24-08-2006, 04:10 PM
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The stable door is wide open and the horse has disappeared
http://www.ukip.org/ukip_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=2466
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23-08-2006
The Government, the Conservative Party and learned pundits talking about the immigration fiasco are being at best naive and at worst dishonest.
The simple truth is that the British Government can do nothing at all to halt the next wave of immigration from Romania and Bulgaria, according to Nigel Farage MEP, the UK Independence Party's leader in the European Parliament. "The membership of these countries is a done deal. The best we can hope for is that their membership of the EU is delayed for a year. But that is it. All the treaties have been signed, the European Parliament has agreed it and another 350,000 or so workers will be arriving in Britain" said Mr Farage.
"All this talk of quotas and delays is frankly rubbish. There is nothing this Government can do to stop people coming here to work. That's what Britain agreed to, as part of the EU.
"The Government and the Tories know this but they will not admit it to the public. The sad fact is that we have no control over our borders or over who comes here.
"There is only one solution. That is to leave the EU", added Mr Farage.
"I know we will be scorned for saying so but it is the truth. We were the only Party to vote against increasing the number of member states in 2004 and the only Party to vote against the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
We were the only Party that said that hundreds of thousands of workers would come to the UK at a time the Government was saying it would only be 13,000.
We were right then and we are right now".
"If the Government really wants to take action to ease the burden of immigration then they should start the job of deporting the half a million or so immigrants that are in this country illegally", said Mr Farage.
Notes:
Migrationwatch study on possible Bulgarian/Romanian immigration to the UK
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/Brie...d_Bulgaria.asp
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