I think you’ll find that this was predicted: According to Romanians who have worked in Britain, many who exercise their right as EU citizens to enter the country simply disappear into the black economy. Others sidestep the regulations by seeking self-employed status or by securing a contract with a British firm. Daniela Marinescu, who runs [...]
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Sorry? Fresh doubts over the Government’s immigration figures emerged last night after new statistics showed that almost one million people from outside Europe have been given the right to work in Britain over the past three years. This is the one part of the immigration process that the Government can, in theory, control. And they [...]
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Well, sorta. John Kampfner is generally pretty good in this piece about immigration. Distinguishing between asylum and economic migration and so on. Except, except: In truth, nobody could have envisaged the scale of the influx. A decade or more of strong economic growth has been cause and the consequence of such a higher number of [...]
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Yes, as David Cameron says, let’s have a grown up debate on immigration. Most important that we do actually. Immigration is too high and must be reduced, David Cameron is to announce. In his first major speech on the issue, the Tory leader will challenge Gordon Brown to a "grown-up" debate. As has been noted [...]
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Is it too much to ask for factual accuracy in a newspaper? UnitedHealth is the largest healthcare corporation in the US, making billions of dollars a year out of cherry-picking patients and treatments, squeezing costs and restricting benefits to 70 million Americans forced to get by in the developed world’s only fully privatised health system. [...]
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No, really, she’s actually managed to make contact with the same planet the rest of us live on: No, Brown is much too savvy a politician; he’s been wary of going anywhere near this most difficult of public debates. Yet in a poll in the summer, voters put reducing immigration as the task they most [...]
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