Put cap on immigration say Brits

July 23, 2009

| Submit Comments | Comments (3) | Previous | Next

Eight of 10 Brits say they wants to see a cap on immigration, the government's own survey has revealed.

Despite ministers ruling out on a cap, a Home Office poll of attitude towards people coming into the country found overwhelming support for a 'strict limit' on immigration numbers.

A total of 81 per cent said they favoured a cap while only 13 per cent said they were against.

Earlier this month, Mr Johnson told MPs on the Home Affairs Committee that he did not "lie awake at night" worrying about the prospect of the population hitting 70 million.

Campaigners claim that millions of new arrivals could flood into Britain, forming 70 per cent of the nine million increases in the population, which they predict by 2028.

The survey of public attitudes for the UK Border Agency found sharp rises in numbers worried about the impact of immigration on jobs.

More than two-thirds (69 per cent) thought immigration was a big or fairly big problem.

A similar proportion (67 per cent) said they were fairly or very dissatisfied with government handling of immigration; and 64 per cent said immigration laws should be tougher.

Mr Johnson told the Home Office Committee he would not bring in a cap because it would harm the economy.

He said we should welcome immigrants coming to live and work here.

| Submit Comments | Comments (3) | Previous | Next

Showing comments 1 to 3 and replies | View All

Shamas (23/07/2009 at 16:28)

The Government and the local authorities should be tough on ethnic businesses displaying signs above their businesses in their own languages. When people on the " road " see eithnic signs it tells the prospective customer this business is only happy to serve people from their own ethnic background. This is nothing short of being racist, and should be outlawed and local authorities should makes sure such signs are removed and signs in this country's language is displaced, i.e ENGLISH. It makes good business sense.

Brock, Hulme (23/07/2009 at 16:54)

I think one of the main problems the british public has with imegration is probely the mainly south asian habit of importing more and more family members over the years.
We should be much more like america and make imirgrants who want to be british citizens be only british citizens and stop dual citizenship that would in part stop the funny situation of people living a compleatly south asian lifestyle their intire lifes in britain, it would also stop the constant first generation of people moving here and will make it much less atractive to imergrants who come here just to milk the system and infact have lots of assets back home, and the govorment should also run courses on respecting british culture such as not spitting in the street or pawing women ect these would stop a lot of problems with the natives and also stop our liberal culture from being such a shock.

Mr Sir (25/07/2009 at 12:04)

I think they should put a cap on benefits e.g. child benefit or even put a cap on the number of children they can have, e.g. if they have more than 2 children then the benefit is capped if they want anymore children then they will have to support them on their own I don’t see why I should have to pay to bring other peoples children up, I’m sure many would agree with me.

()

Report

News