Friday, January 9, 2015

Cameron and Immigration

In 2010 India took over from Poland as the country most migrants were leaving to move to the UK. More recently the bulk of immigrants are from China and Spain.

But the focus in Great Britain is migration within the EU, especially now that Albania, Turkey and Bosnia-Hercegovina are all currently attempting to join the EU.
Net migration to Britain increased to 260,000 last year, despite a Conservative pledge to reduce the total to just “tens of thousands”. Net migration from within the EU is now 75 per cent higher than when Mr. Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010.

The debate will be over the principle of "freedom of movement." That is "freedom of movement" within the EU.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party, has made clear that freedom of movement is not “an unqualified right, and we now need to allow it to operate on a more sustainable basis in the light of the experience of recent years”.

As part of the plans, EU migrants will not be able to claim out-of-work benefits under the Universal Credit system and will be removed from the UK if they do not find a job within six months.
The Conservatives also want to abolish the current system whereby EU migrants can bring family members from outside the bloc to the UK without any restrictions.
“We want EU jobseekers to have a job offer before they come here and to stop UK taxpayers having to support them if they don’t. EU jobseekers who don’t pay in will no longer get anything out. And those who do come will no longer be able to stay if they can’t find work.

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