Unemployment and Immigration

UNEMPLOYMENT has soared to a 14-year high of nearly 2.4million, according to official figures released yesterday. They showed that 281,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in the three months to May.

It was the biggest quarterly rise on record – and business leaders warned it could get worse, with 3.2million out of work next year.

The figures also raised fresh concerns about the impact of mass immigration. They showed the number of migrants working in Britain is still rising. The number of people born overseas in employment was 3.81million in March – up 129,000 in a year.

Meanwhile Gordon and Alan Johnson can sleep at night knowing that immigration and unemployment are rising, but they are never likely to be white, poor and living on a sink estate in an inner city that doesn't resemble anything like the hometown they used to know.

Migrants received the thumbs-up to make a beeline for Britain yesterday from Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister refused to shut the door on our open borders policy, claiming immigration was great for Britain.

And he ruled out imposing any sort of cap to limit the UK’s exploding population.

His comments will fuel fears that Britain is storing up an immigration timebomb. He spelled out how Britain will keep welcoming migrants when he addressed senior MPs yesterday.

Mr Brown said we should draw on the skills and talents of people around the world. Pity he didn’t think of skills and talents when he ruined our schools and dumbed down our educational standards to make immigrants feel equal.

But officials predict the population will explode to 70 million within 20 years.

Mr Brown told the Commons Liasion Committee yesterday: Let’s get the balance right here.

"We want those people that come to our country to have a contribution they can make to our country". Trouble is, they don’t all make a contribution. There isn’t enough work for the existing population and this will make matters far worse.

He claimed new measures would reduce immigrant numbers, saying: The numbers coming into our country to work will be less this year as a result of the changes we have made.

Critics of Labour’s border controls said the remarks proved Government immigration policy was in chaos.

He added: I’m happy to live in a multicultural society.

Well, he and his family are not likely to be directly affected by it, are they?