Net migration figures make mockery of Cameron’s empty promises.
The latest all time high net migration figures make a complete mockery of
David Cameron’s empty promises to bring immigration down, said local UKIP MEP
Jonathan Arnott.
“These figures released by the Office for National Statistics show a
borderless Britain and demonstrate the impotence of our government in the face
of this constant tide of migration.
“As well as the abject failure to secure our borders from illegal
immigrants who pour in every day, we are powerless to limit those legitimately
coming from EU states while we remain tied to the EU.
“We now host eight million people born outside of the UK – 12.5% of the
UK population and rising.
“Our public services cope with more than a million illegal migrants who
have disappeared into the black economy. We have to provide schools and
healthcare for hundreds of thousands of children of migrants born here and we
are now the third most densely populated country in the EU after Malta and
Belgium,” said Mr Arnott, UKIP’s EU budget spokesman.
“Unless the Prime Minister successfully renegotiates the principle of
free movement the only way answer to this increasing problem is to leave the EU
as soon as possible.
“Immigration is now the biggest issue concerning the British public and
our traditional sympathies for refugees fleeing war torn countries are being
blunted by ‘migration fatigue’.
“If EU rules didn’t mean we have to take millions of economic migrants we
would be in a better position to offer more places to refugees from war torn
regions. In my view this means that EU migration rules are making Britain a less
generous country. That is something which we must reverse.”
Figures released by the ONS today show net migration to the UK reached
330,000 in the year to March.
