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UK records record migration – but are the Tories jumping to the wrong conclusions?

Migration successes: these legal migrants were carrying out vital work in the UK because the UK needed them (the image is from 2016). Migrants are still needed here but it seems the Tories have their priorities wrong.

The Conservative government’s policy to reduce legal migration into the UK has failed dramatically, ONS figures show.

These figures estimate that net migration – the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving – was a record 745,000 last year.

Some – like ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman – have demanded new restrictions on the reasons people are allowed in:

But this would restrict the number of skilled people coming to work in the NHS, and deprive schools and universities of vital funding from foreign students, among other drawbacks that This Writer is probably not knowledgeable enough to see.

The reality, it seems, is not that migration is out of control – because businesses are screaming for people who are capable of carrying out skilled work for them, and are in fact finding their effectiveness restricted by the lack of these people.

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This is especially true when it comes to farming. Here’s a video clip by Professor Tim Wilson, explaining the situation:

And what are the Tories suggesting to solve the problem? Here’s Maximilien Robespierre:

So the solution is to import crops that can’t be raised economically – in direct contradiction of one of the main arguments for Brexit: that we could create goods more economically here than get them from abroad.

For This Writer, there’s only one conclusion: the Tories are changing their story to confuse us.

I don’t think there is even a hidden plan behind this; they’re just trying to cover up one blunder after another over the last seven years since the EU referendum, if not the whole 13 years since the Coalition government slithered into office in 2010.

Nothing these clowns are saying is making any sense at all.

We need a rational analysis of the kind of people the UK needs to bring in from abroad, that recommends the most economical ways of getting them. Without that, this “hit and hope” Tory shambles is going to keep getting it wrong and continue failing to hit its targets.


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Suella Braverman’s ‘hurricane of migration’ is fuelled by Tory arms sales abroad

Suella Braverman: she’s quick to fearmonger about the number of people coming to the UK from abroad – but less eager to mention the fact that her government is responsible for it.

Suella Braverman grabbed a lot of headlines with her Tory conference speech threatening a “hurricane of migrants” coming to the UK.

Here’s the relevant segment:

She said, “the future could bring millions of migrants to our shores – uncontrolled and unmanageable unless the government they elect next year acts decisively to stop that happening.”

Why wait until next year? The Tory government could stop it right now – by stopping this:

The image above, I’m told, is of arms that UK manufacturers and dealers ship off to repressive foreign regimes in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Ukraine is another area of concern.

They get to send these weapons abroad because the government – which is currently run by Tories including Suella Braverman – issues what are known as Single Issue Export Licences (SIELs) allowing them to do so.

In 2022, the value of the arms exported doubled to £8.5 billion – the highest level since records began. And the highest number of exports went to these repressive regimes that have poor human rights records.

The figures are from the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which has claimed that “the UK is complicit in fuelling conflict around the world”.

It is this kind of conflict that displaces people. And then some of them come to the UK. You can read further details here.

It seems to This Writer that at least part of the illegal migration problem can be solved right here, in Whitehall – simply by scaling back the amount of weaponry UK businesses send abroad.

Ah, but that would be bad for corporate profits, wouldn’t it? So it seems that, yet again, money is worth more than life to the Tories…

And if they get a divisive, headline-grabbing controversy out of it, they seem to think it is a bonus.

Remember that, next time you hear Braverman blathering about a “hurricane” of migrants totalling “millions”: she and her government are responsible for it.


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Formal complaint lodged against Suella Braverman over hate speech

Someone has called out Home Secretary Suella Braverman over her “inflammatory language” against British Pakistani men and people who cross the Channel in small boats to seek asylum here.

Professor Tim Wilson has details:

Braverman was scheduled to address the National Conservative conference on the need to cut migration.

It’s a match made in heaven: a xenophobe preaching race hate to the Nat-Cs.


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Another Tory law Keir Starmer won’t repeal: the Illegal Migration Bill

‘Stop the boats’ says Braverman: Keir Starmer is apparently joining in the chant.

Would you like to know why Suella Braverman’s Illegal Migration Bill is breezing through the House of Lords, despite strong objections from figures like the Archbishop of Canterbury?

The legislation cleared its first hurdle in the Lords after a Liberal Democrat bid to block it was rejected by 179 votes to 76, majority 103.

The reason is simple: Keir Starmer ordered Labour peers to abstain on the vote because it would only delay, not stop, the Bill’s enactment. Worse still – he reckons it doesn’t affect his own migration plans:

So this former Director of Public Prosecutions, who is aware of the UK’s international human rights responsibilities as a requirement of his former career as a then-Queen’s Counsel, doesn’t think it is worthwhile to stop a law that tramples over those rights for as long as possible.

