By Sir Andrew Green,
Chairman, Migration Watch UK
The Daily Telegraph, 10 February, 2010
I rubbed my eyes with disbelief when I saw an article by Andrew Neather, a former speech writer for Blair, Blunkett and Straw, saying that mass immigration “didn’t just happen: the deliberate policy of Ministers from late 2000 … was to open up the UK to mass immigration”.
At last the truth was out. The public have known for years that we were building problems for ourselves but somehow it wasn’t quite respectable to mention it in polite company.
All that is changing fast as people wake up to the fact that we are now on course for a population of 70 million in 20 years’ time.
The Labour years have already seen an extra three million immigrants in Britain. If you add subsequent children, you are looking at the equivalent of half the population of London. These are just the official figures. Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants range up to another one million.
How could this have happened in the face of growing public opposition? Was it a cock-up or a conspiracy?
The full article is on the Press Articles page of Migrationwatch web site.
