Friday, December 24, 2004

UK Immigration - Conservatives' Views: 'Immigrants threaten British values'

ARE MIGRANTS A THREAT TO THE UK?

Following are are excerpts from a recent news article published on TimesOnline.

DAVID DAVIS gave warning yesterday that Britain’s traditional values were at risk from the scale of immigration into the country and promised substantial cuts if the Tories won power.

Mr Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, told the Conservative conference that Britain was already the most densely populated big country in Europe and the level of immigration was far too high. Immigrants could fill six new cities the size of Birmingham over the next three decades, he said, and pledged to take action “before it is too late”.

“A Conservative government will substantially cut immigration into Britain. Uncontrolled immigration endangers the values that we in Britain rightly treasure,” he said.

Within a month of taking office a new points-based system of immigration based on the Australian model would be introduced and an annual limit set below the current figure.

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