And his excuse is that the Tories will use a power to push it through without amendment if any effort is made to stop it.

It’s a cop-out, isn’t it?

Wouldn’t we be closer to the truth if we assume he wants this law to be passed?

Braverman has appealed to the Lords – in print – to let her horrorshow of a Bill pass without a murmur because it is “the will of the people”, despite the fact that only a minority of the population has indicated even the slightest approval…

… and she has demonstrated her lack of confidence in her own Bill by refusing to attend a joint committee that is required to scrutinise itL

She’s running scared, and with good reason:

Even the Archibishop of Canterbury has made a rare intervention, berating the Tory government for bringing forward a Bill that has no sense of the “global nature of the challenge”, ignores that “migration must be engaged with at source as well as in the Channel”.

He said: “It is morally unacceptable and politically impractical.”

He pointed out that, after all their jabbering about dealing with “criminal gangs” who they say exploit the people trying to reach the UK to claim asylum, there is no measure in the Bill for actually stopping them.

And he said safe, legal routes for people to claim asylum must be put into place.

Those are all good points – especially the practical matters of handling criminal gangs and creating safe, legal routes to claim asylum.

But Keir Starmer doesn’t have anything to say about them. He wants the Tory law to be passed as it is. We need to ask why.


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Human rights are universal but the Tory government wants to choose who gets them

Channel “migrants”: they have every right to come to the UK to make their claim, according to internationally-recognised convention and law. They don’t have to settle in the first “safe” country (whatever that means) as some Tory ministers would have you believe.

As the Tory government seems keen to keep pushing its propaganda – like the false claim that asylum-seekers should settle in the first “safe” country they reach – let’s have a reminder of the facts.

Here’s the ever-reliable Peter Stefanovic:


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Illegal Migration Bill returns to Parliament – and Braverman badmouths migrants AGAIN

Suella Braverman: this barrister seems to have a highly tenuous grasp on the difference between what is legal and what isn’t.

Suella Braverman went straight back to her ‘1930s Germany’ rhetoric when she reintroduced her Illegal – and that’s exactly the right word for it! – Migration Bill to Parliament.

She claimed she had been the subject of “grotesque slurs” just for saying “simple truths about the impact of unlimited and illegal migration” – but failed to clarify that the amount of illegal migration into the UK has skyrocketed because Conservative government policy allowed it.

She added that she would not be put off by “out of touch lefties”. Was this a reference to the

activist blob of left wing lawyers, civil servants and the Labour Party

who she (allegedly) claimed had blocked the Tories from stopping illegal migration without changing their laws in an email for which her part chairman, Greg Hands, has been forced to apologise?

Claims that government policies are bigoted are “irresponsible”, she said. In the middle of that comment, she added that these policies are backed by the majority of British people. Are they? Are they really? Do these people know that it is Tory government policies that have created the explosion of illegal migration into the UK? Do they know that the last Labour government was able to send back more illegal migrants in a year than the Tories are complaining about now? Do they know that the reason this can’t happen today is that Boris Johnson deliberately made sure there was no “returns” agreement with the European Union in his Brexit deal?

She returned to her tactic of “othering” the Channel migrants with this sickening slur:

That’s ‘1930s Germany’ rhetoric, right there.

She falsely claimed that Opposition MPs don’t have a plan to stop small boat crossings – and that in practise they favour open borders.

The obvious flaw in that is the fact that the last Labour government sent back more illegal migrants in a single year than the Tories are complaining about receiving now.

Here’s part of what Braverman said:

Just for information, Labour – at least – does have a plan to end Channel migration. Here it is:

Braverman also mentioned her “world-leading” agreement to house a few hundred illegal migrants in Rwanda (out of more than 46,000 this year, so far). Here’s what she said:

And they would be quite right to do so. It would not even scratch the surface of the problem.

Indeed, it might even endanger some of the people sent there.

But when the SNP’s Joanna Cherry said gay and trans people were not protected by anti-discrimination laws in Rwanda and asked Braverman if she thought it was a safe country, scuttled to hide behind a court judgment that may not be entirely relevant. Saying the Rwanda deal had been approved by the courts is hardly saying gay and trans people are safe.

Perhaps Braverman has a special hate in her heart for such people?

