Headlines about labour shortages don’t give the full story about migration – it’s a complex picture, obscured by a lack of facts. But the statistics are clearly out, by several million. What’s gone wrong?
Listen to Home Secretary Priti Patel and other ministers and you might get the idea that the government is cracking down on all immigration, legal and illegal. But cheap labour is still being encouraged into Britain…
16 January 2021
This useful book analyses and criticises the anti-working class attitudes of all too many in the labour movement.
10 January 2021
The Royal College of Physicians has set out plans to double the number of medical school places, planning for Britain’s needs for the next ten years and beyond.
10 October 2020
It is unethical for health services to rely on imported workers, as they have done for too long. Workers can take responsibility by challenging international recruitment.
6 September 2020
The Office of National Statistics has just published the figure for net migration into the UK for the year up to March 2020. It is now back to the highest number seen in 2015, the year before the EU referendum.
Summer has seen the predicted surge in people trafficking across the Channel
24 May 2020
To go by the latest official figures on non-EU immigration, the government’s pledge take control of our borders is already worthless.
31 March 2020
In a marked change of attitude, the National Farmers Union has announced a new era of recruiting British workers for seasonal work.
6 August 2019
The Polish government wants graduates to return to Poland. More than half a million have left over the past 20 years. This is part of a wider problem affecting many countries.
The government’s Migration Advisory Committee is ploughing on with plans to denude countries that need their highly skilled workers more than we do rather than train our own here.
Shipping union Nautilus has hit out at a decision to extend an immigration waiver for offshore wind construction companies operating in British waters.
30 May 2019
The body responsible for educating and training the NHS workforce in England is still fixated on importing labour from abroad.
30 May 2019
The government appears to be ploughing on with plans to denude countries that need their highly skilled workers more than we do rather than train our own here.
A former top Home Office official discusses how to enforce immigration policy…
11 February 2019
Millions around the country are experiencing every day the consequences of a political system that has washed its hand of the people and handed control over to the European Union, the market, or both.
6 January 2019
People smuggling across the Channel is increasing. Tiny dinghies crossing busy shipping put lives at risk. It’s lucrative – crime bosses saying that it is more profitable than smuggling drugs.
The vicious treatment of the Windrush Britons – who arrived from the Caribbean as children from 1948 to 1971 – contrasts starkly with the position of EU nationals under the Brexit transition agreement.
Data from the Office for National Statistics published in October show the number of Romanians and Bulgarians resident in Britain soared by 79 per cent in the previous two years.
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
We cannot care for people without planning, and we should stop robbing other nations of skilled workers…
31 March 2016
One set of official statistics suggests that around 1.6 million EU citizens came to Britain between 2006 and 2014 – but another set suggests the figure could be a million higher.
26 February 2016
Referendums all over the place, borders going up. Is the EU starting to collapse?
Free movement? In the EU it just means freedom for employers to lower pay and avoid training…
25 February 2016
A ten-year EU “regneration” project has contributed to Mansfield ranking as one of the poorest towns in Britain.
29 September 2015
NATO governments are scheming to win support for intervening in Syria – using the refugees to create chaos in Europe and provide the excuse for an illegal war.
19 September 2015
Germany wants to dictate immigration policy to Europe – and it is causing chaos across the continent. On 13 September Merkel had to introduce temporary border controls.
9 September 2015
Capitalism is waging war against workers worldwide to wreck countries and uproot their peoples. We look at how the “migrant crisis” started.
