According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party have achieved the following in their time in power:
Why Labour?
The protection of our borders is fundamental to the future of our country. We are committed to building on the progress we have made to create a system in which people can have confidence, which protects the security of the United Kingdom, prevents abuse of our laws, and is fair to both legal migrants and the British public. Labour is delivering the biggest shake-up to our border protection and immigration system in decades; the new Australian-style points based system; ID cards for foreign nationals; a new border force and high-tech system for counting people in and out of the country are part of a new system fit for the 21st century; built to benefit Britain.
Britain has a long tradition of providing a safe haven to those in need. We are proud of this history and we will continue to provide a place of refuge for the oppressed and those legitimately seeking asylum and the security of our care. We are steadfast in our determination to tackle the horrendous crime of people-trafficking and will continue to work both at home and with our European partners to end this horrific crime that trades on human misery.
Key Achievements:
* Asylum applications are at their lowest level for 15 years. The fall has been dramatic from over 80,000 asylum claims in 2000 to around 23,400 in 2007. Asylum intake is now less than a third of the level it was when it peaked in 2002.
* In 2007, we removed an immigration offender on average, every 8 minutes.
* A single border force to guard our ports and airports, with new powers and new technology.
* We have tripled the number of staff who work on border control, and enforcement of Britain’s border controls now starts overseas. Since January 2008, we check everyone’s fingerprint before we issue a visa. So far we have enrolled over 1,000,000 people and have matched over 10,000 fingerprints in connection with previous immigration matters.
* A new Australian-style points based system to ensure only those economic migrants who have the skills our economy needs can come to work in the UK.
* Since February 2008 rogue employers face civil penalties of up to £10,000 for each illegal worker they employ. Those found to have knowingly hired illegal workers can incur an unlimited fine and be sent to prison.
* Introduced compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals who come here to work or study.
* Ratified the Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking, strengthening the UK’s ability to catch the criminals that exploit victims of trafficking and underlining our long-term commitment to tackle this horrific crime.
New Labour, your Britain:
Labour knows that we all want strong borders and a fair deal. That is why Labour is continuing to deliver the biggest changes to our immigration, citizenship and border security system for decades. Our changes include:
* New electronic border controls will be counting people in and out of the country by 2010
* In 2008 we activated powers to automatically deport foreign national rule-breakers, and we will expand our detention estate to lift the number of people we remove from Britain.
* We will introduce legislation to reform the immigration system and set out a new agenda of earned citizenship where the rights and responsibilities of becoming a British citizen have to be earned. This will ensure that only those who share our values can earn the right to stay by clearly spelling out the rights and obligations of legal immigrants to Britain, as well as the requirements for earning British citizenship – including learning English, paying tax and obeying the law.
* The new Migration Impacts Fund, that comes from an extra levy on new migrants as they enter the country, will support local services like health, police, and schools manage short-term pressures of migration.
* Enforcing strict penalties against immigrants or their employers if they break the rules, including the establishment of new partnerships between local authorities and enforcement agencies to gather intelligence, disrupt illegal activity and track down illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers.
Labour Party Asylum and Immigration Policy :http://www.labour.org.uk/asylum_immigration_policy
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on Labour’s Crime and Asylum and Immigration policies in the comments below?
The Migration Impact Fund is a joke!
Asylum Seekers and EU Nationals don’t pay when applying to stay in the UK. They pay £50 only on application of a British Passport.
All applicants pay £50 when applying for Nationality.
£50 is a small price to pay when you only have to work for 12 months and then claim benefits and live in social housing.
They only announced this in March 2009, I wonder why it took the Labour Government so long, is it because their open immigration was rumbled….?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-11-03e.295837.h
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“* In 2007, we removed an immigration offender on average, every 8 minutes.”
If that’s an accurate figure and it’s still the case, Labour will be removing over 100,000 illegal immigrants a year.
In March 2009 a study by the London School of Economics said the number of illegal immigrants in the UK lies somewhere between 524,000 and 947,000, with a “midpoint” figure of 725,000.
If accurate and no new illegal immigrants entered the UK it would therefore take the current government tactics about 7 years to remove them all. Realistically we’ll have more coming into the UK (how many a year?), so illegal immigration will always be a problem.
I wonder if an amnesty would be in order for SOME illegal immigrants?
Currently they don’t pay NI or taxes and so do not contribute to the services they use. There’s a good argument for bringing non-criminal illegal immigrants who can support themselves and their family into the tax system, since unless an illegal immigrant commits fraud they can’t claim benefits, so the majority must be working (I find it hard to believe they are ALL fiddling the system).
David
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David,
An illegal immigrant is called illegal because he is illegal.
That means he has committed an illegal act, and people who have committed illegal acts used to be called criminals, put on trial, and if guilty punished in some way.