Some might say, at least she has promised not to detain and remove unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. But the fact is that they would go to local authorities for care, and many of them would subsequently disappear into a life of – well, who knows? Slavery, possibly. So it may be argued that Braverman has a special hate in her heart for them, as well.

Underpinning all of this is the possibility that the Bill is illegal under international human rights law.

Labour’s Clive Lewis tried to torpedo the debate before it started, by pointing this out – along with the possible threat to our own human rights that this Tory law exemplifies:

Well, Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans might not be able to rule on this but we have other sources on which to draw.

Here’s Peter Stefanovic:

So the Illegal Migration Bill is itself illegal; it discriminates against anybody coming into the UK by routes that the Tory government has criminalised, and may put unaccompanied children, gay and trans people in immediate danger.

And the Conservatives used their massive Parliamentary majority – given them at the 2019 general election – to defeat an attempt to block the bill.

It will therefore proceed through Parliament as though it has every right to do so – which it hasn’t.


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Labour leader Keir Starmer backpedals over GaryGate (VIDEO ARTICLE)

After days in which Labour politicians have lambasted BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker for publishing entirely reasonable comments about the Tory Illegal Migration Bill on Twitter, party leader Keir Starmer has changed course radically.

Mr Lineker said the rhetoric used by Home Secretary Suella Braverman was similar to that of Germany in the 1930s.

He has since been shown to be right.

There is no stipulation in his BBC contract to suggest that he, as a sports presenter, should not be allowed to discuss politics on his own personal Twitter feed.

But Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had this to say about it when she was interviewed on LBC, after the row initially broke out…

Contrast her words with Keir Starmer’s comment, after the BBC suspended Mr Lineker from presenting Match of the Day, prompting a huge walkout by his fellow sports presenters that critically hampered the Corporation’s sports coverage and brought its decision-making into question.

This was just bandwagon-jumping by Starmer.

He saw an opportunity to hammer the BBC for pandering to Conservatives and he took it – never mind the fact that he was speaking in opposition to his own shadow ministers.

With acknowledgement of the video work by:

Jonathan Pie – https://youtu.be/jXqVGtxFppQ

Kernow Damo – https://youtu.be/eedogABKFec

Also LBC and the BBC.


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BBC besieged – over support for TORIES

“Blatantly Backing Conservatives”: the malady seems to have spread from BBC news and is now affecting all its departments. But can the Corporation bow to public demand and restore its tattered claim to impartiality?

Who would have thought that one little tweet would rock the world’s biggest public service broadcaster to its foundations?

That’s what Gary Lineker seems to have done with this message:

He was referring, of course, to the language used by Suella Braverman when she introduced her silly Illegal Migration Bill to Parliament last week – and he was right.

Subsequently, we learned that the measures in the Bill, and the language around it, would be more appropriately compared to the UK’s own treatment of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s – politicians of that time sent more than half a million back to Europe where an unknown number ended up being killed in extermination camps as part of the Holocaust.

Everybody should think very hard about that – and about the way politicians in both the Conservative Party and Labour condemned Mr Lineker and denied that the current Bill, or the way it was described, bore any resemblance to what happened in the 1930s.

The BBC reacted to Tory pressure the way it usually does – it caved in.

Mr Lineker was removed from his position as host of Match of the Day – and the Corporation lied about the circumstances. First we were told he was “stepping back” voluntarily until he could reach an agreement with the BBC over how he conducts himself on a social media account that is nothing to do with his employment and over which his employers should have no influence at all. Then we found out that he had been forced out.

And then the effluent hit the air conditioner.

Mr Lineker’s co-presenters on MOTD walked out in solidarity with him and everyone asked to be a possible stand-in host refused on principle.

Now, we are learning that sports coverage at the Beeb is suffering even more:

And the backlash has spread into other parts of the BBC.

  • Question Time, which actually discussed both the Illegal Migration Bill and Mr Lineker’s tweet about it, has come under fire after host Fiona Bruce played down the significance of Stanley Johnson beating his wife, in a discussion of his son Boris’s nomination of that man for a knighthood.

Here’s what she said (with apologies for the strong language used by the person tweeting it):

The charity Refuge, which supports women and children who are victims of domestic abuse – and for whom Ms Bruce is an ambassador, made its position abundantly clear:

“Domestic abuse is never a ‘one off’, it is a pattern of behaviour that can manifest in a number of ways, including physical abuse. Domestic abuse is never acceptable.”

In a parallel with the BBC’s treatment of Mr Lineker, the charity said it had also been in talks with Ms Bruce: “She is appalled that any of her words have been understood as her minimising domestic violence. We know she is deeply upset that this has been triggering for survivors.

