'Immigration' under New Labour.
New Labour pledged to control Immigration and Illegal Asylum Seelers

Immigration is Voters Biggest concern and Labour cannot be trusted on Immigration which they have secretly encouraged. You must remind everyone you meet of the facts about New Labour's incompetence and lack of honesty on immigration and how they and Blair have betrayed Britain.

New Labour, shortly after the 1997 election, secretly changed immigration policies to bring more and more people into Britain and were soon encouraging them in huge numbers:

• In 1998 this has jumped to 68,000 'permit holders' (foreigners allowed to work here and later able to apply for citizenship) but by 2002 Labour had virtually doubled this again to 120,000. On top of this :
• By 2002 Labour were granting 115,000 permanent settlement rights a year
• 540,000 non-european immigrants were granted permission to live in the UK by Labour in the 5 years to June 2004
• Between May and December 2004 a record 123,000 work permits had been issued by the Government; 20 times more people than Blair and Co had, in their public reassurances during an earlier immigration scandal, claimed would require these each year. The number Labour reassured was no more than 5-13,000 workers a year!!

New Labour and Tony Blair have misled and been less than honest about immigration.

• In April 2004 Blair told the British Public that he had retained control of Britain's borders for Britain when in fact he had just surrendered that control to the EU and Brussels. It was not until 2005 that Labour were forced to admit that.
  
  
• Only about 10% of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers have been sent out of the country by New Labour. The rest have 'disappeared' to live and work in the black economy illegally with little or no effort by Labour to have them found or removed.
  
  
• 123,000 work permits were isssued to foreign workers in just 6 months between May and December 2004 by the Government following their statements that at most 5 - 13,000 workers would require these each year !
  
  
• At February 2005 the number of Illegal or Failed Asylum seekers removed had fallen by 6% on the previous quarter.
  
  
• Identity Cards, which the government claims would help control illegal immigrants and terrorism, have been shown not to be able to do so. What the Government does not say is that the introduction of Identity Cards is actually to meet an EU directive.
  
  
• Blair and Labour keep saying that we need immigrants as we have a shortage of workers to do the low paid jobs. Labour also claim to have significantly reduced unemployment when the reduction in the number of unemployed has been strongly mirrored by the increase in people mvoing from unemployment to long term incapacity (sickness) benefit !
  
  
• The strain on Britain's economy and finances has now become so great that immigrants who settled here in the past are publicly saying there is no room for new immigrants.