at last............

[stokemaveric]

they are going to put a cap on immigration,enough is enough,it is going to get harder to get onto our island and about time to..as the recession gets worse jobs are becoming harder to get so why should immigrants get what jobs there actually are?..in fact lets go the whole way and start deporting a few who are not contributing to our society.....at last common sense is prevailing,until the do gooders intervene of course...........

[MrBen5]

The tightening of immigration only applies to european states.
It doesnt apply to muslims either.
Basically if you watched the news, they said that they wanted to cap it so that there were more jobs available for people here who want to work....

[stokemaveric]

basically.........that is what i am saying........

[Postdog]

Like this is gonna happen....they might say it will but it will be like all the other stuff, just papering over and saying the right things.

[jno]

then I look forward to the greedy and workshy British having to clean their own toilets, staff their own schools and health service... and of course demand more money for it than immigrants want. Let me know when you get tired of the cost of living shooting up!

[Kromovaracun]

I doubt it'll have much affect on cost of living, jno. They're capping immigration - not stopping it.

I don't really know how I feel about the idea, but my natural political instincts say it's a bad one (frankly, immigration is one of the most overblown political issues ever). I might gather my thoughts and come back.

[tigerlily11]

I won't be holding my breath over that one.
Pigs might fly and all that.

[123everton]

It'd have a huge affect on the Premier League.
I hope Stoke stuff Spurs today.

[Quinlad]

Kromo's right. It's massively overblown.

But yeah, keep the do-gooders out of it. Leave this to the do-badders.

[BillySugger]

If such jobs as careers or fruit pickers actually paid a decent wage there would be far less need for imigrants to come here to do them

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-106951 3/Migrants-arriving-overseas-brought-control-h ints-new-Immigration-Minister.html

Yes at last a minister talking sense, the new immigration minister, Phil Woolas should know what he is talking about since he is also the MP for Oldham East & Saddleworth.

Wise words also from Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch UK.

This could be a turning point. It is just possible that common sense is at last bursting into Government policy.

But this is a Government which has ducked the hard issues for ten years, so we need to see concrete proposals to bring immigration, and therefore the population of Britain, under control.

[Quinlad]

It's well worth checking the Migration Watch website.

http://www.bto.org/migwatch/text/info/what.htm #

It provides detailed data on the causes and volume of immigration - for which Sir Andrew should be applauded. Without statistical analysis like this, how can we have a proper debate?

Its review of 2002 is particularly fascinating.

"Migrants have the amazing ability to know when to leave their wintering grounds in Africa, exactly what triggers them to start migrating north is still poorly understood: internal rhythms, poor conditions in the local habitat and day length may all play a part. Weather plays an important role during migration and affects their timing of arrival in Britain and Ireland. 2002 was rather a strange year; there was the usual trickle of Wheatears, Sand Martins and Swallows in early March and then a southerly airflow coming from Iberia during the last week of March brought some migrants to our shores exceptionally early such as Whinchat and Swift (which typically arrive in mid-April) aswell as some European species �over-shooting� like Hoopoe, Alpine Swift and Black-eared Wheatear. Cool easterly and northeasterly winds coupled with �blocking� depressions over Europe slowed migration down during early April and migrants were generally thin on the ground. By mid-April, high pressure and soaring temperatures across Britain and Ireland and much of Europe allowed many migrants to flood in."

[Le Chat]

Won't happen. They couldn't organise a strip in a lap dancing club!

[The Sherman]

YeAAAHHHHH!!

GET THEM ALL OUT thats what i say!!!!


yeah lets start company by company.

lets get rid of all them bl00dy paci doctors that come over here and help our poor! - so our nhs will struggle for the nest 50 years replacing staff big deal!

then lets look at the farming trade! So what if no one is available to pick potatoes and berries -I hardly eat them anyway!!

ooh ooh what about all those bl00dy American Businessmen that come set up franchises over here lets get rid of them too, because when you label it immigration it of course includes all the australians, americans and pretty much everyone who wasn't born on this island. Ignorance is no problem when your dealing with all those asian scumballs that come over here and cure us!

I want this country White BRITISH only anglo saxon-celtic-roman descendency! IF they havent been here at least 1000 years lets chuck em all out

YEAHHHHHH!!!!

[trevt0m]

hey sherman thats the best idea ive heard in a long time this country is the way it is coz its not british anymore it will soon be a third world country with no money left because the non british are taking over get them all out so we can hold our heads up high and be proud to be british every british should vote bnp that will sort