According to an official report released Thursday, immigration into Britain increased by 27% last year.
In fact, net immigration is currently twice Mr Cameron’s target goal of reducing immigration to “tens of thousands.” The results show that a net total of 201,000 EU citizens immigrated to the UK, as compared to the 158,000 immigrants last year.
The already strained relationship between the EU and Britain has been further weakened by these findings, with many people believing that immigration policy will not change unless Britain secedes from the EU.
In 2013, a total of 526,000 people moved to the UK and 314,000 left, which resulted in the net figure of 212,000 immigrants. This is an increase from the 177,000 immigrants in 2012.
The ONS report further shows that the total number of people coming into the UK increased 5%, with 43,000 more EU citizens and 11,000 fewer non-EU citizens arriving. According to the Office for National Statistics, 125,000 of those immigrants came to find work, up from 95,000 in 2012.
In an Express report, Alan Murad, Deputy Campaign Manager of ‘Get Britain Out’ warned:
‘These figures demonstrate that while we remain in the EU we are completely powerless to control immigration to Britain. Unless Britain leave the EU the Government will continue to have no say on the hundreds of thousands of migrants entering the UK from EU countries every year. This is putting enormous pressure on our public services, presents a real threat to British jobs and is a major risk to our economic recovery.’
UKIP leader Nigel Farage condemned David Cameron for “breaking a solemn promise to the British people to get net annual immigration down to the tens of thousands.” Mr. Farage further commented on immigration, which he called “one of the most important political issues,” saying that Mr Cameron “refuses to take back control of our borders in respect of more than 400 million people from more than two dozen countries on continental Europe.”
Mr Cameron recently “launched a full-blown attack” against Farage, saying that Farage is essentially an elite citizen who seeks to “‘destroy the Conservative party.'”
In addition to the changes mentioned above, there was a 150 percent increase in people coming from Romania and Bulgaria into the UK, even before work restrictions were lifted in January. The numbers increased from just 9,000 in 2012 to 23,000 in 2013. Approximately 70 percent of these immigrants came to find work.
Other increases came from countries like Poland (from 11,000 to 102,000), Italy (from 9,000 to 42,000), and Bulgaria (from 7,000 to 18,000).
Chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz said: “Controlling EU migration is impossible without reform. It is clear that the Government’s aim is unrealistic and unachievable. The Government should drop its target now.”
Interestingly, reports in The Telegraph and BBC News UK say that net migration remains unchanged at 212,000 per quarter, although that number is still twice that of the Government’s target of less than 100,000 immigrants a year.
However, later on in the BBC News article, the reporter mentions the same figures as the other articles: 201,000 EU citizens migrated to the UK as long-term citizens, a statistical increase of 43,000 over the previous year. How does net migration remain the same if it increased by 43,000 people? Apparently the “movements of other categories of people” cancelled this effect, causing the net migration numbers to remain unchanged.
Mr Cameron is now drawing up new immigration laws to counteract UKIP and ameliorate anger over this rise in EU immigrants moving to Britain.
Not even David Cameron can reduce the number of immigrants to Britain, as long as immigration laws in the EU remain unchanged.
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Leviticus 19:33-34
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. I think God was saying, It’s a round world last time he checked.
Amen. But the quid pro quo is that the stranger must accept the Lord as God and lawgiver. He may not come in and start subverting the body politic or campaigning for another god.
The Jews didn’t accept Egyptian gods when they sojourned in Egypt.
But they didn’t go around blowing the place up – until it was time for them to leave and Pharaoh refused to ‘let my people go’.
I’m sure you would agree that most of the strangers sojourning here do not blow the place up, neither do they campaign for false gods, which is unlikely to be very successful amongst the people of this land.
Of course they campaign for Allah, and indeed the majority won’t stand for it when push comes to shove, as it will within thirty years. That is why we are heading for some very unpleasant times. And it is why Christian men need to stand up for Jesus Christ now.
I see far fewer Muslim preachers than Christian preachers in the streets, and neither seems to make much impact on passers-by. I don’t know or know of anybody who has been converted to Islam .
In the cities multitudes of young people are converting to Islam. See https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/islam-growing-at-astronomical-rate-in-uk/
what happened in Fiji? the indigenous population was completely swamped by “immigrants” from the Indian sub continent. One could also cite the USA as another much bigger example. The indigenous North Americans now live in “reserves” (though not all) in not too good conditions. Where does one draw the line? Accept true refugees threatened by war or other persecution yes. Untramelled migration no! Unless one is happy to see ones heretage and culture disappear in a few generations ( including in the UK our Christian heretage although we are doing a good job of demolishing this ourselves without immgration)).
What does one do when the alien becomes a majority and forces his religion and culture on the indigenous people? Ask the indigenous North Americans. Ask people in parts of the UK where Islam now rules the streets.
The only way I can live with this is the fact I am a sojourner, this world is not my permanent home and i will pass through it on my journey to be with Jesus in heaven.
Culture and all divisive things will disappear. Galatians 3:28 : There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Fiji is rather a good example. Another is Malaya. When I was at school, it was always accepted that the population of Malaya was only partly Malays, but with a lot of Chinese. It can’t have just been like that, the Chinese must at some time have arrived as immigrants, but this was never mentioned. However, it was recognised that the Chinese were in some way more vigorous and enterprising, so that when Malaya was granted independence, the British government made some provisions in its constitution to protect the Malays.
Compared to us, both examples fail as analogies. The Chinese and the Indians came from old trading nations and were better educated than the native Malays and Fijians. We should really in this country manage to maintain ourselves in a position where we are not swamped by a few Bulgarians and Somalis. If this is happening, it is our fault for not operating our own civilisation to a proper standard.
However, in the end (as in the United States and Australia) it has to be recognised that a long-established group of immigrants are virtually indigenous, and could not be sent “home”. The Jutes who settled on the Isle of Wight are not going to be sent back to Jutland.