Cameron accused of 'total failure' on immigration

BBC News ^ | 11/27/2014 | BBC

[Nextrush]

New figures show a "total failure" by David Cameron to reach his target of cutting migration to less than 100,000, says UKIP's Nigel Farage.

He told the BBC it had "never been a genuine pledge" because the UK's EU membership meant "we have a total open door to nearly half a billion people".

The prime minister's spokesman said immigration from outside the EU was down and more would be done.

But Labour said the PM had made a promise with "no idea" how to keep it.....

The Office of National Statistics said on Thursday that 583,000 people moved to the UK in the 12 months to June 2014-while 323,000 emigrated from the country.

It means net migration is higher than it was in the year to June 2010 when the coalition came into power.

Mr. Farage told the BBC the Conservatives had made a "dishonest promise" in their manifesto, at a time they are trying to "say immigration and Europe were two separate issues".

"It represents the total failure of what David Cameron said to the electorate in 2010," he told BBC News...

[Nextrush]

Cameron is putting on a political show for the cameras with a General Election due next May.

He’s making promises he won’t keep sucking in voters like the Republican do in this country with their conservative acting skills.

[Nextrush]

Because there isn’t another political party out there challenging the Republicans and Democrats and threatening their ability to hold power....

[Nextrush]

As Nigel Farage has pointed out, Cameron made promises in 2010 to cut immigration, but can’t because the UK is part of the EU and Cameron won’t get out of the EU.

UKIP wants to get the UK out of the EU and its rules that prevent immigration restrictions.

[kabar]

There will be. It is inevitable.

[kabar]

uh. no — the “immigration” that they are protesting about is immigration from the European Union.

They are protesting both. They can't stop EU immigration due to various agreements on the free flow of labor within the EU. The Tories have promised to lower immigration from non-EU countries, but that appears to be just a promise. In May, the Tories will pay a heavy price.

After three years of falling numbers, in the 12 months to June there was net migration of 168,000 from the rest of the world, an increase of 20% on the previous period.

In the same period there was a 10% increase in work-related visas granted to people from outside the European economic area - the majority of which were skilled workers.

So policies to curtail immigration from outside of Europe have not only failed to deliver the cuts that ministers hoped they would, the direction of travel has now reversed.

[ansel12]

What does that have to do with my post?