Well after 5 years of blaming the Labour party for increasing immigration (much of it justified) and blaming Labour for the deficit (not justified), Call Me Dave promised to reduce net immigration to the "tens of thousands" no ifs nor buts and his determination to stick with austerity and reduce the deficit.
The result of all this anti-immigration stuff and austerity with hundreds of thousands of public sector workers sacked?
1. The net immigration to the UK in the past 12 months is higher than it was in 2010 when the Tories came to power and is as high as it ever has been as far as I am aware.
2 Boy George is currently borrowing more for the year to August than the previous year by ?800 million. So the overall deficit is increasing and therefore the overall debt.
Back to the drawing board eh lads?
Vote Tory for increased immigration and deficit
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Arginald Valleywater
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Re: Vote Tory for increased immigration and deficit
A quality piece of back peddling by DC today. Time to tell the EU to fuck off and close down the borders....
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Hardly "quality piece of back peddling". A complete embarrassment, yet again for Call Me Dave.
Now that he has back peddled from the cap on number of EU migrants, he has nowhere else to go other than reducing out of work and in work benefits for EU immigrants.
However he has what seems to me to be an insuperable problem
as far as I know the changes to out of work and in work benefits will require a rewriting of EU rules. You could have two 21 year olds doing the same job for 3 years, one British, the other Polish. If you are Polish you will not be able to claim tax credits. If you are British you will. I can't see Poland or any of the other EU countries agreeing to this because it invalidates the EU anti-discrimination laws.
His speech seems to be the same old nonsense that Cameron floated about a cap on the number of EU immigrants entering the UK.
Now that he has back peddled from the cap on number of EU migrants, he has nowhere else to go other than reducing out of work and in work benefits for EU immigrants.
However he has what seems to me to be an insuperable problem
as far as I know the changes to out of work and in work benefits will require a rewriting of EU rules. You could have two 21 year olds doing the same job for 3 years, one British, the other Polish. If you are Polish you will not be able to claim tax credits. If you are British you will. I can't see Poland or any of the other EU countries agreeing to this because it invalidates the EU anti-discrimination laws.
His speech seems to be the same old nonsense that Cameron floated about a cap on the number of EU immigrants entering the UK.