“Like the host of any BBC programme, when serious on-air allegations are made about someone, Fiona is obliged to put forward a right of reply from that person or their representatives, and that was what happened last night. These are not in any way Fiona’s own views about the situation.

“Fiona is deeply sorry that last night’s programme has distressed survivors of domestic abuse. Refuge stands by her and all survivors today.”

Sadly, the BBC did not see fit to support the charity’s assertion that Ms Bruce was “appalled” and “deeply sorry” for “triggering” and having “distressed” survivors.

Instead, it merely defended what happened on the programme: “When serious allegations are made on air against people or organisations, it is the job of BBC presenters to ensure that the context of those allegations – and any right of reply from the person or organisation – is given to the audience, and this is what Fiona Bruce was doing last night. She was not expressing any personal opinion about the situation.”

Not good enough.

  • A BBC decision not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s new series Wild Isles for fear that its its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the right wing press has provoked a huge backlash – not just from environmental groups but, again, from within the Corporation itself.

The sixth episode will appear only on BBC iPlayer. All six episodes were narrated by Attenborough, and made by the production company Silverback Films, which was responsible for previous series including Our Planet.

Chris Packham, presenter of Springwatch, told The Guardian: “At this time, in our fight to save the world’s biodiversity, it is irresponsible not to put that at the forefront of wildlife broadcasting.”

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: “For the BBC to censor of one of the nation’s most informed and trusted voices on the nature and climate emergencies is nothing short of an unforgivable dereliction of its duty to public service broadcasting. This government has taken a wrecking ball to our environment – putting over 1,700 pieces of environmental legislation at risk, setting an air pollution target which is a decade too late, and neglecting the scandal of our sewage-filled waterways – which cannot go unexamined and unchallenged by the public.”

The Guardian added that “senior sources at the BBC [said] that the decision not to show the sixth episode was made to fend off potential critique from the political right.

Again, the BBC’s response was cowardly. The broadcaster claimed the six-part series was only ever intended to have five episodes: “Wild Isles is – and always was – a five part series and does not shy away from environmental content. We have acquired a separate film for iPlayer from the RSPB and WWF and Silverback Films about people working to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the British Isles.”

If this sixth film is part of a package of such films – a series, if you will – all made by the same organisations and narrated by the same person, and all to be available together on iPlayer, then it seems clear that it is an episode of that series and the BBC is again being economical with the truth.

This behaviour – and the decision over Mr Lineker – drew the following comment from economist Richard Murphy;

He’s right, isn’t he?

  • Finally (for now), the BBC has faced a backlash against its continued employment of Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, whose own political tweets – particularly attacking former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – have gone unquestioned by the Corporation.

Here’s an example:

Mr Corbyn found an unlikely defender – on a BBC news programme – in Alastair Campbell. And the former New Labour press secretary didn’t pull his punches when referring to any of the scandals mentioned above:

I’m aware that Campbell himself is a controversial figure but he’s absolutely right here.

The BBC is in serious trouble over these politically-motivated decisions. Its claim of political impartiality lies in tatters.

The only way out is to apologise and reform.

But, as Beth Rigby stated above, when crises blow up like this, climbdowns become very hard to do.

What next?


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Question Time audience member explains Tory immigration policy

Who is this audience member from the BBC’s Question Time on March 9, 2023?

He explained the reasons behind the Conservative government’s Illegal Migration Bill in highly perceptive terms; anybody could see the truth behind his words:

Someone should sign him up for their political party and get him to contest a Parliamentary seat at the next election.


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Braverman’s migration failures: highest-ever number enter UK despite her closure of legal routes

Speechless: challenged to explain how a teenage refugee from an African country might legally gain asylum in the UK, Suella Braverman had nothing to say.

More than half a million people entered the UK from abroad in the year to the end of June – and Home Secretary Suella Braverman had a meltdown in a Parliamentary Committee when she was forced to try to explain the legal routes for refugees to do so.

So the highest annual migration into the UK since World War II has happened at a time when it should be impossible.

Here’s a news report:

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has said that his main priority is to help Home Secretary Suella Braverman stem the flow of migrants into the UK (despite the fact that they are both, themselves, from families that migrated into the UK).

But they also want to present the UK as a welcoming place.

The latter objective was blown to dust – by one of Sunak and Braverman’s own Conservative Party, Tim Loughton, in the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee, when he asked her a simple question.

The best commentary on it that I have found comes from Novara Media:

This is a government that is trying to do two mutually-exclusive things – and failing at both.

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