Immigration, again!

I wanted to quickly look at this issue again because I believe it is very important. In the last two weeks figures have been released that show nearly nine out of ten jobs created by Labour went to foreign workers. Figures released by the Office of National Statistics have shown that under Labour 2 million jobs were created, of those 1.8 million went to those classed as 'non-UK born'. Under Labour foreign-born workers nearly doubled from 7 per cent to 13 per cent.

Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think-tank said 'as long as foreign skills can be obtained "off the shelf", employers will have no incentive to train British workers'. I think this highlights a really big problem within our society, we have many young people who would love a job, but unfortunately it is easier for an employer to employ someone who is coming from abroad.

The facts speak for themselves, in 1997 there were just over 26 million people aged between 16-64 in employment. Of those 1,946,000 were foreign born, leaving 24,058,000 born in the UK. By the same period this year, the total in jobs was up more than two million, to 28,107,000. Of those 3,787,000 were born abroad, and 24,314,000 born in the UK. This means 88 per cent of the rise in employment was accounted for by foreign workers.

Immigration Minister Damien Green said 'These figures show just why the Government is introducing a limit on immigration, so that new jobs are available for UK workers'. Let's be honest here, this is a load of rubbish, firstly we cannot stop workers coming from the EU, and that is where the majority of foreign workers are coming from. Secondly, Gordon Brown introduced a points based system, but under his leadership foreign workers actually increased by about 20 per cent and foreign students by about 30 per cent.

Last week the EU announced a deal with India, this will allow Indian firms to transfer unlimited numbers of staff to the the UK without first offering the posts to British workers. So not only can we not control those who are coming to this country from the EU, not only can we not put British workers before those who come from within the EU, we will not be able to put British workers before those who come from India. This blows a massive whole in David Cameron's boast about controlling immigration.

Another thing. We are constantly being told by David Cameron that his Government will only allow those workers to come into the country that we need to fill skilled posts. This has been shown to be untrue as well, Home Office figures have shown that just one in four of the 18,780 'highly skilled' migrants allowed in last year managed to find a highly skilled job. He would argue that that was under Labour, but having seen how often he has acquiesced I cannot see this changing.

I know I have covered this subject before but until someone starts to tell the truth about this subject, until someone starts to do something about mass immigration, until someone starts to listen to the British people I will keep writing about it!!