Labour fuels war on asylum
February 6, 2005 by Ken
Filed under The Best of the Rest
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Labour fuels war on asylum:
“Immigrants’ rights to settle permanently in Britain will be drastically curbed as the government admits for the first time that the nation’s ‘hospitality’ has been tested by abuses of the immigration and asylum system.
In a move that will reignite the controversy over whether Labour and the Conservatives are both ‘playing the race card’ over immigration and asylum, the government will announce that permanent entry for immigrants will be blocked for all but skilled professionals.
The crackdown – which would even have excluded the nanny whose case led to the downfall of David Blunkett – came as a senior cabinet minister insisted that fears of refugees and migrants overstretching public services were ‘legitimate’. Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, said it was ‘unfair’ if people were ‘flouting the rules’”
Just three points on this news from Labour
1 How will this go down with the EU, unlike the Tory policy will a Labour government promise take this power back to Westminster?
2 Labour stealing policies again. Apart from removing our basic rights and aligning Britain with the EU don’t they have any of their own?
3 Unless they have the power to do this it is no more than empty electioneering.
