of those involved in discussions said: 'Every single thing we've done on immigration risks being blown out of the water by this. Bettering Labour on immigration is one of the best cards we have.'

But despite the warnings of restrictions, agencies have sprung up in Romania and Bulgaria offering to arrange work in the UK.

Britain has a buoyant job market, in contrast to some EU nations, and access to welfare payments is easier than in Germany or France, which will be relaxing work restrictions at the same time.

One job agency in the Romanian capital Bucharest told undercover reporters it has hundreds registering for work in the UK and the waiting list is so long they are no longer accepting applications. While the minimum wage in the UK is £6.19 per hour, in Bulgaria it is just 73p and, in Romania, 79p.
The average weekly wage is £63.50 in Bulgaria and £86 in Romania. The only state benefit available in either country is child benefit, which is £3.50 per child per week in Bulgaria and £3.69 in Romania. In Britain, a single person can claim up to £71 a week in jobseekers' allowance.

Housing benefit varies depending on local authorities. Child benefit adds another £20.30 a week for the first child and £13.40 for each one after that.

Visitors from the European Economic Area who demonstrate they 'have or retain worker status may be able to claim income-based jobseekers' allowance, income support, housing benefit, council tax benefit, income-related employment and support allowance, and state pension credit.

 

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The British government has turned to an advertising campaign that highlights negative features in the UK, in an attempt to put off would-be immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania.


The idea potential migrants could be deterred by references to the downsides of British life, such as the bad weather and hazardous rain, emerged over the weekend.

The measure is reported to be among ideas being considered by UK officials looking for ways to curb arrivals from the two newest EU member states when temporary restrictions expire in December.

The Tory-led government is also seeking measures to deport anyone who failed to find work within three months of arriving or to show they could support themselves for six months.

This comes as Communities Secretary Eric Pickles admitted that the influx of immigrants would "cause problems" with services such as housing.

However, Pickles insisted it was not “reasonable” to assume that 300,000 immigrants would move to Britain, a figure suggested by some Tories based on migration levels after Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania acceded.

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[h=1]Immigration and Labour’s unforgivable betrayal of the British people[/h]
By Stephen Glover
PUBLISHED:23:52 GMT, 12 December 2012| UPDATED:08:49 GMT, 13 December 2012

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The 2011 census figures for England and Wales broadly confirm what we already knew. Since the previous census in 2001 there was an unprecedented surge in the number of immigrants coming to this country.
Nearly four million arrived in a very short space of time. There are now 7.5 million people living in England and Wales who were born abroad. In London, the transformation has been so rapid that less than half the population now describe themselves as white British.
It is possible that the official figures understate the case since illegal immigrants, of whom there are an unknown number, are hardly likely to want to fill in an official census form. In any event, something momentous, historic and irreversible has happened.

Since the previous census in 2001 there has been an unprecedented surge in the number of immigrants coming to this country. There are now 7.5 million people living in England and Wales who were born abroad

What are my personal feelings about this? When I think of the generally helpful and hard-working immigrants whom I encounter, and of my very nice immigrant friends, in some ways I feel good about it. But it hardly matters what I think, or even you.
Poll after poll over the past ten years has shown that most people (immigrants included) are worried about the speed and size of the influx. And yet no one in government — which in this context means the Labour Government, which allowed mass immigration — took a blind bit of notice.

This is the way I see it. We supposedly live in a democracy. That means we should have a say in the way our country develops. Of course, we are not all going to agree. But, in fact, immigration is one area in which most people do see eye to eye. They are in favour of it, but want it to be controlled.
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Obviously Labour did not control it, and the question is why? Was mass immigration a result of incompetence? Or was it planned? The 1997 Labour manifesto stated that ‘every country must have firm control over immigration and Britain is no exception’. Why didn’t Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do as they had promised?
There is patchy, though compelling evidence that Labour spoke with a forked tongue, and had a secret agenda. Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Mr Blair, Mr Brown and Jack Straw, has written that Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural country’.
Its chief motive may have been electoral. Migrants, and to a slightly lesser extent their descendants, are much more likely to vote Labour than for any other party. So, according to this theory, the Labour Party was furtively trying to increase its powerbase.

