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Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:54 GMT 13:54 UK

Quite brave of Labour to come up with this now. The feeble Tories haven't dared touching this with a barge pole...

I am spEak You're bRanes, London

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:52 GMT 13:52 UK

Oh dear, you only need to look at all the contradictory comments on this HYS from the anti-immigration lobby to seen how urban myths on immigration are perpetuated. All sorts of wierd and wonderful statistics are bounded about 'prooving' immigrants are to blame for all our ills (NHS, Education, jobs etc).

If you search hard enough for a piece of 'evidence' that suits your own opinions you will find it, especially with the help of the internet...but it doesn't make it fact.

[Nic121]

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:52 GMT 13:52 UK

England and the western world have been taken advantage of by continually backing down from the loud, noisy, "politically correct" human rights extremists, always spouting off about what is right for the world, and if you disagree, you are either a racist or an idiot (so much for our right to free speech).
Many of the immigrants that have come to the west do not respect our freedoms and rights, and are the real racists. How come the "politically correct" never challenge them?

brent, St. Albert

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:51 GMT 13:51 UK

Well, it would seem that it hasn't been a problem at all right up to this very moment but now is all of a sudden.

It's great having GB as one's PM, always a good laugh every day !

Chris Chris

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:50 GMT 13:50 UK

Immigrants do not 'do the job that other won't do'. It's just that the pay system is completely topsy-turvy. If you want people to do undesirable work then you pay them accordingly and they will do it.

Stop paying people fantastically huge wages for relatively luxurious work and we'll become a nation like we used to be, proud of our work, our spirit and our culture.

Nowadays I'm just ashamed to be British.

[chiffington], Sutton, United Kingdom

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:50 GMT 13:50 UK

They have brought with them many ailments and illnesses which had been eradicated from Europe almost 50 years ago."
This sounds incredibly close to 1930's Nazi rhetoric. I thought this had been eradicated from Europe about 50 or 60 years ago.

Yes but it is true - Typhus, tuberculosis and diptheria are all too common these days in the mainstay of Europe and such illnesses only started appearing en masse during the last 10 years that is, during the period when immigration is at its highest.

Soend, Oslo

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:49 GMT 13:49 UK

immigration is not a problem... it's a symptom of the disease of poverty.. and these measure will only attend to immigration from outside the EU and as we all know the biggest migration ever has occurred from the former eastern block countries; from within the EU. so it will address nothing. If the government is really serious about addressing immigration it will stop turning foreign states (i.e Iraq and Afganistan) into failed states and people overseas won't feel the need to escape so strongly

Al Amin

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:49 GMT 13:49 UK

Very interesting to read the comments - I would say that over 80% are trying to write what they dare not say. That in itself proves the point that the people of real heritage have a sinking feeling about their country

robert lowe, St Petersburg, Russia

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:48 GMT 13:48 UK

What people seem to forget is that we are an island and that at some point we are going to run out of space and resources. Out culture is being diluted and anytime somebody raises this they are called racist. It may be too late now for the three main parties to start coming out of the state of denial about immigration. Its not alright were not all living together in perfect harmony and pretty soon the lid is going to below

[olafdablunt], Corfe Mullen

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:47 GMT 13:47 UK

The biggest mistake that Europe will possibly ever make will be to allow Turkey into the EU. If Turkey, which is not in Europe anyway neither geographically or culturally, is allowed into Europe and the EU, you can kiss Europe and a civilised one at that goodbye for ever. The next world war will start if Turkey is allowed to enter into Europe and the EU.Turkey will be the Achilles heel of Europe, but ministers, politicians and businessmen are all too busy about how they can get richer and fatter

Dr Albert Gavade, Paris, France

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:47 GMT 13:47 UK

Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted....a decade ago...

Steve, London

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:46 GMT 13:46 UK

If Gordon Brown wants to defeat the BNP he had better start copying their policies and get tougher on immigration and crime for starters.

Richard, London

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:46 GMT 13:46 UK

The result in Scotland where BNP almost beat the conservatives is food for thought. The question of immigration is to my mind brought 20 years too late. But there again Brown has been perfect in closing the door after the horse bolted over the horizon. Bringing this issue up is just a gimmick to get immigrant votes come election time. I am sure he would ask for prisoners to vote privided they ticked the labour box. Come on Brown - we know you by now.

robert lowe, St Petersburg, Russia

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:46 GMT 13:46 UK

i will never come to the UK! instead i am working hard so that Britons will one day queue to get a Visa to come to my country like i see so many unfortunate Africans waste a lot of time and money only to be turned away. China , Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai has made it , so will we!

kiprotich samoei, nairobi, Kenya

Added: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:45 GMT 13:45 UK

The only reason immigration should be stopped is because our little island is full and due to continuous immigration and thus the increase in our carbon footprint we will enjoy massive fines by the EU for not reducing our carbon emissions thus wiping out any economic benefits.

Inquisitor smith, Londinium Albion