IMMIGRATION & EU

The reason there has been no blogging on this site for a couple of days is due to my visit to a different country, North Wales, to sort out my old mom who lives there and was due to have an eye operation. I am pleased to say her op went smoothly and it was a pleasure not having to pay to park my car in a hospital car park – unlike those of us who live across the border in England.

Although we all know that Wales, like Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of the United Kingdom, these days they are detaching themselves and aiming to become independent nations, although they have not yet realized they are nothing more than EU regions despite their delusions of nationhood.

Unlike traveling across normal borders, there are no barriers or passport checks as you drive along the A5 and into the land of my fathers, just a few road works and temporary traffic lights are the only things that slow your passage. It would also seem, according to the Daily Telegraph yesterday and Sir Andrew Green of Migration Watch, that for many immigrants coming into the UK it is about as easy as it was for me driving into North Wales in my old jalopy.

It has come to light that the Labour Government decided to have an open door policy on immigration, despite the fact that they knew this would be a sensitive matter for most of the electorate, including many immigrants who have settled in the UK and now worry about how many people one small island such as the UK can cope with as we head rapidly towards a total population of 70 million people. Everyone is left wondering how we can cope with this massive figure and how our infrastructure will be able to manage. How will be able to house such numbers, will our schools, hospitals, doctors, roads and public transport be able to handle so many? All are questions which come to mind.

So, if everyone is worried about such things, why was the Labour Government so eager to boost to population so rapidly and to such a large number? It seems the answers to that one is all down to Labour putting votes before the interests of the nation, according to Sir Andrew Green in the Telegraph. He reported research done by the Electoral Commission that “ethnic communities vote heavily in favour of Labour.” The fact that many people in the UK are becoming increasingly concerned by the pressure mass immigration has on the country and its resources comes way down the pecking order to Labour Party votes.

Another reason why Governments want mass immigration, other than to combat skill shortages, is that migrant population have no real ties to their new country in relation to its history or feeling of duty to that nation – they come here for a better standard of living and the benefits offered and who can blame them for that. Other than those things they will have little concern about sovereignty being handed over to the unelected in the EU or Parliamentary sovereignty, why should they? But to a Government which is intent to subsume the UK into a fully federated EU superstate then by diluting all opposition with the use of mass immigration this becomes a very handy tool.

Sadly, as much as the Tories or anyone else can jump up and down complaining about immigration into the UK, none will be able to tackle this issue as long as we remain in the EU as it now controls almost sixty per cent of all immigration and asylum. Because of the EU treaties and enlargement the people of Europe’s other 26 nation have as much right to live in the UK as a person born here – and no government willing to keep Britain shackled to the EU can do a damn thing about it.

The only way immigration and the number of the population can be tackled is for Britain to leave the EU and to take full control of the UK’s borders once again. Immigration should not be stopped as we will always need the talents and skills of others, but it should be controlled so it is of benefit to us and to allow us to keep a our population at manageable levels. Immigration and the EU do not go together, it is time we as a nation took control by voting UKIP.