Promises: The 1997 Labour manifesto stated that 'every country must have firm control over immigration and Britain is no exception'. Why didn't Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do as they had promised?

It is an amazing suggestion if you think about it. A political party puts its own interests before the preferences of a majority of the population. Can this really be true? As far as I know, no Labour figure other than Mr Neather has ever dared suggest that it happened.
Other fragments of evidence include an official document from 2000 (released in 2010 under a Freedom of Information request) that makes clear immigration policy was partly driven by economic needs, but also by the Government’s ‘social objectives’ — a phrase that is repeatedly used.
Then there are the diaries of Chris Mullin, a former Labour minister, who in 2004 lamented the failure of the Government to tackle immigration abuses such as ‘the rackets that surround arranged marriages’ before noting that ‘at least 20 Labour seats depend on Asian votes’.
Existing proof of a conspiracy may be slender, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. This will be a job for future historians, who will doubtless have documents we haven’t seen. My strong suspicion is that electoral calculation partly explains Labour’s ‘open-door’ policy towards immigrants, though it is not possible to say to what degree.
Otherwise there was a general feeling that impeding immigration appeared mean-spirited and even racist. Besides, in those now distant boom years there was an almost unlimited demand for cheap labour. How much easier to let in energetic eastern Europeans than to cajole welfare-dependent members of the indigenous underclass into low-paid work.

Vocal: Back in 2004 former Labour minister Chris Mullin (pictured) lamented the failure of the Government to tackle immigration abuses

And never underplay the role of incompetence. It is not easy to restrict immigration, as this Government has discovered, though it is finally making some progress. From time to time Labour may have wished to stem the flow, but muddle-headedly or ineptly pulled the wrong levers.
Whatever the explanation, it is certain that Labour acted in a way that was contrary to the wishes of most of the population, whose concerns grew year by year as unchecked immigration, particularly in London and the South-East, put ever greater pressure on housing, land, schools, hospital care and other services.
This was a kind of betrayal — a betrayal of ordinary people by the ruling class. And also by the media class. For with one or two honourable exceptions such as the Mail, newspapers did not question government policy. As for the BBC, it treated moderate critics of mass immigration almost as though they were racist.
When during the 2005 general election the then Tory leader, Michael Howard, expressed misgivings about the high level of immigration — while emphasising that he was in no way a racist — he was habitually treated by the BBC as an extremist. I recall one interview by a sneering Jeremy Paxman, who attempted to paint him in the darkest colours.
Don’t take only my word for it. In July 2011 Mark Thompson, the then Director-General of the BBC, wrote in a magazine article that ‘there have been occasions when the BBC, like the rest of the UK media, was very reticent about talking about immigration’.
Isn’t this a shaming admission? Shouldn’t the BBC reflect the anxieties of decent, ordinary people? Mr Thompson declared in his piece that the Corporation has changed, but I doubt it really has.

For example, on Tuesday evening, BBC2’s Newsnight brought together four people to discuss the census figures. Only one expressed any reservations about the pace and magnitude of immigration, which he did in the most measured and civilised way.

Motives: Migrants, and to a slightly lesser extent their descendants, are much more likely to vote Labour than for any other party. So, according to this theory, the Labour Party was furtively trying to increase its powerbase

In London, only 45 per cent of the population now define themselves as white British. Two years ago, the distinguished Oxford demographer Professor David Coleman suggested that, if immigration continues on a similar scale, the white British population throughout the country will become the minority after about 2066.
Some will say this is not a bad thing. Indeed, when I despair at the lack of ambition of some indigenous British, I think so myself. Perhaps a new culture and a new national identity will be forged out of the many races that have flocked to our shores and, despite some curbs, will almost certainly continue to do so.
But be in no doubt that a historic change took place in the first decade of this century that will transform Britain for ever. Without the people being consulted, without any debate, without even the Labour government admitting what was going on, there was a quiet, yet seismic revolution. There can be no going back.
I believe Labour had a choice. I believe it could have controlled immigration, as it once said it wanted to do. I believe that is what most British people of every origin wanted.
Labour politicians behaved with monumental arrogance and presumptuousness, and with no regard for democracy. It was as though Britain was their country, not the country of the people who happen to live here.

