Thread: UKIP: UKIP calls for 5-year immigration freeze

Originally Posted by John in Scotland

There are big issues that need to be addressed with regard to mass migration - but things have not yet reached crisis point.

Many in London and the South East would disagree.

BBC NEWS | Politics | UKIP wanting immigration 'freeze'

UKIP wanting immigration 'freeze'

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) would halt all immigration to the UK for five years if it won a general election.
The proposal has been contained in a policy review, prepared ahead of the party's annual conference in London.
Leader Nigel Farage will tell delegates on Friday that public services cannot cope with growing numbers of migrants.
UKIP has now created 17 groups to consider its policies and said it would publish its ideas in full on a daily basis if an election was called.
Its main policy is a commitment to remove the UK from the European Union.
But Mr Farage is expected to say that migrants, particularly those arriving from Eastern Europe, have been placing too great a strain on public services.
For this reason, the five-year ban would be introduced, and this would stay in place until "proper controls" on people entering the country had been implemented.

'Arrest and removal'
UKIP would "put in place border controls so that all non-UK nationals who enter the UK can be registered and tracked on their entry and exit from the country".
"Anyone overstaying their visa will be subject to arrest and removal from the country and will incur a ban on further entry to the UK for a minimum of five years," the party added. UKIP believes that anybody who wishes to come to the UK must be able to speak fluent English and have educational qualifications. They must also demonstrate loyalty to the UK and be able to support themselves and their family without help from the taxpayer, it claims.

I was thinking about the immigration policy some more and looked at these two sections:

The party says work permits should continue to be issued to companies requiring employees to work in the UK throughout this moratorium period.

Work permits will only be granted to workers who have a job and accommodation waiting for them, and who can financially support themselves or who will be accommodated or financially supported by their employer.

It looks as though UKIP is still making it very easy for Polish workers to come over here as long as they have an attic to sleep in. Since UKIP doesn't propose any limits on the number of such workers to be allowed in, will this in fact have any impact at all? It might make it harder for people to come to Britain looking for casual work, but that can easily be circumvented by businesses importing the labour to contract out, or even just work agencies making the arrangements.

Let's hope that UKIP has some solid numbers in the policy document which will be launched during the conference.

ITV Teletext are reporting the UKIP call for immigration to the UK to be halted for five years (I notice that the europhile BBC's Ceefax service is not):

Teletext National News