Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP Leader, today described Immigration Minister Damian Green's recent speech as: "An interesting and significant statement of principles, but with some worrying gaps and thorny problems."
Farage said: "Though this addresses non-EU migration to the UK, there is a gaping hole in our borders left by our membership of the European Union. With the EU promoting increasing circles of visa-free travel from Ukraine, the Balkans and beyond, these plans do nothing to address that pressing and increasing problem.
On the detail, Farage questions how aspects of the plans would work: "With a wage cap of £31,000 on migration, one does have to question if he has thought through his dream of a 'premiership' of arts and science practitioners coming to Britain. In these fields young talent is normally not paid at that level, either in research or in the arts. The 'Premier League' model he refers to only works because it is the wealthiest league in the world, we cannot say the same in the sciences and the arts - or for that matter in other sports beyond football.
"So two cheers then for Mr Green's approach, but I will not be holding my breath about his ability to implement these plans. He will have massive opposition from the Labour and the Lib Dems to overcome, and that is before we even think about the actions of the European Court of Human Rights."
ukip
0
Worrying gaps in minister's immigration plan as EU 'migration' is not dealt with
Started by
Guthlac
, Feb 05 2012 06:40 AM
No replies to this topic
#1
Guthlac
-
- ASF Witan Member
-
- 10,239 posts
Honorary Member
- Ethnicity:Indigenous Ethnic English, The only English, The True English. Of Our Own, for Our Own
- Gender:Male
Posted 05 February 2012 - 06:40 AM
Sir Winston Churchill
"Never Give In"
"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it the third time — a tremendous whack."
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
The Ethnic English, The only English, The True English