 

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[h=1]Yes, immigration can bring huge benefits. But on this scale and at this speed, it's too much to cope with[/h]
By Douglas Murray
PUBLISHED:23:51 GMT, 11 December 2012| UPDATED:14:34 GMT, 14 December 2012

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There you have it. The newly released results of the last census have made it official.
Our country has been changed completely. Over the past decade alone, the number of immigrants to Britain has increased by three million.
Despite the reassurances and platitudes of our politicians over the years — that this was nothing to worry about — the consequences are set down in stark statistics for all to see.
The 2011 census shows that white British people are now a minority in the capital city, London, the first time this has happened in any major region in Britain.

Ethnicity: The 2011 census shows that while our population is ever-increasing, as a result of immigration, less than 90 per cent of the country is white - the first time this has happened in any major British region

For the first time, too, less than 90 per cent of the country is white, while the population is increasing in size at an unprecedented rate as a result of immigration.
Of course, it is vital to point out, as those of us critical of the immigration policies of successive governments always have done, that immigration is not in itself a bad thing. On the contrary, if conducted in a controlled manner, immigration brings huge benefits to the life of a country.

As so many people who have come to this country from around the world prove, immigration can provide an extraordinary fresh pool of ideas and talents.
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It produces high-fliers with the skills to flourish at the highest levels of the labour market, not least in our financial and industrial sectors.

It has furnished Britain with entrepreneurs and businessmen whose ingenuity and dedication are needed more than ever in these times of adversity and economic contraction.
The arrival in 1972 of Ugandan Asians fleeing the regime of Idi Amin, for example, created huge prosperity in the parts of Britain where they settled, and they went on to rise to the top in all walks of life.

The arrival in 1972 of Ugandan Asians fleeing the regime of Idi Amin (pictured) created huge prosperity in the parts of Britain they were settled

Immigration has also provided a wealth of people eager to do those jobs at the lower end of the spectrum which many people already in the country are too lazy, ill-disciplined or ill-trained to do themselves.
But the mass immigration that has been taking place in Britain over the past decade has dramatically changed the cultural make-up of this country. If immigration occurs gradually — as it did in Britain on and off for centuries — then immigrant communities feel the need to integrate. Over time they become essential, indeed defining, parts of the life of the country.
But immigration on the scale revealed in the new census is a recipe not for integration, but fracture. It spells the end of our unified national way of life.
With immigration continuing at this rate, the British way of life becomes simply one option in a set of lifestyle choices — something you might adopt if you care to, but only in the way you might take up yoga or swimming.
For countries to cohere and for people to feel any common bond or purpose, it is vital to have common points of cultural and historical reference.
The new census proves that the possibility of such cohesion in Britain is fast receding. The differences in the figures since the last census, in 2001, speak for themselves.
The number of people living in England and Wales who were born overseas has risen by nearly three million to 7.5m. In the capital, only 44.9 per cent of residents are now white and British.
The new religious make-up of the country — as reflected in the census — reiterates this. Nearly every religion other than our historic national religion is on the increase in Britain. Only Christianity sees itself in free-fall.
For this, the muddle-headed leaders of the Church of England must take their share of the blame.

Foreign-born: The number of people living in England and Wales who were born overseas has risen by nearly three million to 7.5m. In the capital, only 44.9 per cent of residents are now white and British

And it could hardly be more ironic — or, indeed tragic — that the publication of the new census comes just hours after the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, dismissed talk of the decline of Christianity in Britain as a ‘cliche’.
Since the 2001 census the number of people in Britain identifying themselves as Christian has dropped 13 percentage points, from 72 to 59 per cent. The number of Christians in Wales and England dropped by more than four million, with the number of Christians overall falling from 37 million to 33 million
But while Christianity has suffered this collapse, nearly all other religions, and Islam in particular, have experienced a vast growth-spurt, largely as a result of mass immigration.
Over the decade since the last census, the number of Muslims has nearly doubled, going from 1.5 million in 2001 to 2.7 million.
And though, of course, the majority of those Muslims will — like other immigrants — seek to integrate and become part of British society, with immigration happening at such an historic rate, the need to do so becomes optional.