You want to bend these rules and reward those who already show such disrespect for our laws? For why?
So you can be seen as supporting the Labout party, who caused all the problem in the first place.
You are one of the ‘insulated’ ones, and there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Vote BNP
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Are you suggesting when someone has broken the law, immigration law in this case, they should not be considered for a second chance?
People make mistakes, it’s part of the human condition.
David
Depends on the crime, rape and murder – no. I wouldn’t care where they were from I would happily drop them off at the nearest airport.
Shoplifting to feed their family, I can sympathise with that.
If you give someone hospitality and the chance to live in peace, you must be some kind of moron to abuse that by committing violent crime.
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If the majority of the 3/4 of a million illegal immigrants were fiddling the system it should be really easy to find them.
3 million unemployed, 3/4 of a million immigrants claiming fraudulently, therefore about 1 in 4 unemployed people are illegal immigrants, should be easy to round them all up when they sign on.
The reality is most illegal immigrants must be working as otherwise they’d starve to death as they can not claim benefits legally.
David
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Labour is good atleast it has not increased taxes to kill its own people in england,But tories would i think do that, Conservative is only for rich people,
Recession is Global Dillema and its getting fine with a time,Tories have no substantial plans for it,
Inernational Studengts who contribute £8.5 Billion to the UK economy, Tories are gonna block them with strict laws , who would come here infront of other ideal competitors like australia/canada and US,
Immigration is needed here but controlled,with out that UK cant go ahead with world, who would do that construction work/part time jobs etc.
Alot Pakistani or indian businesses would shut down becoz of low demand of their products.
Think about it.
Tories are no cure.
Labour is still better i belive.
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“Recession is Global Dillema and its getting fine with a time,Tories have no substantial plans for it”
The Labour Party have only suggested a law that says they should pay down half the countries deficit withing four years, they actually haven’t said how they intend to do that (so they have no real plan)
The Tories have actually said they will cut public services and other areas in order to actually pay some of the deficit off rather than just talking about it.
“Inernational Studengts who contribute £8.5 Billion to the UK economy, Tories are gonna block them with strict laws”
Labour virtually allows anyone to become a student without enough strict checks (open door) whilst the Tories plan to cap the numbers and make them pay a bond which wil ensure we have students who can actually afford to pay there way, and should they then over stay their visa’s etc they will effectively be paying to be found and removed themselves, in my opinion this is far stronger than anything Labour have planned.
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Labour are great if you’re on benefits, working for them or just simply wanting to arrive and take advantage of our generosity through our welfare, schools and healthcare.
I’m a great believer in market forces and people taking responsibility for themselves!
Sarah in the Desert
‘Labour are great if your’e on benefits’
Obviously you don’t know much about the New Deal programme. I give Labour credit for introducing minimum wage, but New Deal involves forcing claimants to go through hour after hour of pointless and soul destroying tasks and doing unpaid work which amounts to exploitation. If a claimant is late, even with a valid reason there are draconian measures. Bullying people into work is not the answer and you are deluded if you think it is. In Britain today unemployment is being criminalised.
As for people taking ‘responsibility for themselves’ do you really think claimants enjoy being vilified constantly and being treated as inferior? Many claimants do voluntary work and contribute to society. They just don’t happen to have a paid job. Of course Tory voters like you are too ignorant and self-righteous to bother acknowledging this. You prefer to tar an entire minority with the same brush. You are a bigot, plain and simple. I suggest you get yourself educated on these matters.
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wasnt gordon brown perfect today? if you express your opinion on imigration, you just fob them off as bigots ,shuts everyone up doesnt it.but he realy didnt mean to say ,the live microphone made him say it ,and the aliens took over his mind is probably the next line.resign now and at least show a bit of dignity
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copy and paste this link and see what the labour party has been doing for 10 years https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html
AT LAST! Gordon Brown reveals himself in all his two faced arrogance. If you dare to mention immigration you are automatically considered a bigot! I’m suprised he didn’t go the whole way and call that poor woman a racist or Nazi just for good measure. We have a man with these views as prime minister and we wonder why immigration is completely out of control! To compound matters instead of simply apologising but standing by his clearly expressed viewpoint, he went grovelling to her house, begging for forgiveness and came out claiming it was all a missunderstanding. How utterly pathetic and totally nauseating! If people opposed to immigration, who live in high immigration areas needed any further reasons to switch from Labour to the BNP, I don’t think they do now!
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i would like to know where he gets his figures from, he said to the woman that there is 1 million people come into the country and 1 million people have left?.no wonder david icke calls them shape shifting reptillions
‘You are a bigot, plain and simple. I suggest you get yourself educated on these matters’
Now Mr Brown, we’ve been through this. Masquerading under a different name still doesn’t make it ok to call people bigots.