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Dear Sir/Madam
Where is your policy on immigration hidden? I was unable to find it within your manifesto.
liberal Democrat Manifesto Immigration Policy
firm but fair immigration system
Britain has always been an open, welcoming country, and thousands of businesses, schools and hospitals in many parts of the country rely on people who’ve come to live here from overseas. It would be wrong to try and end immigration completely but we have to manage migration so that it benefits Britain and is fair for everyone.
The immigration system is in chaos after decades of incompetent management. The Government has failed to plan properly for new migrants, making it harder for people to integrate. No-one has any idea how many people are here illegally, and there aren’t even exit checks at all ports and airports to ensure that people here on temporary visas go home on time.
We will create a fair system that works and promotes integration.
We will:
• Immediately reintroduce exit checks at all ports and airports.
• Secure Britain’s borders by giving a National Border Force police powers.
• Introduce a regional points-based system to ensure that migrants can work only where they are needed. We need to enforce any immigration system through rigorous checks on businesses and a crackdown on rogue employers who profit from illegal labour.
• Prioritise deportation efforts on criminals, people-traffickers and other high-priority cases. We will let law-abiding families earn citizenship. We will allow people who have been in Britain without the correct papers for ten years, but speak English, have a clean record and want to live here long-term to earn their citizenship. This route to citizenship will not apply to people arriving after 2010.
a safe haven for those fleeing persecution
Britain has a responsibility to welcome refugees fleeing wars and persecution around the world. Liberal Democrats will abide by Britain’s international obligations and restore confidence in the asylum system by making it firm and fair.
We will:
• Take responsibility for asylum away from the Home Office and give it to a wholly independent agency, as has been successful in Canada.
• Push for a co-ordinated EU-wide asylum system to ensure that the responsibility is fairly shared between member states.
• Allow asylum seekers to work, saving taxpayers’ money and allowing them the dignity of earning their living instead of having to depend on handouts.
• End the detention of children in immigration detention centres.
Alternative systems such as electronic tagging, stringent reporting requirements and residence restrictions can be used for adults in families considered high flight risks.
• End deportations of refugees to countries where they face persecution, imprisonment, torture or execution and end the detention of individuals for whom removal is not possible or imminent, except where there is a significant risk of absconding.
This is part of the 2010 manifesto under the section Your Community: https://general-election-2010.co.uk/liberal-democrat-party-manifesto-2010-general-election/liberal-democrat-manifesto-2010-your-community/
David
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In response to the statement about immigration, i agree. Although don’t you think that we have let it get too far? Aren’t we bombarded with asylum seekers as it is? Do you think that we would be within our right to send illegal immigrants back home if their reasons for being in our country is to only take advantage of our benefits?
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Can not find policy on immigration too? Publish so that we can make up our minds too.
with regards your inquiry i urge you to read the below link. you may then make up your own mind whether this is a real issue or one pushed by the political parties and mainstream media to satiate your arbitrary notion of nationhood.
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY…/KS-SF-07-110-EN.PDF –
My name is Matthew Fowler I am a 19 year old student with Albinisam and a visual impairment. Unfortuntaly I expirence alot of bullying torment because of this and I would like to know what the Liberal Democrats could do to imrpove the current situation that me and other poeple with disabiltys face on a regular basis.
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I would like to know at what age the Liberal Democrat party will be allowing people to draw their pension.
I had come to terms with 65 for women (to be introduced by Gordon Brown) – but now David Cameron says he will introduce a new policy whereby women will retire from the age of 66 and will bring the date forward to 2016.
To me this sounds totally unfair. It has gone from women retiring at 60 to 65 to 66.
I cannot find anything in the LD manifesto that relates to the age of people retiring.
JD
JD
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Can you clarify what it means by regional point system for immigration.Does this mean it will replace the point based system in Tier 1?
What about prohibition? Is this covered in Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2010 : Your Money Dealing With The Deficit.
I earn a fair amount.. But for the last ten years minimum, i have chosen not to drink all that much alcohol as it doesn’t agree with me.
Instead I spend a minimum of £80 per month on cannabis and have done for the last ten year (until I grew my own)…The pot smokers alone could clear the deficit in Five years… If we all put in £80 a month. There’s not a lot in my local town for me… Its rubbish loads of rubbish pubs, scrapping along on wet incomes. Drunkards breaking pint pots and bottles, causing my little dog injuries on an afternoon stroll.
All the parties seem to be making the same pledges about the old stuff… The first political party who stands up and say’s we’re going to legalise and control drugs. Deal with them from a Health aspect, make all drug dealers extinct!! Then taxes could be lower on fuel or!! Or make bio fuel out of hemp! It’s a modern world that needs a modern approach, draconian measures don’t work… I’m not a bad person for all the weed I smoke… I work hard, want a family, I avoid trouble and have worked all of my life, and I have never claimed the dole. But I mix with the riffraff and this current society and the laws that govern it… Make me a criminal… I’m not… I just like a smoke… and now at the age of 30. My lung capacity is tell me, you need to exercise! Don’t smoke in the morning, leave it to the evening… And guess what?? Common sense prevails.
Create an Industry (or take charge), an industry that will bloom and is completely natural.
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I should have read the manifesto from the Green Party first!
Obvious really :)
Vote Green!