Since the 2001 census, the number of people in Britain identifying themselves as Christian has dropped nearly 13 percentage points, with the number of Christians in Wales and England dropping by more than four million

Changes: The total population of England and Wales, according to the census, was 56.1 million, a 7 per cent increase on 2001 - and of that increase, 55 per cent is due to immigration

For example, the new census confirms that nearly three million people in England and Wales live in households where not one adult speaks English as their main language.
Over recent decades politicians of all parties have tried to silence and stop debate on immigration by either implying or stating openly that it is racist to discuss what was happening to our country.
But surely a cultural change of this magnitude should have been examined and debated at every level?
Only ten years ago, in 2002, Labour’s Home Secretary David Blunkett stood in the Commons and denounced scholarly discussion of immigration trends as ‘bordering on the fascist’.
The sheer cynicism of Labour’s determination to open the floodgates to mass immigration was laid bare in 2009 by Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair.
He suggested that the huge increases in the number of migrants was a politically-motivated attempt to radically change the country and ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’.

In 2002, Labour's Home Secretary David Blunkett stood in the Commons and denounced scholarly discussion of immigration trends as 'bordering on the fascist'

He added that Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to ‘open up the UK to mass immigration’ — although ministers were reluctant to discuss the plan for fear it would alienate their core working-class vote.
Well, now we can all see the fruits of their plan in the census.
For those of us who have tried to draw attention to the negative impact of mass immigration, this new census should be a moment of vindication. But it does not feel like that. There is no pleasure whatsoever to be gained from being proved right when you are so wishing that you will be proved wrong.
However, all those on the liberal Left who spent recent decades pooh-poohing concern about immigration or accused those of us who did mention it as unhinged obsessives can finally sit back and relax. They have done their job.
They have successfully lied to the people and treated our opinions and feelings with a contempt that explains to a large degree why faith in politicians is at such an all-time low.
Some years ago, in a debate with the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, I remember him telling me how proud he was about the proportion of Londoners who had been born outside of the UK. Then, as now, the same question went through my head. What is your optimum number?
Do you want everybody in London to have been born outside Britain? If so, where are those who are born-and-bred British meant to go?
The answer is nowhere.
The total population of England and Wales, according to the census, was 56.1 million, a 7 per cent increase on 2001 — and of that increase, 55 per cent is due to immigration.
Nick Boles, the housing minister, who insists we have to cover an area the size of Cornwall in new houses, admits that nearly half of them are needed to cater for immigrants.
The projections are that, by 2030, we will have more than 70 million people in this country, so that probably accounts for Devon as well.
The truth is that immigration has happened at such a rate that, far from augmenting and enhancing our national life as it did in days gone by, it has completely changed it.
You may — like so many of our politicians — feel joy that this change has been brought about. Or you may — as some of us do — feel sadness about it. Sadness that we were never asked about this change. Sadness that our concerns were never listened to.
And sadness at the realisation that it is now probably too late to do anything to prevent Britain from becoming so very different a country.
Douglas Murray is former head of The Centre For Social Cohesion.




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<<Vince Cable fears cutting immigrant numbers will be detrimental to businesses>>
Isn't this exactly what the PAP ministers are saying?

[h=1]The broken pledges of immigration: Coalition promised to cut net migration to under 100,000. Yesterday, it hit 252,000[/h]

• New figures show immigration is at second highest level ever
• Total of 590,000 immigrants arrived in first nine months of last year
• Immigrations minister says tough new rules are working
• Vince Cable fears cutting immigrant numbers will be detrimental to businesses

By Steve Doughty
PUBLISHED:21:24 GMT, 24 May 2012| UPDATED:06:39 GMT, 25 May 2012

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Immigration is at record highs despite Coalition promises to slash the number of arrivals.
Figures released yesterday show that net migration in the first nine months of last year stood at 252,000 – the second highest level ever.

The total, which is the number moving here less those going abroad, is higher than in the year before David Cameron took power.

Growing numbers: Immigration is at a near record high despite Government pledges to reduce the number of arrivals

Last night ministers pointed out that the number of work and student visas is falling and this is not yet reflected in the figures.

The 252,000 mark for net migration has been topped only once, when it reached 255,000 in the year to September 2010.


