Cameron accused of 'total failure' on immigration

BBC News ^ | 11/27/2014 | BBC

[Nextrush]

Cameron is putting on a political show for the cameras with a General Election due next May.

He’s making promises he won’t keep sucking in voters like the Republican do in this country with their conservative acting skills.

[Nextrush]

Because there isn’t another political party out there challenging the Republicans and Democrats and threatening their ability to hold power....

[Nextrush]

As Nigel Farage has pointed out, Cameron made promises in 2010 to cut immigration, but can’t because the UK is part of the EU and Cameron won’t get out of the EU.

UKIP wants to get the UK out of the EU and its rules that prevent immigration restrictions.

[kabar]

There will be. It is inevitable.

[kabar]

uh. no — the “immigration” that they are protesting about is immigration from the European Union.

They are protesting both. They can't stop EU immigration due to various agreements on the free flow of labor within the EU. The Tories have promised to lower immigration from non-EU countries, but that appears to be just a promise. In May, the Tories will pay a heavy price.

After three years of falling numbers, in the 12 months to June there was net migration of 168,000 from the rest of the world, an increase of 20% on the previous period.

In the same period there was a 10% increase in work-related visas granted to people from outside the European economic area - the majority of which were skilled workers.

So policies to curtail immigration from outside of Europe have not only failed to deliver the cuts that ministers hoped they would, the direction of travel has now reversed.

[ansel12]

What does that have to do with my post?