In the first nine months of last year, 590,000 long-term migrants arrived in Britain – a level that has remained steady since 2004, when Britain opened the doors to workers from Eastern Europe.
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Net migration was so high because only 338,000 left the country. This compares with figures of 400,000-plus before the financial crash.
Immigration minister Damian Green said future figures would reflect a much stricter visa regime.

‘Our tough new rules are now making a real difference with a record 62 per cent drop in student visas in the first quarter of 2012, and overall falls in work visas, family numbers and people settling,’ he added.

‘As these policies start to bite we are seeing an end to the years when net migration was consistently on the rise.

On the defensive: Immigration minister Damien Green, left, said tougher rules are having an impact on immigration numbers, while Home Secretary Theresa May, right, is preparing regulations to ensure that workers to UK return home after five years


But the hangover from the old system of weak controls means it is still too high and we will continue our programme of reforms to bring net migration down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands.’

But Sir Andrew Green of the MigrationWatch pressure group said: ‘You cannot expect to repair 15 years of mismanagement in 15 months, but it is worrying news that net migration is still running at a quarter of a million a year.

‘There is no sign of any reduction from the huge numbers that developed under Labour.

‘The problem is that non-EU migrants are simply not leaving. It is time the Lib Dems understood the extent of public concern, including among 75 per cent of their own supporters.
'The Coalition must now take tough measures to reduce this unacceptable scale of immigration.’

Home Secretary Theresa May is preparing regulations to say that workers who come to Britain from abroad must go home after five years unless they earn an above average salary, with the current suggested figure being £35,000.

Critical: Business Secretary Vince Cable says reducing immigrant numbers will have a detrimental effect on businesses

But Business Secretary Vince Cable is among those who oppose the curbs on the grounds they will affect businesses, and ministers have yet to say how they will force migrants home.

The Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning think-tank, said the Government had made no progress toward its target of net migration of less than 100,000.

Its spokesman Sarah Mulley said: ‘Net migration to the UK was unchanged at about 250,000 in the year to September 2011. The Government has found that it is very difficult to reduce immigration to the UK without imposing significant costs on the economy.

‘Recent changes to the student visa regime will deprive the UK education sector and wider economy of much-needed income, but will have only limited impact on long-term net migration because the vast majority of foreign students only remain in the UK temporarily.

‘The Government should exclude students from migration figures and count them only if they stay in the UK for the long term.’
Official population projections say that numbers in the country will hit 70million by 2027.

Critics of high immigration say that this is the level at which housing, energy, water, schools and transport come under unsustainable pressure.

If net migration continues at the 250,000 level the 70million figure will be reached much earlier.

The most common reason for coming to Britain is to study, and the estimates show that 250,000 student migrants arrived in the first nine months of last year, up from 245,000 in the previous year.

Student visas issued in the year to March 2012 fell by 16 per cent and are down 20 per cent since 2009.

 

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A few East Europeans landed here too. Not many, the folks here are not too bad, quite well adjusted, still acceptable. We should welcome them in place of crafty Malaysians. Too many of them around and if they don't intend to get citizenship, we might as well give them work passes instead.

 

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UK loses control over immigration
Sat Sep 1, 2012 10:4AM GMT

Nearly half a million immigrants came to Britain in 2011 at a rate of over 1,300 a day.

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Concerns have been raised in Britain over the number of immigrants flooding into the country after figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed nearly half a million immigrants poured into the UK last year.


The shocking figures showed that immigrants have come to Britain in 2011 at a rate of over 1,300 on a daily basis.

Campaigners raised great concerns that Britain has lost control over the number of immigrants entering the country and warned the UK government that it was on the verge of missing its target to slash net immigration to “tens of thousands” by 2015.

“Our public services, schools, hospitals and housing cannot support this kind of growth. It is the weakness and ignorance of successive Governments that have let it happen”, said Paul Nuttall, the United Kingdom Independence Party deputy leader.

“These figures show how the simple character of the country is being changed beyond recognition. The Government must become more serious about controlling immigration because these changes are happening without the say so of the people”, added Nuttall.

The report revealed that 487,000 of the 566,000 long-term immigrants entering the UK in 2011 did not hold British passports.

Sir Andrew Green, of campaign group MigrationWatch, stressed that the released figures were a disappointment and highlighted “the huge difficulty of getting immigration back under control after 13 years of chaos”.